No More No Name
A Choctaw teen, aspiring to be a basketball star, must deal with his father's alcoholism.
Buried Words
Molly Applebaum’s courageous words, written fifty years apart, offer a fascinating reflection on both her wartime experiences and her post-war life.
Capelin Weather
A young girl is eager for the rain, drizzle, and fog of spring to end and the fun of summer to begin.
How Do I Get Them to Write?
Explore the reading-writing connection using freewriting and mentor texts to motivate and empower students.
Silent Refuge
"News travels fast in the countryside, and when I started school many of the villagers knew that we were Jewish, although they really did not know what that meant."
Six Lost Years
"How much longer could we last?" sixteen-year-old Amek Adler laments, after arriving at yet one more concentration camp in the spring of 1945.
A Childhood Adrift
An eloquent personal narrative detailed with historical research and commentary, A Childhood Adrift explores identity, closure, disillusionment and the anguish of silenced emotions.
Wild Woman Alphabet
A quirky ABC children's title with Indigenous themes and images in the text and collaged illustrations.
The Darkhouse
In this novel for teens, a girl discovers that her father's amateur science experiments have sinister goals.
Undiscovered Country
Cat’s life is divided. Before her mom died, she had happiness and purpose. Now, everything seems meaningless. When Cat finds a volunteer program that will send her to South America, she thinks she can escape from her grief. But life as a “voluntourist” is not an escape, and the new people and places Cat meets bring challenges she never expected.
Hand Over Hand
Nina finally convinces her grandfather to let her go fishing with him and surprises her whole village by bringing in the biggest catch of the day.
Where Will I Live?
Young refugees on the move have little left except questions. But despite their uncertainty they still find time to laugh and play, and they still have hope.
Shu-Li and the Magic Pear Tree
This early chapter book tells the story of a young girl settling into a new neighborhood.
Breaking Faith
Faith’s story starts before drugs. Before her family falls apart. Before she becomes consumed by the need to “chase the dragon,” the heroin addiction that keeps the Darkness at bay, but leads her to live on the street. The determination to find love and comfort that lures Faith to drugs is the same stubborn force that can drive her to recover.
Saying Good-bye to London
Francis is a shy 15-year-old when he meets confident, 16-year-old Sawyer. Sparks fly, and Sawyer gets pregnant. Francis has a lot of growing up to do, and it seems like he's being forced to do it all at once. Sawyer decides to give the baby up for adoption, but that’s just the start. Where will they be when it’s time to say good-bye to baby London?
Keep Growing
How to encourage students to persevere, overcome setbacks, and develop a growth mindset.
A Month of Mondays
Suze struggles with her mom coming back into her life after ten years, and a new pressure to do well at school.
Gone to Pot
A flat broke grandma puts her green thumb to good – if not quite legal – use in the story of Jess, who's search for a new income leads her to the world of growing pot, a journey that comes with some surprising revelations about herself, the people she comes to meet, and the people she thought she knew all along.
