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Young Romani teens, Saida and Nikola, dream of escaping from the harsh discrimination and crushing poverty of life in a squatter settlement in Belgrade, Serbia.
Young Romani teens, Saida and Nikola, dream of escaping from the harsh discrimination and crushing poverty of life in a squatter settlement in Belgrade, Serbia.
Science nerd Emma Sakamoto wants to reinvent herself. When a popular girl seeks Emma’s help getting a boy to like her, Emma applies scientific laws to a perplexing subject—boys. But do people conform to scientific principles? The results are unpredictable in this story about the struggle of fitting in and the complexity of friendship.
A story about a young refugee's courage and inner strength as she escapes from Vietnam during the war.
This gripping love story for teen readers is set in South Africa in 1976. Written from the points of view of four young people living in Johannesburg and its black township, this book explores the roots of the Soweto Uprising and the edifice of Apartheid in a South Africa about to explode.
An historical novel for teens based on events in the life of Caravaggio.
A mystery is solved by two teens, with a surprising outcome.
An adopted Native Canadian girl finds her birth father and the twin sister she never knew existed.
A young girl runs away from home and learns to live on the dangerous streets of a provincial city in Argentina.
Seventeen-year-old student reporter Sherri Richmond uncovers a terrible secret gripping the sleepy town of Lewton.
Bing's father is haunted by a ghost, and Bing must find out why or his father will die.
Another compelling mystery masterpiece for young readers, by the renowned Paul Yee.
This funny and endearing novel by award-winning novelist Glen Huser will make an absorbing read for fourteen- and fifteen-year-olds, boys and girls alike.
After Uter Pendragon kills her father, Morgan le Fay is exiled to Ireland where she learns the black arts of magic and sorcery.
An anthology of short contemporary fiction by emerging writers and established authors.
With purple hair and '90s retro clothes, Ash Perrault is a modern-day Cinderella, but she has a problem Cinderella didn't have—a dangerous problem that keeps getting worse.
This collection of interconnected short stories follows the lives of Chinese-Canadian teenagers—some locally born, some from Hong Kong, Taiwan and China—over one Toronto summer, giving a rare glimpse into the conflicted world of Chinese youth.