The Way It Is
Fifteen-year-old Ellen Manery discovers that a small town in the 1960s is not the easiest place for a girl who wants to be a doctor. When she falls in love with an Indian boy life gets even more complicated.
Cellular
When Brendan is diagnosed with leukemia his life is turned upside down. With a smothering family and distant friends, all seems hopeless until he meets Lark, terminally ill yet full of life.
Knifepoint
Jill is enduring a brutal summer job on a mountain ranch, guiding wannabe-cowboys on trail rides. On a solo ride with a handsome stranger she ends up in a fight for her life with no one to help her.
Masked
Rosie walks in on an armed robbery in her father's convenience store. Who is the masked man? And why does she think she knows him?
The Way It Works
A young biracial man, who suddenly finds himself homeless, struggles to maintain his dignity and to make his own place in the world.
Fly Away
Marnie is forced into a leadership role on her competitive cheerleading team, but it's harder than she imagined to keep the Soar Starlings-and herself-aloft.
Squeeze
On a caving trip with his older brother, Byron discovers a new cave but has to make some life-or-death decisions when his brother is seriously injured.
Roxy
Trying to get to grips with her own terrible secret, Roxy sets about unraveling the mysteries that enshroud her family history.
Henry Chow and other stories
An anthology of short contemporary fiction by emerging writers and established authors.
Flying Feet
Jinho wants respect for his skill at tae kwon do, but when he meets an unscrupulous mixed martial arts trainer, he turns his back on his sport's code of honor.
The Barrio Kings
Rosario Gomez struggles to stay out of the gang life that killed his brother while finishing his high school diploma and preparing for the birth of his first son. But when his old friend Juan gets out of jail, his past returns to haunt him.
Plastic
Trying to save his best friend from the horrors of plastic surgery, Jack ends up on the front line of a protest about unscrupulous surgeons.
The Middle of Everywhere
Noah spends a school term in George River, in Quebec's far north, trying to understand the Inuit culture, which he finds both threatening and puzzling.
Hannah's Touch
After being stung by a bee, sixteen-year-old Hannah discovers she has the power to heal.
Razor's Edge
Travis and his friends train and race horses at a harness-racing track. When someone starts hacking off the horses' tails, Travis must solve the mystery before he loses everything he has worked for.
Oil King Courage
When a pond-hockey tournament takes Gear and his best friend Reuben to communities across the Arctic, Gear helps his friend solve a family mystery and connect to his Inuit heritage.
In the Woods
After Cameron rescues a baby abandoned in the woods, he tries to discover whether his sister is the mother.
thinandbeautiful.com
Maddie finds a dangerous "thinspiration" online after she becomes addicted to pro-anorexia websites and develops an eating disorder.
