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Your Own, Sylvia

A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath

by Hemphill, Stephanie

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Street Love

by Myers, Walter Dean

This story told in free verse is set against a background of street gangs and poverty in Harlem in which seventeen-year-old African American Damien takes a bol...

Trigger

by Vaught, Susan

Jersey Hatch can’t remember if he rammed the car into his parents’ house. He can’t remember why his best friend won’t speak to him. He can’t remember...

White Time

by Lanagan, Margo

Presents ten short stories, both dark and hopeful, that journey into the past, the future, and altered versions of the present.

Notes from the Midnight Driver

by Sonnenblick, Jordan

After being assigned to perform community service at a nursing home, sixteen-year-old Alex befriends a cantankerous old man who has some lessons to impart abou...

Full Service

by Weaver, Will

In the summer of 1965, teenager Paul Sutton, a northern Minnesota farm boy, takes a job at a gas station in town, where his strict religious upbringing is chal...

Boris

by Rylant, Cynthia

A series of poems describes a pet cat, Boris, and the companionship between Boris and his owner.

Montmorency on the Rocks

Doctor, Aristocrat, Murderer?

by Updale, Eleanor

In Victorian London, when Montmorency and his alter ego, Scarper, reunite with Dr. Farcett, the two cooperate to capture a bomber and become involved in solvin...

Talk

by Koja, Kathe

Hoping to escape from himself for awhile, Kit auditions for a controversial school play and discovers his talent for acting, struggles with coming out, and bot...

Finding Grace

by Brugman, Alyssa

Undecided about her future after graduating from high school, an Australian girl takes a job caring for a brain-damaged woman. RACHEL HAS JUST graduated from h...