Jeremy lives in a small community where winters are long and stray dogs roam the streets. When peer pressure leads Jeremy into a bad prank, he is immediately struck with guilt - and that's when Jeremy's life changes forever. Trying to...
Teenage Boys
- Author:Körner, MiriamSummary:
- Author:Sauder, B.L.Summary:
Hong Mei and her single mother have had to move from town to town in modern China – as soon as townsfolk get suspicious that her mother's magical healing powers are, in fact, truly magical, they move on, usually in the middle of the...
- Author:Robinson, EdenSummary:
In an effort to keep all forms of magic at bay, Jared, 17, has quit drugs and drinking. But his troubles are not over: now he's being stalked by David, his mom's ex--a preppy, khaki-wearing psycho with a proclivity for rib-breaking. And...
- Author:Slade, Arthur G.Summary:
For Percy, the loss of his father and the suicide of his best friend build to a head during the last week before high school graduation.
- Author:Laine, SusanSummary:
Bro Sumner loves his girlfriend, Lacey Adair, who underneath her pretty dress is, in fact, a boy, and she loves him right back. They are an exclusive item in high school, but they face some dangerous opposition, including a bullying...
- Author:Skuy, DavidSummary:
Cody is no longer the kid with cancer, or the soccer player always sitting on the bench as a substitute. But just when he is getting used to being the striker on the Lions soccer team, as well as being friends with his teammates and a...
- Author:Karp, LarrySummary:
Brun Campbell, a 15-year-old piano-playing fool, hears Scott Joplin’s “Maple Leaf Rag” played one 1898 afternoon in Oklahoma City. It’s destiny calling. Asking for ragtime lessons, he’s told, “No, Ragtime is colored music.” So Brun runs...
- Author:Tomas, G.L.Summary:
Sterling Wayfairer has one goal for his senior year: make his mark. He’s been slipping into the background his whole high school career—distracted by his mother’s mental health, unsettled by the vivid dreams that haunt him at night, and...
- Author:French, GillianSummary:
With shades of E. Lockhart's We Were Liars, this dark and twisted mystery by the highly acclaimed author of Grit will be the page-turner of the year. Everyone in Tenney's Harbor knows about the Garrison tragedy. How an unexplained fire...
- Author:McMurtry, LarrySummary:
An almost-true story about a small town in Texas that ought to exist if it doesn't, with characters like Sam the Lion, the delectable Jacy, and Ruth Popper, the coach's wife.
- Author:Sweany, BrianSummary:
Hank Fitzpatrick stumbles through and beyond adolescence in the late 1980s. Hypersexual, drunk, stoned, occasionally Catholic, accidentally well-intentioned--Hank doesn't know it yet, but his life is about to implode in spectacular...
- Author:Colford, Ian.Summary:
"Enrique Tom's lives a quiet life with a large, loving family in an unnamed South American country. But Enrique has secrets. When his second eldest son, Hector, and Hector's beloved friend Nadia uncover one of Enrique...
- Author:Guest, JacquelineSummary:
It's 1943 and World War II is raging. 15-year-old Robert Tourond is safe at home in Calgary, but his three brothers are all overseas, fighting the Nazis. A dreamer, Robert closely follows the exploits of his three favourite comic book...
- Author:Olmstead, RobertSummary:
Set in 1950, this novel follows Henry, a marine who arrives in Korea just before the devastating Chosin Reservoir battle. Days of brutal fighting leave Henry forever haunted by what he's seen, but the true depth of his scars doesn...
- Author:Runyon, BrentSummary:
Fearing expulsion and parental disapproval after lighting a shirt on fire at his school, Brent goes home, soaks his bathrobe with gasoline, steps into his shower, and strikes a match. Suffering horrific burns, Brent faces a long,...
- Author:Edgerton, ClydeSummary:
Preston Clearwater is scoring cash working a car-theft ring in post-World War II North Carolina. When he picks up 19-year-old Bible salesman Henry Dampier, Preston convinces the kid that he's an FBI spy. And before Henry knows what...
- Author:Skuy, DavidSummary:
Even though Cody's health is better and he's won a spot on the Lions soccer team, life is still complicated when plans to build a factory nearby means that his soccer team is divided between those who want the factory because of the...
- Author:Strube, CordeliaSummary:
Greer Pentland is having a challenging year. Her teenaged son, Sam, is on trial for the murder of two senior citizens, a crime allegedly committed while he was sleepwalking. Greer is also battling breast cancer, a disease that has left...
- Author:Maharaj, RabindranathSummary:
Both familiar and strange, this story of a large Canadian city seen through the wide eyes of a naive and inexperienced young immigrant - wise in the culture of comic books - is both hilarious and heartbreaking. Samuel is just 17 when...
- Author:TAYLOR, WilliamSummary:
n his sixth form year, Matthew 'Spider' Trent must make decisions regarding his future with little guidance from his family, but the opportunity to enter a piano competition gives him a focus and provides the direction he...