Kategoria BISAC: Juvenile Fiction >> Social Themes - Adolescence & Coming of Age

Duncan Pike is the "FORTY-EIGHT HOUR KID " This is a powerful book for middle school/intermediate school students. Duncan is confronted with the many issues and conflicts of a young teen (bullying included) and goes to a source most kids these days use as a last - not a first resource to find help. The book chronicles the events of a school year with all the things that challenge a young teen: Bullying, Peer relationships, Illness, of a parent, relationships with handicapped students, dealing with change, academic stress - and a host of other typical teen "adventures." MUST READING FOR MIDDLE...

Not known to young Jake McGee, a pact with God might have caused his grandfather to mysteriously disappear while he hiked alone in the PA State Game Lands near his home. Search teams found nothing. All of the McGee family eventually resigned itself to life without Gramps...everyone except seven-year-old Jake. Straight through his MIDDLE SCHOOL years he covertly searched for the answers he needed. When he discovered his Grandmother McGee was TELEPATHIC, and when he discovered the girl next door was more than just a girl, his middle school years kicked into a higher gear. Rabbit Trails is a...

Evelynn Faust suffers from horrible insomnia and paranoia. The summer before her senior year of high school should be one of the best summers of her life. But she's tormented by guilt and an addiction that haunts her every waking moment. Evelynn is a drug dealer who also craves the drug she sells. The money and the popularity that come with it aren't bad either. But when she's caught dealing on school property by Eric Wagner, the respected and admired police chief's son, the game is over. He won't snitch on her, unless she gives him whatever he wants - her. She's being blackmailed. Evelynn...

Que motivos tiene Julian para odiar a August? Sera capaz de asumir sus errores y empezar de nuevo?
WONDER. La leccion de August ha recordado a miles de lectores la importancia de ser amable. Pero este no es un libro sobre August, un nino que quiere ser normal a pesar de su aspecto.
Esta es la historia de Julian, el nino que peor se porta con el. No soporta verlo, no soporta que sea amigo de Jack, no soporta que este en su colegio... y no es capaz de darse cuenta del impacto que sus actos pueden tener en los demas.
Provocadora, sorprendente y emotiva, La historia de Julian...

"Tenderly and courageously told, "Gracefully Grayson" is a small miracle of a book. Its story is so compelling I found myself holding my breath as I read it and so intimate I felt as if what was happening to Grayson was happening to me. Thank you, Ami Polonsky, for creating this memorable character who will open hearts and minds and very possibly be the miracle that changes lives." -James Howe, award-winning and best-selling author of "The Misfits"
"What if who you are on the outside doesn't match who you are on the inside? "
Grayson Sender has been holding onto a secret for what...

JoJo and Sam have been best friends since he moved in next door to her when they were five years old. JoJo has always liked the ways Sam is different from other boys, but now that they're both 14, he's changing in ways she's not so sure she likes. Just when she thinks she's getting used to his new muscles and the way other girls are looking at him, she sees the bruises on his back and knows his step-father is beating him. JoJo tries to get Sam to leave, but he says he can't desert his mom and step-sister. He makes JoJo promise not to tell anyone because he'll be sent away to live with his...

Being sixteen is hard enough without Elin Skye pretending to be a new person over and over again. On the run with her mom from a psycho stepdad, who happens to be a deputy sheriff, her life sucks. She's determined to sever Wyatt's hold on them even if it means breaking all the rules. Sawyer Knight's summer is doomed when he's unjustly grounded and must stay with his pain in the ass older brother to earn back his parents' trust. Things start turning around when he meets a pretty but odd girl trying to kill a vending machine. After Sawyer learns the truth about Elin he has to help her no matter...

Tommy's Road to a Bright Future Takes a Tragic Detour... Tommy Greene has everything going for him: he's the smartest kid in his class, a talented basketball player, responsible, loving, and kind. He adores his younger brother Ralphy, and he does everything he can to make life easier for his mother, struggling to make ends meet after she is abandoned by the boys' father. Tommy's mother isn't around as much as she would like to be, and she isn't aware of the pressure suddenly put on Tommy to become a juvenile drug-seller for Nate, the terrifying heroin dealer. Through circumstances out of his...

Originally titled CHASING THE SKIP, Janci Patterson's debut novel has earned praise from Booklist -"realistic, flawed, and dimensional characters"-Kirkus Reviews-"A solid cast and heartfelt emotions"- #NYT Bestseller Charlaine Harris-"a book I could recommend to almost any teenager,"- and STEELHEART author Brandon Sanderson-a YA book with excellent writing and compelling characters."

For fifteen-year-old Ricki, there's only one thing to know about her bounty-hunter dad: he's never been there for her. But when her mother leaves, Dad suddenly appears and pulls her along on the road, hunting...

A radiant story of first love and self-acceptance for fans of John Green, Jandy Nelson, and Rainbow Rowell "Maybe we weren't meant to collide. Maybe we were meant to explode." As a closeted teenager in the Deep South with a holy-roller father and the scars to prove it, bookworm Cole Furman has resigned himself to experiencing life and love only within the pages of his favorite novels. But after Nick Flores seems to walk off a page and starts to rewrite his story, Cole finds his dreams spinning into a dazzling - and complicated - reality. If you have ever found yourself on the wild breathless...

The hero is Paco Jones, a biracial Mexican kid with few friends. He's recently transferred from his old junior high to a private school, and because he's the poor new kid, he soon finds himself the least popular. He's jeered at during lunch, called Paco Taco, and ridiculed for being different. So what hope is there for him when he falls for Naomi Fox, a popular girl already involved with a popular guy? Through dumb luck and a few clever moves, Paco soon finds himself on center stage amidst a twisted middle school mess.

Everything in seventeen year old Joanna's life seemed to be going her way: an honor roll student, living in a penthouse with her brother in Toronto, and some new friends who are looking out for her. So how did she go from having the perfect teenage life one night, to sitting on the floor of a local jail cell the next? As she reflects back on the past year, she wonders if she'll ever be able to go back to how things were with her brother and her friends, or will she be spending many more nights like this one, alone on the floor of a jail cell just wishing she could go back and change the one...

Seventeen-year-old Lucas Duff has absolutely nothing.

To the rest of the world, he is the bad boy and a lost cause with a fatal case of apathy. His whole family is dead. His definition of love is closer to lust; his heart was broken and repairing it took too much effort when he knew it would just get smashed like it had previously. Desperate to feel something, he grasps at anything that offers even the slightest hint of reprieve from his boredom.

With nowhere else to go, his options are limited, and now he's trapped in Seattle's most feared gang-Seattle's Eyes. Stripped of...

Seventeen-year-old Lucas Duff has absolutely nothing.

To the rest of the world, he is the bad boy and a lost cause with a fatal case of apathy. His whole family is dead. His definition of love is closer to lust; his heart was broken and repairing it took too much effort when he knew it would just get smashed like it had previously. Desperate to feel something, he grasps at anything that offers even the slightest hint of reprieve from his boredom.

With nowhere else to go, his options are limited, and now he's trapped in Seattle's most feared gang-Seattle's Eyes. Stripped of...

This is a story about Addison Erhard, an affluent young seventeen-year old growing up in McLean, Virginia who feels pressured to be successful. She wants to be a journalist who makes an impact on the world, and wants to attend Columbia University. Her family is split in their support, the pressure in the community and from her father is to attend an Ivy League school, to become a successful lawyer, doctor, politician or banker; her father would like her to become a banker. Her mother, an artist who does not fit in with the McLean society as well as her father, supports her desire to follow...

Before. Miles "Pudge" Halter is done with his safe life at home. His whole life has been one big non-event, and his obsession with famous last words has only made him crave "the Great Perhaps" even more (Francois Rabelais, poet). He heads off to the sometimes crazy and anything-but-boring world of Culver Creek Boarding School, and his life becomes the opposite of safe. Because down the hall is Alaska Young. The gorgeous, clever, funny, sexy, self-destructive, screwed up, and utterly fascinating Alaska Young. She is an event unto herself. She pulls Pudge into her world, launches him into the...

Obsidian just wants to be invisible on her first day of her junior year. Things would be fine if she hadn't just switched high schools and moved back to her old house with her parent-chosen guardian, Mason. Steeped in discomfort after she lies to her teacher about her past, Obsidian quickly realizes that everything already seems to be going wrong--and it's just the first period.

Fellow classmates Damian and Car could not be more different. Damian is a jerk who is determined to get on Obsidian's black list. Car is a great guy who feels responsible for her obvious new...