Kategoria BISAC: Young Adult Fiction >> Social Themes - New Experience

Two sisters, Jeannie and Sarah, tell their separate yet tightly interwoven stories in alternating narrative poems. Each sister - Jeannie, who leaves Scotland during the Highland Clearances with her father, mother, and the younger children, and Sarah, who hides so she can stay behind with her grandmother - carries a length of the other's hair braided with her own. The braid binds them together when they are worlds apart and reminds them of who they used to be before they were evicted from the Western Isles, where their family had lived for many generations.

The award-winning poet...

Gary Schmidt's First Boy fast-paced political thriller will have the reader turning the pages in anticipation of the next clue.

"You're my first boy, Cooper, my first boy," grandfather says just before he dies. All alone in the world, without even a dog, the only thing that keeps Cooper going is running the dairy farm.

Suddenly, black sedans are swarming all around Cooper's small New Hampshire town, driven by mysterious men in dark suits. Cooper's barn is burned to the ground, and his house is broken into and searched during the night. The President of the United...

See the world as you've never seen it before: through eyes and "eyelights."

The Adventures of Sylvie Sedan alternates between two unique points-of-view, car and human. Welcome to a world where cars and humans can communicate with each other Sylvie Sedan and her running buddy, Ginger, must overcome many obstacles before passing the Oklahoma drive test. Sylvie calls upon her car friend Summer Sky to help revive Ginger's love for driving during a New York City vacation, but she doesn't realize that the Worldwide Wheels and Vehicles Association simultaneously puts pressure on...

For Penny Lee high school was a total nonevent. Her friends were okay, her grades were fine, and while she somehow managed to land a boyfriend, he doesn't actually know anything about her. When Penny heads to college in Austin, Texas, to learn how to become a writer, it's seventy-nine miles and a zillion light years away from everything she can't wait to leave behind.

Sam's stuck....