Topical/Coming of Age
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…and Now Miguel: A Newbery Award Winner
$10.99 Add to cartHe wanted to be treated like a man, not a child.
Every summer the men of the Chavez family go on a long and difficult sheep drive to the mountains. All the men, that is, except for Miguel. All year lon
- Author: Krumgold, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 04 1984
- ISBN10: 006440143X
- Language: English
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Elsewhere
$26.99 Read moreRichly emotive and darkly captivating, with elements of Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” and the imaginative depth of Margaret Atwood, Elsewhere by Alexis Schaitkin conjures a community in which girls
- Author: Schaitkin, Alexis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 28 2022
- ISBN10: 1250219639
- Language: English
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Esther’s Notebooks
$30.00 Read moreThe author of The Arab of the Future chronicles the hilarious and heartbreaking true life of a young girl growing up in Paris.
“Funny, well-observed…contains immense daring and depth…Sattouf has d- Series: Pantheon Graphic Library
- Author: Sattouf, Riad
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: January 24 2023
- ISBN10: 0593316924
- Language: English
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Child of the Owl: Golden Mountain Chronicles: 1965
$9.99 Add to cartTwelve-year-old Casey is waiting for the day that Barney, her father, hits it big — ’cause when that horse comes in, he tells her, it’s the penthouse suite. But then hr ends up in the hospital, and C… [more below]
- Series: Golden Mountain Chronicles
- Author: Yep, Laurence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 08 2001
- ISBN10: 006440336X
- Language: English
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17 Things I’m Not Allowed to Do Anymore
$8.99 Read moreA laugh-out-loud look at all the fun things grown-ups never let you do . . . now in paperback Jenny Offill, author of 11 Experiments That Failed, describes how tough it is to be a kid, when even the… [more below]
- Author: Offill, Jenny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 13 2011
- ISBN10: 0375866019
- Language: English
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Bessie
$28.00 Read moreDrawing on biographical and historical sources, Bessie reimagines the early life of Bess Myerson-the talented daughter of poor Russian Jewish immigrants-who, in the bigoted milieu of 1945, remarkably … [more below]
- Author: Kass, Linda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1647425956
- Language: English
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Parenting a Teen Who Has Intense Emotions: DBT Skills to Help Your Teen Navigate Emotional and Behavioral Challenges
$21.95 Read moreParenting a teen with intense emotions can be extremely difficult. This much-needed book will give you the tools needed to help your teen regulate his or her emotions. In addition, you’ll learn the sk
- Author: Harvey, Pat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 01 2015
- ISBN10: 1626251886
- Language: English
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
$9.99 Read moreWith an Introduction and Notes by Dr. Jacqueline Belanger, University of Cardiff.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man represents the transitional stage between the realism of Joyce’s Dubliners and
- Series: Wordsworth Classics
- Author: Joyce, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 05 1992
- ISBN10: 1853260061
- Language: English
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Crónicas de una Vida Muy Poco Glamorosa = Dork Diaries 1
$15.95 Add to cartNikki Maxwell est? comenzando el octavo grado en una nueva escuela, y su primer diario est? repleto de historias divertidas.
Primer volumen de la serie «Diario de una Dork , el diario en el que N… [more below]- Series: Diario de una Dork #1
- Author: Russell, Rachel Renée
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 26 2022
- ISBN10: 1644735229
- Language: Spanish
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Dogs of Summer
$23.00 Read more“[A] firecracker of a debut.”
“Andrea Abreu’s debut novel about two girls in the summer heat of Tenerife is perfect for these dog days.”
—The New York Times
—Shreya Chattopadhyay, The New York Times B- Author: Abreu, Andrea
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 02 2022
- ISBN10: 166260159X
- Language: English
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Jacob Have I Loved: A Newbery Award Winner
$10.99 Add to cartKatherine Paterson’s remarkable Newbery Medal-winning classic about a painful sibling rivalry, and one sister’s struggle to make her own way, is an honest and daring portrayal of adolescence and comin
- Author: Paterson, Katherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 05 2020
- ISBN10: 0064403688
- Language: English
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Middle School’s a Drag, You Better Werk!
$16.99 Read moreIn this heartfelt and hilarious new novel from Greg Howard, an enterprising boy starts his own junior talent agency and signs a thirteen-year-old aspiring drag queen as his first client.
Twelve-year-o- Author: Howard, Greg
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 11 2020
- ISBN10: 0525517529
- Language: English
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The Overachievers: The Secret Lives of Driven Kids
$21.99 Read moreThe bestselling author of Pledged and The Teachers returns with a groundbreaking look at the pressure to achieve faced by America’s teens
In Pledged, Alexandra Robbins followed four college girls to- Author: Robbins, Alexandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 07 2007
- ISBN10: 140130902X
- Language: English
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Bad Girls
$24.00 Read moreLonglisted for the Dublin Literary Award
Gritty and unflinching, yet also tender, fantastical, and funny, a trans woman’s tale about finding a community on the margins. In Sarmiento Park, the green h- Author: Villada, Camila
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 1635422027
- Language: English
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Queen of Clubs
$18.99 Read more- Series: The Queen of Thieves #2
- Author: Marsh, Beezy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0063342715
- Language: English
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The Juvie Three
$8.99 Add to cartGecko Fosse drove the getaway car. Terence Florian ran with the worst gang in Chicago. Arjay Moran killed someone.
All three boys are serving time in juvenile detention centers until they get a second- Author: Korman, Gordon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 03 2017
- ISBN10: 1484798430
- Language: English
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Lu
$17.99 Add to cartLu must learn to leave his ego on the sidelines if he wants to finally connect with others in the climax to the New York Times bestselling and award-winning Track series from Jason Reynolds.
Lu was b- Series: Track #4
- Author: Reynolds, Jason
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 23 2018
- ISBN10: 1481450247
- Language: English
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Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance
$26.99 Read moreNamed a Best Book of 2022 by NPR and The Chicago Tribune
From Alison Espach, author of the New York Times Editors’ Choice novel The Adults, comes a dazzlingly unconventional love story for readers of A- Author: Espach, Alison
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 17 2022
- ISBN10: 1250823145
- Language: English
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Other Voices, Other Rooms
$17.00 Add to cartTruman Capote’s first novel is a story of almost supernatural intensity and inventiveness, an audacious foray into the mind of a sensitive boy as he seeks out the grown-up enigmas of love and death in… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Capote, Truman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0679745645
- Language: English
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Chasing the Spotlight
$16.99 Add to cartChasing the Spotlight is the fourth book in a series that travels alongside four friends as they deal with teen life in Riverbend, Indiana. The novel inspires girls and young women to deepen their rel… [more below]
- Series: Riverbend Friends #4
- Author: Sumpolec, Sarah Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 17 2021
- ISBN10: 1589976509
- Language: English
