Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Bullying, violence, abuse and peer pressure

With queen bees, drama queens and cliquey teens girl friendships can be tough!

Difference is everywhere, just look and see.

'They tried to make me go to my sister's funeral today.

An awkward but handsome fifteen-year-old, Donnie Darning has a brilliant mind but a dysfunctional family.

Fearing to make a sound that would attract attention and perhaps prevent his escape, Kris sits in the dark on the edge of his perfectly made bed.

Wesley Hanson, an uninspired senior at Renton High School in Riverview, is attacked and badly beaten by a boy named B.

The Odd Squad are back!

A plane crashes on a desert island and the only survivors, a group of schoolboys, assemble on the beach and wait to be rescued.

It's tough being the new kid.

Sixteen-year-old Sarah Meadows longs for "e;normal.

When high school senior Noah Gallagher and his adopted teenage sister, Lo, go to live with their grandmother in her island cottage for the summer, they dont expect much in the way of adventure.

A New York Times Bestseller Nicolette's awful stepsisters call her ';Mechanica' to demean her, but the nickname fits: she learned to be an inventor at her mother's knee.

The shrinkadinks think I have a screw loose.

After parting ways with her troubled mermaid tribe, Luce just wants to live peacefully on her own.

Based on an actual crime in 1955, this YA novel is at once a mystery and a coming-of-age story.

Twelve-year-old June Farrell is sure of one thingshes great at making piesand she plans to prove it by winning a blue ribbon in the Champlain Valley Fair pie competition.

A story about small acts of courage from the author of A Crooked Kind of Perfect.

Fourteen-year-old Luce has had a tough life, but she reaches the depths of despair when she is assaulted and left on the cliffs outside of a grim, gray Alaskan fishing village.

Cara has never been one of those girls: confident, self-possessed, and always ready with the perfect thing to say.

Gordy couldn't be more unhappy about moving back to his hometown of College Hill, where everybody knows his family's troubled history.

In 1944, when her brother is overseas fighting in World War II, eleven-year-old Margaret changes her mind about the school bully, Gordy, after she discovers he is hiding his own brother, a deserter.

At Penford High School, Brittany Taylor is the queen bee.

Mermaids have been sinking ships and drowning humans for centuries, and now the government is determined to put an end to the mermaid problemby slaughtering all of them.

Chris Creed grew up as the class freakthe bullies' punching bag.

Roberta Ritter has been waiting for a knight in shining armor for most of her humdrum life.

The award-winning author Scott O'Dell brings Sacagawea's story to life, giving us a breathtaking account of this young heroine's role in an American saga.

In Lois Lowrys Newbery Medalwinning classic, twelve-year-old Jonas lives in a seemingly ideal world.

From the author of Gym Candy comes a novel of football and bullying, finding friends and finding courage.

Mercer Buddie wants two things in this world: a girlfriend and the chance to prove to his master falconer father that he's not a flake.

Fifteen-year-old Shay Summers is trying to cope with the death of her father, being overweight, and threats from a girl bully in school.

Stay on the roads.

There are two sides to every story.

No one is kind to sixth-grader Brendan Doyle: his foster mother, his teachers, his classmates, and especially the thugs who bully him.

Art, mystery, fun and friendship,combine in thisillustrated middle grade seriesdebut.

Seventeen year-old dirt-bike-riding daredevil Arlo Santiago catches the eye of the U.

What will Nikki and Deja do when their beloved teacher is out and a clueless substitute takes her place?

The only thing more dangerous than a king is his heir in this first English translation of the romantic tragedy that inspired the popular TV series from one of China's best-known authors of heartbreakperfect for readers of Captive Prince and Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation.