The 6 Most Important Decisions You’ll Ever Make Sean Covey Self Help Sean Covey helps teens figure out how to approach the six major challenges they face: gaining self-esteem, dealing with their parents, making friends, being wise about sex, coping…
Sweetgrass Jan Hudson Ages 10-15 Living on the western Canadian prairie in the nineteenth century, Sweetgrass, a fifteen-year-old Blackfoot Indian girl, saves her family from a smallpox epidemic and proves her maturity to her father.
Our Town Thorton Wilder Plays Our Town explores the relationship between two young neighbors, George Gibbs and Emily Webb, whose childhood friendship blossoms into romance, and then culminates in marriage. When Emily loses her life during childbirth, the circle of life…
Of Two Minds Carol Matas & Perry Nodelman Fantasy “Changing the world was impossible. Creating another one was worse. And escape was out. She was trapped.” A collaboration between acclaimed writers Carol Matas and Perry Nodelman, this roller coaster of…
Nothing To Fear Jackie French Koller Ages 10-13 Thirteen-year-old Danny and his family are struggling to make ends meet in New York during the Great Depression. His father leaves to search for work, and Danny and his mother do what…
Love & Luck Jenna Evans Welch Ages 12+ Addie is visiting Ireland for her aunt’s over-the-top destination wedding and hoping she can stop thinking about the one thing she did that left her miserable and heartbroken—and threatens her future. But…
Lord of the Flies William Golding Dystopia As provocative today as when it was first published in 1954, Lord of the Flies continues to ignite passionate debate with its startling, brutal portrait of human nature. William Golding’s compelling story about…
I’m Afraid You’ve Got Dragons Peter S. Beagle Fantasy Dragons are common in the backwater kingdom of Bellemontagne, coming in sizes from mouse-like vermin all the way up to castle-smashing monsters. Gaius Aurelius Constantine Heliogabalus Thrax (who would much rather…
I Must Betray You Ruta Sepetys Ages 12-17 Romania, 1989. Communist regimes are crumbling across Europe. Seventeen-year-old Cristian Florescu dreams of becoming a writer, but Romanians aren’t free to dream; they are bound by rules and force. Amidst the tyrannical…
Hollow City The Second Novel of Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children Ages 12+ Having escaped Miss Peregrine’s island by the skin of their teeth, Jacob and the rest of the peculiar children are fleeing the malevolent wights following them. Miss Peregrine…