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Fifteen-year-old Kenna's story begins with her being "Baker Acted" into a 72-hour involuntary commitment into a mental hospital. She was...

When teenaged Molly steals a copy of Jane Eyre from the public library, she's assigned 50 hours of community service to repay her debt to...

When Arthur sees the neighborhood junk man walking down the street in his dead father's hat, he snaps. He throws a brick at the man and...

This novel alternates between present-day and 1921 Tulsa, Oklahoma. In present-day, teenage Rowan is living with her black mother and...

I finished this book two days ago and I still don't think I'm ready to write it up. It has quite an interesting premise: Every year,...

When Ophelia AKA Fella's Mama Lacy passed away from pancreatic cancer six months earlier, she was taken from the only family she'd known...

Loved it. Teens Violet and Finch meet on strange terms - atop the school's bell tower contemplating suicide. Finch talks Violet down, but...

I'm so thankful to have a kid in my life with whom I can enjoy children's literature like this. Beautiful story of the one and only Ivan,...

Sweet, sad story of a twelve-year-old girl who loses her carefree mother to an accident and is sent to live with a grandmother she's...