Quick view Jaws by Peter Benchley Benchley's novel takes us into the watery world of a creature designed by nature to kill-- and into the terror it brings from the silent darkness of the deep. View Details
Quick view How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff Fifteen-year-old New Yorker Daisy is sent to live in the English countryside with cousins she s never even met. When England is attacked and occupied by an unnamed enemy, the cousins find themselves on their own. Power fails, system fail. As they grow... View Details
Quick view Hold Me Closer: The Tiny Cooper Story hc by David Levithan Larger-than-life Tiny Cooper finally gets to tell his story, from his fabulous birth and childhood to his quest for true love and his infamous parade of ex-boyfriends, in the form of a musical he wrote View Details
Quick view Hocus Pocus by Kurt Vonnegut A small, exclusive college in upstate New York is nestled along the frozen shores of Lake Mohiga . . . and directly across from a maximum-security prison. The two institutions manage to coexist peacefully, until 10,000 prisoners break out and head... View Details
Quick view Grendel by John Gardner The first and most terrifying monster in English literature, from the great early epic BEOWULF, tells his side of the story. View Details
Quick view Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin Chronicles a 14-year-old boy's discovery of the terms of his identity as the stepson of the minister of a storefront Pentecostal church in Harlem one Saturday in March of 1935. View Details
Quick view Girl in Pieces by Kathleen Glasgow As she struggles to recover and survive, seventeen-year-old homeless girl Charlotte "Charlie" Davis cuts herself to dull the pain of abandonment and abuse. View Details
Quick view Forrest Gump by Winston Groom Through three turbulent decades, Forrest rides a tide of events that whisks him from physical disablility to football stardom, from Vietnam hero to shrimp tycoon, from White House honors to the arms of his one true love. View Details
Quick view Emako Blue by Brenda Woods With the same depth of characterization that marked her Coretta Scott King Honor Book "The Red Rose Box," Woods presents the gritty story of a girl from South Central L.A. who is destined to be a star until everything changes in one horrific instant. View Details
Quick view Durable Goods by Elizabeth Berg Since their mother died, Katie and her sister, Diane, have been struggling to understand their distant, violent father. Diane escapes into the arms of her boyfriend. Katie hides in her room. Written with an ability to capture the sadness of growth, this... View Details
Quick view Dr. Franklin's Island by Ann Halam This ALA Best Book for Young Adults finds three young survivors of a plane crash on a tropical island stumbling into the hands of Dr. Franklin, who is eager to use them in his genetic engineering experiments. View Details
Quick view Diamonds in the Shadow by Caroline B Cooney THE FINCH FAMILY did not know that five refugees landed from Africa on the day they went to the airport to welcome the family sponsored by their church. The Finch family only knew about the four refugees they were meeting - Andre, Celestine, Mattu, and... View Details
