Will steroids tear the team apart? (RL2.9) (learn more about this book)
When Wally is badly injured skateboarding, Philip must decide what is more important-skating or making things right with his friends. (RL 2.2) (learn more about this book)
When a street race goes terribly wrong, Jake must make some tough choices. (RL2.8) (learn more about this book)
It's like I said, it isn't what you do with the shots you make, but the ones that don't go in. The rebounds. Sean vows that this year will be different: he’ll stay out of trouble and make the basketball team, even if it means ditching his old friends. David also needs to make a new start.... (learn more about this book)
It is 1915 and thirteen-year old William is sent by his mother to spend the summer working with an eccentric inventor -Alexander Graham Bell-and his crew in a tiny Nova Scotia town. They are hard at work designing and building a hydrofoil boat that they hope will help the Allies defend themselves... (learn more about this book)
I pulled out the picture Cole had given us...my gaze fell on the boy, my uncle. I thought about the sadness in his eyes and what he'd been through at such a young age. And I was shocked to see a bit of me, staring back. After the sudden death of Sky's mother, Sky wants nothing more than to... (learn more about this book)
Helen is not entirely sure she is looking forward to spending the next six months on board the Karluk, a ship headed on an Arctic expedition. But with the recent death of her father, it is the only work her seamstress mother can find. Helen's nine year-old brother, Michael, is delighted to be off... (learn more about this book)
A novel from one of the country’s most prolific and popular YA authors, this book, set in New York City on September 11th, shows us how the experiences of that day profoundly changed one teen’s life and relationships. Today is September 10, 2001, and Will, a grade nine student, is spending the... (learn more about this book)
It's 1943, and nearly-12-year-old George and his older brother Jack are spending a restless wartime summer in Whitby, Ontario, where their mom is working at a munitions plant while their dad is off fighting the Germans. One afternoon, the boys stumble across Canada's top-secret spy camp-and so... (learn more about this book)