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The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky Staff Pick This coming-of-age story absolutely shines. Charlie is your average teenager trying to navigate the treacherous waters of adolescence, yet he's so much more than that. Recognizing something special in Charlie, a teacher feeds him literature and tries to... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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New Moon (Twilight Saga #2) by Stephenie Meyer Publisher Comments Legions of readers entranced by Twilight are hungry for more and they won't be disappointed. In New Moon, Stephenie Meyer delivers another irresistible combination of romance and suspense with a supernatural twist. The star-crossed lovers theme continues... (read more) List Price $10.99 Your price: $3.97 Sale - Trade Paper
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Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson Publisher Comments A charming novel about sisterhood, self-identity, and friendship from the author of Flutter Indie Lee Chickory knows she's not as cool as her older sister Bebe. Bebe has more friends, for one. And no one tells Bebe she's a fish freak, for two. So when... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $3.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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In the Night Kitchen (Caldecott Collection) by Maurice Sendak Publisher Comments <P> <awards> 1971 Caldecott Honor Book<br>Notable Children's Books of 1940--1970 (ALA)<br>Best Books of 1970 (SLJ)<br>Outstanding Children's Books of 1970 (NYT)<br>Best Illustrated Children's Books of 1970 (NYT)<br... (read more) List Price $7.95 Your price: $3.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie Publisher Comments With frizzy orange hair, a plus-sized body, sarcastic demeanor, and "unique learning profile," Danielle Levine doesn't fit in even at her alternative high school. While navigating her doomed social life, she writes scathing, self-aware, and... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $11.99 Sale - Trade Paper
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Monster by Walter Dean Myers Publisher Comments FADE IN: INTERIOR: Early morning in CELL BLOCK D, MANHATTAN DETENTION CENTER. Steve (Voice-Over) Sometimes I feel like I have walked into the middle of a movie. Maybe I can make my own movie. The film will be the story of my life. No, not my life, but of... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $4.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Jack (Vintage Contemporaries) by A M Homes Publisher Comments Fifteen-year-old Jack's confused feelings for his father, who left him and his mother four years earlier, are further complicated when he finds that his father is gay.... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $4.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Color Purple by Alice Walker Publisher Comments Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award,The Color Purpleis the moving story of a young womans endurance of shame and suffering to become whole and to know God. The novel became an instant classic and has been adapted into a film and... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes Publisher Comments Following his doctor's instructions, engaging simpleton Charlie Gordon tells his own story in semi-literate "progris riports." He dimly wants to better himself, but with an IQ of 68 can't even beat the laboratory mouse Algernon at maze-solving. Then, an... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price: $4.98 Sale - Mass Market
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Gossip Girl Novels #06: You're the One That I Want by Cecily Von Ziegesar Publisher Comments Welcome to New York City's Upper East Side, where my friends and I live in gorgeous apartments, go to exclusive private schools, and make Manhattan our own personal playground. It might look hard to be this fabulous, but for us it's as easy as sleeping... (read more) List Price $10.99 Your price: $3.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson Publisher Comments Newbery Honor winner Joan Bauer's new novel will touch your heart When twelve-year-old Sugar's grandfather dies and her gambling father takes off yet again, Sugar and her mother lose their home in Missouri. They head to Chicago for a fresh start, only to... (read more) List Price $5.99 Your price: $2.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa by Mark Mathabane Publisher Comments The Classic Story of Life in Apartheid South Africa Mark Mathabane was weaned on devastating poverty and schooled in the cruel streets of South Africa's most desperate ghetto, where bloody gang wars and midnight police raids were his rites of passage... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Forever . . . by Judy Blume Publisher Comments There's a first for everything. When you build up something in your mind -- really imagine it, wish for it -- sometimes, when it actually happens, it doesn't live up to your expectations. True love is nothing like that. Especially not for Katherine and... (read more) List Price $8.99 Your price: $4.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Crazy Lady! by Jane Leslie Conly Publisher Comments Increasingly alienated from his widowed father, Vernon joins his friends in ridiculing the neighborhood outcasts'Maxine, an alcoholic prone to outrageous behavior, and Ronald, her retarded son. But when a social service agency tries to put Ronald into a... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $4.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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Uncle Bobby's Wedding by Sarah S Brannen Publisher Comments Bobby and Jamie are getting married, but Bobby?s niece Chloe is worried that she won?t be his favorite person anymore. Will Uncle Bobby still think she is special? Sarah Brannen?s warm story is set in an alternative family as Uncle Bobby marries his... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $6.95 Sale - Hardcover
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This Boy's Life: A Memoir by Tobias Wolff Publisher Comments This unforgettable memoir, by one of our most gifted writers, introduces us to the young Toby Wolff, by turns tough and vulnerable, crafty and bumbling, and ultimately winning. Separated by divorce from his father and brother, Toby and his mother are... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Dangerous Angels: The Weetzie Bat Books (Weetzie Bat Books) by Francesca Lia Block Publisher Comments Love is a dangerous angel...Francesca Lia Block's luminous saga of interwoven lives will send the senses into wild overdrive. These post-modern fairy tales chronicle the thin line between fear and desire, pain and pleasure, cutting loose and holding on... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $5.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Blubber by Judy Blume Publisher Comments Blubber is a good name for her, the note from Caroline said about Linda. Jill crumpled it up and left it on the corner of her school desk. She didn't want to think about Linda or her dumb report on the whale just then. Jill wanted to think about... (read more) List Price $18.99 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Boy Who Lost His Face by Louis Sachar Publisher Comments DAVID IS ONLY trying to be cool when he helps some of the popular kids steal Old Lady Bayfields cane. But when the plan backfires, hes the one the “old witch” curses. Now David cant seem to do anything right. Is it the Bayfield curse at work?... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $3.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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Always Running La Vida Loca Gang Days by Luis Rodriguez Publisher Comments This award-winning and bestselling classic memoir about a young Chicano gang member is now updated with a new Introduction and reading group guide.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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