One Whole and Perfect Day

by Judith Clark

As her irritating family prepares to celebrate her grandfather's eightieth birthday, sixteen-year-old Lily yearns for just one whole perfect day together

The Declaration

by Gemma Malley

It's the year 2140, and longevity drugs have made the world a wonderful place -- for some. Taking Longevity means you can live indefinitely, but there's a catch; you must first sign the Declaration and agree not to have any children.

Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat

by Lynne Jonell

Emmy was a good girl. She did her homework, ate her vegetables, and never talked back to her nanny, Miss Barmy. She was really a little too good. Which is why she liked to sit next to the Rat. The Rat was not good at all...

Remembering Raquel

by Vivian Van Velde

Raquel Falcone, an unpopular, overweight freshman at Quail Run High School, is hit by a car while walking home from an animated film festival. This is an account of her life from the point-of-view of her parents, classmates, friends, and the driver who killed her.

Freak

by Marcellla Pixley

For Mirian Fisher, budding poet and proud outsider, seventh graed is a year etched in her memory "clear as pain." Teased and taunted at school, isolated at home, Miriam is pushed toward breaking.

The Garden of Eve

by K.L. Going

Evie and her father move to Beaumont, New York, a town with a reputation for being haunted. Evie doesn't believe the rumors about the town being haunted. When she meets a boy who claims to be dead, she begins to wonder about Beaumont.

King of Thorn

by Yuji Iwahara

Kasumi and her sister, Shizuku, were infected with the Medusa virus, which eats away at the body. There is no cure, but only Kasumi is selected to go into a cryogenically frozen state along with 159 others until a cure is found.

Miss Spitfire by Sarah Miller

At age twenty-one and partially-blind, lonely but spirited Annie Sullivan travels from Massachusetts to Alabama to try and teach six-year-old Helen Keller, deaf and blind since age two, self-discipline and communication skills.

The Rules of Survival

by Nancy Werlin

Seventeen-year-old Matthew recounts his attempts, starting at a young age, to free himself and his sisters from the grip of their emotionally and physically abusive mother .