Children/Young Adult

Sixteen year old Kate Reynolds has a problem: her life completely sucks. Her mother has recently lost her job and has now resorted to bus driving. Her best friend is a midget and the hottest junior in school lives right next door (Kate hates him). And to top it all off, her sister Erica is PERFECT and has recently gotten the lead role in the school play. But then Erica suddenly gets sick and Kate has to fill in for her. Can Kate cope with all of this? It might take the help of the guy she meets in New York City

A novel for teenage girls who are Roman Catholic. Coerced by her mother, Stacy attends a religious conference and has a mystical experience which starts her on the road to conversion. She will find herself swept up in a romance with the wrong guy, but her new-found faith will eventually guide her in choosing the right partner.

The life, trials, tribulations and friendships of Anne Shirley, a red-haired orphan with a fiery temperament who was adopted from an orphanage in Nova Scotia. Her misadventures and rivalries abound on Prince Edward Island where she enjoys her early teen years. A classic story.

I’m still dizzy. I lie down on the bed and close my eyes. When will I wake up? I remember the night I slept in the flat below, on a bed that looked like this one, when Shine’s parents and his brother were in the US. And the next morning Shine made me pancakes, we ate them in the sun, while we spoke about the feeling of living inside a dream, because lately all our wishes were coming true. I remember Soul. In the midst of all this, I miss him. I wonder if he exists. I'm scared of never seeing him again, or Vilmo, or Silvana. And where is Marco now? If anyone’s able to understand me at this point, it can only be my interdimensional friend.

This is the first of a series of young adult novels that follow sixteen year old William Dean Ritter, aka "Montana" from his Montana farm to a Wyoming cattle ranch, Dodge City, Kansas and Texas. Through the several adventures he encounters in pursuit of his dream to become a cowboy, something unexpected happens - he becomes a man. The saga starts with "Call Me Montana - The Beginning," where you get to know the boy and his famous horse "Spirit." The characters and plot lines harken back to the best of the western serials of the 40's and 50's, where morality, integrity and self reliance ruled the day. This 195 page novel is suitable for young adult readers.

Cheroot is an enchanting poetic adventure story with lovely paintings by renowned wildlife artist, Linda Walker. Grades K - 4.

Miriam dreams of being anywhere but here. Thora is on a mission to save the world. Fong wants the woman he married - back. The boys want what all modern teenagers want. And Black Fatty just wants to be adored by everyone. They’ve got a doorway in their backyard to a pristine, parallel world in which they decide to have the holiday that will change their lives forever.

Lively story of two girls from Barbados whose parents send them off to boarding-school in England just after World War 2. Some humour, some romance, and an insight into the emotional changes the girls experience having to cope with a different culture. Fast pace reading.

Denise Suthers is your average fifteen year old gang leader. Interested? Good, because the subdivision is about to be torn apart in war.

A girl meets a guy in a subway station. Sort of. He whistles masterfully every night, she keeps coming back just to listen. They never speak, but there's something between them.

When she stops coming, he's shaken.

Then she returns and leaves behind a novel that she wrote just for him.

"Gazoon High Twizzle" is that novel. We meet a boy with a genius for whistling and an imaginative father who he worships, then despises and resists. Hanging in the balance are dreams. These dreams are questionable—okay, downright flaky—but still powerful enough to shape a family indelibly.

15-year old Sam Simmons is an ordinary teenager - his life sucks. His girlfriend cheated on him with another guy, and he's been suspended from Clearview High School. So he met a new girl - Fantasia. Fantasia introduces him to alcohol and marijuana. But this isn't Sam's big mistake - that's when Fantasia introduces him to Lyfe. It's the new drug on the market, with a high that's supposedly seven times the high of heroin - and seven times the addictiveness. Sam tries it ... and thinks it's the best thing ever. Nothing else matters an more - food, sex, friends, family - not even life. Only lyfe.

Several childrens book by various authors.

Introverted and shy, 14-year-old Leah Nells has lived her life alone, with only books to keep her company. As she starts 9th grade, she finds herself lost within the complicated social universe of high school - especially when she falls in love with a boy from her class. Under pressure from her parents, her classmates, and the whole noisy world, can she become the girl she wants to be?

Teens use time and space travel and a wise guardian angel to learn the meaning of faith, discrimination, death and heaven.

Little Brother is a story about hacker kids in San Francisco who use technology to reclaim democracy from the Department of Homeland Security after a terrorist attack and the concomitant crackdown.

Many childrens books by several different authors.

It's a fiery hot summer, and sixteen-year-old Jesse Wright is on the run. An oddly gifted boy, he arrives in a new city where the direction of his life is about to change. He's hungry and lonely and desperate - and beset by visions of a stranger who's being brutally tortured. And then there are Jesse's own memories of a fire ...

Four words put strain on the next three months of friendship between Ryan and Lainey; she’d asked him to kill her. He’d said yes. The question remained, though, of whether or not to follow through on that promise. Not only did the confidential pact with Lainey torture Ryan’s conscience, but another and more personal secret continued to wreak havoc on his life. Under the pressure of holding up a façade on more fronts than just his own, would Ryan collapse or prevail? Would he be able to coax Lainey away from her plan of assisted suicide, or would he really become her murderer?

This is a story of a young boy from England who will journey to the land of the Rising Sun after losing both his parents. There, he will learn about Japanese culture, love, dignity, and respect. This book goes through the years he spends there growing up and the choices he makes in life. Takes place in the early 1900s.

Noisome Beasts is a short novel that tells the compelling story of Todd, a young rapper who is determined to seek out Reginald Vel Johnson, the man who played Carl Winslow in the hit TV show Family Matters. Aided by several bags of cheese puffs and his mathematician-historian friend Edgar, Todd travels to Wichita in hopes that he can discover his true father and, in doing so, compose a rap song that will haunt history for all of eternity.