by Melissa Kantor (2015)
Setting high ambitions for an Ivy League education and successful life, Juliet begins questioning her strict family rules in the face of her father's abandonment, her mother's instability, and her growing feelings for a boy.
Sylvia McNicoll
What would you do if you only had one week to live? When a skateboarding accident claims 14-year-old Jade's life, she negotiates a one week do-over in heaven. Will she attempt to improve the world or simply live life full out? Or will she try to cheat fate instead?
Bruce Coville and Elizabeth Levy
"Now that Amber's mom and Max are married, the family is moving to a new house, and Amber is worried about more than just packing. How can she leave the only home she's ever known?"--
Mariko Nagai
Thirteen-year-old Mina Tagawa and her Japanese-American family are forced to evacuate their Seattle home and are relocated to an internment camp in Idaho, where they live for three years. Free verse tells the story of thirteen-year-old Mina Tagawa and her Japanese American family as they are forced to evacuate their Seattle home and relocate to an internment camp in Idaho, where they live for three years.
Susan Vaught
Eleven-year-old Footer and her friends investigate when a nearby farm is burned, the farmer murdered, and his children disappear, but as they follow the clues, Footer starts having flashbacks and wonders if she is going crazy like her mother, who is back in a mental institution near their Mississippi home. Eleven-year-old Footer and her friends investigate when a nearby farm is burned, the farmer murdered, and his grandchildren disappear, but soon Footer wonders if she's going crazy as her mother had. The plot contains profanity.