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Trav, Kate, and Buck make up a trio during their freshman year in high school, but their special friendship may not be enough to save Trav as he pressures himself relentlessly to succeed, in his own eyes as well as in the eyes of his parents and the world.

Fourteen-year-old April and her brother realize there are some definite perks to living on the same street as a known Mafia member, but when their own lives are put in danger, they realize the risks outweigh the benefits.

Through an unusual friendship with her thirty-one-year-old neighbor in a Texas trailer park, thirteen-year-old Jesse learns that what's inside a person is more important than what's outside.

Teens talk about their best friends, worst enemies, and the importance of peer acceptance.

Marie, the only African American girl in the eighth grade willing to befriend her white classmate Lena, discovers that Lena's father is doing horrible things to her in private.

A funny, compelling, and sensitive story about a teenage girl afflicted with obsessive-compulsive disorder and the way it affects her relationship with friends and family.

When his best friend is killed in a game with a loaded gun, fifteen-year-old Connor finds his perceptions of himself and his relationships with his family, friends, and the other people in his life changed in more profound ways than he could have imagined.

Sixteen-year-old Barney has only fleeting memories about his past but, as a voluntary patient at the institute for experimental medicine, he knows he is different from the terminally ill patients surrounding him.

Chronicles nine years in the lives of two South African youths-- one black, one white-- as their friendship ends in a violent confrontation between student and soldier.

Phyllisia eventually recognizes that her own selfish pride, rather than her mother's death and her father's tyrannical behavior, created the gulf between her and her best friend.

Fourteen-year-old Jaime has always been a doormat, but her diary reveals how getting the lead in a school play, finding her first boyfriend, discovering her dream, and helping her best friend cope with being pregnant transform her life.

Thirteen-year-olds Flip and Brian discover a dead man near Dreamland Lake, and a chain of events begins that involves several kinds of death.

In 1956 in Half Moon, North Carolina, thirteen-year-old Edie Jo comes to terms with her own prejudice and the death of a friend.

Presents two novels that follow the life of sixteen-year-old Melissa Austin after she is diagnosed with leukemia, and the struggles of her friend Jory, and her other friends and family members to come to terms with the fact that Melissa is dying.

Meg Murry and her friends become involved with unearthly strangers and a search for Meg's father, who disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government.