Matt Rydeck, co-captain of his high school football team, endures a traumatic season as he witnesses the rape of a rookie player by teammates and grapples with his own use of performance-enhancing drugs.Book of the Day: Raiders Night by Robert Lipsyte
Matt Rydeck, co-captain of his high school football team, endures a traumatic season as he witnesses the rape of a rookie player by teammates and grapples with his own use of performance-enhancing drugs.Book of the Day: Quad by C.G. Watson
Interweaves the stories of Muir High School's various groups of students--from the "jocks" to the "drama queens"--as they clash over everything from cheating on tests to cheating in relationships, with the ultimate clash that comes when one student reaches the breaking point.Book of the Day: The A-list by Zoey Dean
Seventeen-year-old blueblood Anna Percy leaves Manhattan to spend the second half of her senior year with her father in Los Angeles and quickly becomes involved in the lives of the rich and famous at Beverly Hills High School.
Book of the Day: Say Goodnight, Gracie by Julie Reece Deaver
This book comes HIGHLY recommended by our volunteer Hannah S.! Thanks, Hannah! It is the story of a 17-year-old girl must face life on her own when her closest friend is killed by a drunk driver.
Book of the Day: Hope was Here by Joan Bauer
When sixteen-year-old Hope and the aunt who has raised her move from Brooklyn to Mulhoney, Wisconsin, to work as waitress and cook in the Welcome Stairways diner, they become involved with the diner owner's political campaign to oust the town's corrupt mayor.Recommend by Jean Hooi, our awesome volunteer! Thanks Jean Hooi!
Book of the Day: The Secret Life of Sparrow Delaney by Suzanne Harper
In Lily Dale, New York, a community dedicated to the religion of Spiritualism, tenth-grader Sparrow Delaney, the youngest daughter in an eccentric family of psychics, agonizes over whether or not to reveal her special abilities in order to help a friend.
Book of the Day: This is What I Did by Ann Dee Ellis
Bullied because of an incident in his past, eighth-grader Logan is unhappy at his new school and has difficulty relating to others until he meets a quirky girl and a counselor who believe in him.Book of the Day: Someone Like Summer by M.E. Kerr
An upper-middle-class white girl from Long Island and an immigrant worker from Colombia fall in love despite objections from both their families and their community.Book of the Day: Blind Faith by Ellen Wittlinger
While coping with her grandmother's sudden death and her mother's resulting depression and fascination with a spiritualist church, whose ministers claim to communicate with the dead, fifteen-year-old Liz finds herself falling for a new neighbor whose mother is dying of cancer.
Book of the Day: Parrotfish by Ellen Wittlinger
Grady, a transgendered high school student, yearns for acceptance by his classmates and family as he struggles to adjust to his new identity as a male.
Book of the Day: Football Genius by Tim Green
Troy, a sixth-grader with an unusual gift for predicting football plays before they occur, attempts to use his ability to help his favorite team, the Atlanta Falcons, but he must first prove himself to the coach and players.Book of the Day: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
Book 7 - the Beginning of the End! HP fans everywhere are waiting for midnight!
Don't forget the Harry Potter deal tonight at the Library! Just show up! 11:00 PM until 12:30 AM. Trivia, games and other cool stuff!
Book of the Day: Bat Boy Lives! [compiled] by David Perel and the editors of the Weekly World News
All the news that you can't find on KDKA.
Book of the Day: Confessions of a Closet Catholic by Sarah Darer Littman
To be more like her best friend, eleven-year-old Justine decides to give up Judaism to become Catholic, but after her beloved, religious grandmother dies, she realizes that she needs to seek her own way of being Jewish.Book of the Day: Chicken Boy by Frances O'Roark Dowell
Since the death of his mother, Tobin's family life and school life have been in disarray, but after he starts raising chickens with his seventh-grade classmate, Henry, everything starts to fall into place.Book of the Day: Going Nowhere Faster by Sean Beaudoin
Although his past accomplishments have convinced everyone else he is headed for college and greatness, seventeen-year-old Stan just wants to work at Happy Video, live in his parents' basement, write a movie script--and convince someone there really is a madman after him.
Book of the Day: Prom by Laurie Halse Anderson
Eighteen-year-old Ash wants nothing to do with senior prom, but when disaster strikes and her desperate friend, Nat, needs her help to get it back on track, Ash's involvement transforms her life.
Book of the Day: Behaving Bradley by Perry Nodelman
Recruited by his best friend to gather student input for the proposed Code of Conduct at his high school, Brad encounters obstinate faculty members, monstrous bullies, spineless student leaders, and personal agendas.
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