In 1982 Buncombe County, North Carolina, sixteen-year-old Alex Stromm writes of the aftermath of the accidental drowning of a friend, as his English teacher reaches out to him while he and a fellow boarding school student try to cover things up.
The daughter of a wealthy Hong Kong businessman describes her very difficult childhood and the psychological abuse she suffered at the hands of her stepmother.
Despite the horrors of World War II, a French teenager pursues her dream of becoming an opera singer, which takes her to places where she gains information about what the Nazis are doing--information that the French Resistance needs.
Ten years after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Sadako Sasaki died as a result of the Atomic Bomb disease. Sadako's determination to fold one thousand paper cranes, symbolizing her hope for peace, and her courageous struggle with her illness inspired her classmates. After her death, they started a national campaign to build the Children's Peace Statue in memory of Sadako and the many …
Two high school sophomores from unhappy homes form a close friendship with a lonely old man with a terrible secret.
A young girl growing up in an Alabama town in the 1930s learns of injustice and violence when her father, a widowed lawyer, defends a black man falsely accused of rape.
After injuring his hand, a silversmith's apprentice in Boston becomes a messenger for the Sons of Liberty in the days before the American Revolution.
Adrian Mole has grown up, but living at home, clinging to his cuddly rabbit, and still pining for the love of his life, Pandora, has proved to him that adulthood is not quite what he thought it would be. Still, intellectual poets can't have everything their own way.
When respected American religious symbology expert Dr. Robert Langdon is summoned to the Louvre by French Captain Bezu Fache, he soon discovers that he is the number 1 suspect for the murder of a historian with whom Langdon had been scheduled to meet. Assisted by a French cryptographer and government agent named Sophie, Langdon is challenged to decipher a chain of cryptic codes and puzzles, all…
Ancient China, Han Dynasty. Ping and Kai have travelled far, but their journey is not yet over. Danger stalks them. Ping must find Kai a safe home. But how? When a hidden message from Danzi makes the way clear, Ping knows that once again the journey of a thousand li begins with a single step.
Spirited fifteen-year-old horse lover Rachel Selby is determined to become a veterinarian, despite the opposition of her rigid father, her proper mother, and the norms of Boston in 1872, while that city faces a serial arsonist and an epidemic spreading through its firehorse population.
Han Solo, Chewbacca, and Lando Calrissian work together on a potentially lucrative heist in the hopes of paying of Jabba the Hutt's bounty on Han's head.
Ten-year-old Tracy, who lives in a children's home because her mother was forced to give her up, dreams of getting a good foster family where she can be happy until her mother comes back for her.
Dixie is the youngest of the Diamond family. She and her sisters, dreamy Martine, glamorous Rochelle and tough Jude, could hardly be more different from each other but their Mum's tried to teach them the value of sticking together. Now, Mum's expecting yet another baby and by the time she comes home with the new baby, only Dixie stays loyal.
Mandy has been picked on in school for as long as she can remember so she is delighted when cheeky, daring Tanys wants to be her friend, but Tanya has a secret that scares Mandy as much as the girls who bully her.
Mandy has been picked on in school for as long as she can remember so she is delighted when cheeky, daring Tanys wants to be her friend, but Tanya has a secret that scares Mandy as much as the girls who bully her.
After Elsa's stepfather loses his job the family has to move into a room in a run down bed and breakfast hotel where Elsa tries to wisecrack her way through the problems.
I'm Tracy Beaker the great inventor of extremely outrageous dares. I thought I was going to live happily ever after with Cam as my foster-mum. Ha Ha! It hasn't turned out like that. Cam's so mean, she won't buy me designer clothes, so all the other kids at school laugh at me.
Ellie, Magda and Nadine all try to change their looks, with drastic consequences.
Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.
Fourteen-year-old Marina and sixteen-year-old Jed accompany their parents' religious cult, the Believers, to await the end of the world atop a remote mountain, where they try to decide what they themselves believe.
A previously banned work based on a true scandal finds an impoverished village targeted by a blood-selling operation that leads to a catastrophic outbreak of AIDS and decimates an entire community.
Grace was adopted by Canadian parents after being abandoned as a baby in China - Years later, as teenager, she realises that she needs to find out about her birth parents in China for her own peace of mind.
When Stacy is paired with a Chinese girl at school who is accused of theft, she must come to terms with her own Chinese and American heritage.
Nine o'clock. That is when Ellie has to be home. When she is out with her friends Magda and Nadine she meets a boy who is interested in her. Will Russell stay interested in a girl who has to be home by nine?