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"Fourteen-year-old Linda lives with her parents in the beautiful, austere woods of northern Minnesota, where their nearly abandoned commune stands as a last vestige of a lost counter-culture world. Isolated at home and an outlander at school, Linda is drawn to the enigmatic, attractive Lily and new history teacher Mr. Grierson. When Mr. Grierson is charged with possessing child pornography, the implications of his arrest deeply affect Linda as she...

Growing up can be a bumpy road, and it's no exception for Riley, who is uprooted from her Midwest life when her father starts a new job in San Francisco. Like all of us, Riley is guided by her emotions: Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust, and Sadness. The emotions live in Headquarters, the control center inside Riley's mind, where they help advise her through everyday life.

Conceived to be a donor to her cancer-stricken sister, eleven-year-old Anna decides to sue her parents for emancipation.

In her ruefully funny and wickedly perceptive debut novel, Alison Espach deftly dissects matters of the heart and captures the lives of children and adults as they come to terms with life, death, and love. At the center of this affluent suburban universe is Emily Vidal, a smart and snarky teenager, who gets involved in a suspect relationship with one of the adults after witnessing a suicide in her neighborhood. Among the cast of unforgettable...

"Follows a group of teens during a seaside summer and the efforts of a guilt-driven girl to piece together the events that led to a drowning" --

Santa Barbara, California. Raised by her strict Mexican grandma, Ri Ferǹndez has never been allowed to learn Spanish. She has always been pushed away from the neighborhood they call home and toward her best friend's world of mansions and country clubs in the hopes that it will bring Ri closer to achieving the "American Dream." Her mother disappeared when Ri was young, so when Ri finds an unanswered letter from her mom begging for a visit, Ri decides...

The story of Rhiannon, a sixteen-year old girl who falls in love with a mysterious soul named 'A' who inhabits a different body every day. Feeling an unmatched connection, Rhiannon and A work each day to find each other, not knowing what or who the next day will bring. The more the two fall in love, the more the realities of loving someone who is a different person every 24 hours takes a toll, leaving Rhiannon and A to face the hardest decision either...

An evil dictator threatens to take over the kingdom and Princess Rosalinda gets put into the Princess Protection Program. She is whisked away to rural Wisconsin where she must learn the ins and outs of behaving like a normal American teenager. She is taken under the wing by Mason, an agent from the Program. Carter is Mason's daughter, who works after school at a a nearby bait shop. Rosalinda, now known as Rosie, helps Carter overcome her insecurities...

Tracey Berkowitz, a teenage girl who uses fantasy to help deal with life, goes on a desperate attempt to find her 7-year-old brother, who wanders away while in her care. Presented almost exclusively in a split screen format.

When new girl Claire Lyons moves to Westchester from Orlando, she immediately finds out that fitting in at the prestigious Octavian Country Day School is going to be a lot harder than she anticipated.