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Dangerously Alice
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Phyllis Reynolds Naylor |
First semester of 11th Grade Alice sheds her "good girl" image by taking risks and considers becoming sexually involved with her boyfriend.
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Tink
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Bodil Bredsdorff |
Feeling as thought he does not belong there, Tink leaves Crow Cove, only to return with the drunken Burd, who teaches Tink to fish and to have confidence in himself and his place in the community. |
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Fergus and the Night-Demon
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Murphy, Jim |
On his way to town to have some fun, a lazy but clever young man faces a terrible demon, who declares that his time has come. |
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The Quite Contrary Man
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Patricia Rusch Hyatt |
In 19th century New England, Joseph Palmer flaunts the law against wearing a beard and is accused by his fellow citizens of being unpatriotic and sinful, stubbornly refusing to shave even when he is … |
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Once upon a twice
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Denise Doyen |
A cautionary tale for mice written in nonsense verse. |
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Homecoming queen
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Melody Carlson |
At the Carter boardinghouse for rich teenaged girls who are interested in fashion, the race for high school homecoming queen turns friends and roommates against one another, and, as the votes roll in… |
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Love your neighbor
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Melody Carlson |
A boy imagines all sorts of creatures he'd rather be friends with than the "pain" next door, but his grandmother tells him about the Golden Rule and he decides it's worth a try. |
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Perfectly Chelsea
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Claudia Mills |
Nine-year-old Chelsea's experiences, which include a fight with her best friend, making mistakes in the handbell concert, and saying goodbye to the only church minister she has ever known, help her t… |
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Full court press
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Nathan Aaseng |
When Ben, the star of his church basketball team, finds himself turning into a poor sport and a ball hog, he receives spiritual support through anonymous notes from a secret admirer. |
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When I dream of heaven
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Steven Kroll |
In 1895 in New York City, Gina, a fourteen-year-old Italian immigrant, forced by her family to drop out of school and work long hours in a garment factory, tries to break free of the control her pare… |
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Cast Upon the Breakers
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Horatio Alger, Jr. |
"Well, good by, Rodney! I leave school tomorrow. I am going to learn a trade." |
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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Robert Louis Stevenson |
Stevenson’s famous gothic novella, first published in 1886, and filmed countless times is better known simply as Jekyll and Hyde. The first novel to toy with the idea of a split personality, it featu… |
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Night Road
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A. M. Jenkins |
For a heme like Cole, life is a tightrope existence in which sunlight is his deadly enemy and one mistake could trap him underground, staring at the inside of a coffin lid, for eternity. After a cent… |
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Dangerous love
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Kate William |
Todd gets a motorcycle and Liz is forbidden by her parents to ride on it with Todd, due to the death of her cousin on a motorcycle. However, she disobeys her parents with disastrous consequences. |
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All night long
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Kate William |
Elizabeth worries when her twin Jessica sneaks off to a college beach party with her latest boyfriend and stays out all night. |
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False friends and true strangers
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Nancy N. Rue |
Sixteen-year-old Laura Duffy learns to trust God when she experiences a series of confusing and traumatic events, including a mysterious secret admirer, jealous classmates, a depressed friend, and he… |
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Flipped
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Wendelin Van Draanen |
The first time she saw him, she flipped. The first time he saw her, he ran. That was the second grade, but not much has changed by the seventh. She says: "My Bryce. Still walking around with my first… |
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I smell like ham
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Hicks, Betty. |
Nick tries to maintain his sense of integrity as he works to succeed on the school basketball team, adjust to his new stepmother and little "dorky" stepbrother, and deal with peer pressure from his f… |
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The Princess and the Kiss
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Jennie Bishop |
A loving king and queen present their daughter with a gift from God--her first kiss--to keep or give away. |
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Living it up to live it down
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Ronica Stromberg |
Living with her non-believing family, a Christian girl finds it difficult to practice her faith, and while looking for a Christian friend at her new middle school, she assumes that the preacher's dau… |
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