For thirteen-year-old Kim, travel to South Africa with her journalist mother will mark the end of her childhood and the beginning of a remarkable journey. Expecting nothing more than three months i...

Life is almost ... well ... potentially perfect for Sophie Kandinsky. As it turns out, the Blondes were as dazzled by her as she was by them, and Sophie enters grade ten at Northern Heights smack i...

ADRIFT AT SEA, Tom Tin and his four convict companions are only too glad when they come upon a deserted ship. The boys clamber aboard, not knowing whether they've been saved or set on a course towa...

Will Reid is a gawky kid who wears fake turtlenecks, is obsessed with his ant farm and is lousy at gym. In other words, he's the perfect target for Shane, the Grade 9 bully. Kate has been Will's ...

It's 'Bead Season' at Slippery Rock High. This year the bead-snatching grad game called 'Gotcha' has been banned as an official school activity because the teachers have decided to put an end to a ...

Life is very grave for Anise. Hospitalized for anorexia, she wonders about the point of it all. Her frigid mother and ineffectual father seem oblivious to her struggle. Her beloved brother is too b...

Forget your family. Forget your home. Forget your name. Welcome to the gang. "Are you ready?" Gina asks her with a smile. G Child nods, their signal to begin. Punched, kicked, and beaten by her cl...

Sarah Martin isn't the only outsider in her small Muskoka town. But when she's teamed up with Byron Hopper for a geometry project, she discovers that she's had an easier time being accepted in her ...

Everyone is affected by the haunted life of Sally McLean - her family as well as the lakeside community of Mistik Lake where a tragedy occurred in the winter of her sixteenth year. Now her daughte...

In the third book of the bestselling series from Karen Rivers, Haley reminds us that teenage life is always complicated and never boring. Just out of high school, she's the proud owner of a VW van,...

Kurt's opa--or grandfather--has never been willing to talk about his time as a German soldier and Kurt has a deep feeling of anxiety about what he might have done during the war. He thinks of films...

After fleeing her suburban home, 15-year-old Dana struggles to survive in the alleys, squats, and subway stations of downtown Toronto. Dana and her two friends, seasoned street kids Brent and Ashle...

Fifteen-year-old Cisco Soames knows he doesn't come from a normal family. His parents are a couple of aging hippies, and his twin sisters are juvenile delinquents in training. When Cisco's father...

I was smarter. I was always smarter. A little cut-cut, drip-drip, blood saved and sprinkled. Stuck in Yellowknife with her crazy grandmother, AJ is one angry girl. She’s lonely, too, and her blo...

Sixteen-year-old Gordie Jessup is a good kid but he's living a nightmare. His eighteen-year-old brother Chase's two-year addiction to crystal meth has left their family emotionally and financially ...