Topical/Coming of Age
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You Don’t Know Me
$21.99 Add to cartMoving, wholly involving, original, and emotionally true, You Don’t Know Me is a multilayered young adult novel that presents a winning portrait of an understandably angst-ridden adolescent.
John (My- Author: Klass, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 14 2010
- ISBN10: 0312653026
- Language: English
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St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves: Stories
$18.00 Read moreHere is the debut short story collection from the author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Swamplandia and the New York Times bestselling Vampires in the Lemon Grove.
In these ten glittering stories, th- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Russell, Karen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 14 2007
- ISBN10: 0307276678
- Language: English
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A Gate at the Stairs
$17.00 Read moreNATIONAL BESTSELLER – From “one of the most acute and lasting writers of her generation” (The New York Times) comes a piercing novel of race, class, love, and war in America.
Twenty-year-old Tassie Kel… [more below]- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Moore, Lorrie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 24 2010
- ISBN10: 0375708464
- Language: English
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Things Have Changed: What Every Parent (and Educator) Should Know about the Student Mental Health and Substance Misuse Crisis
$22.00 Read moreWritten with a parent’s passion and empathy, Things Have Changed offers a clear road map for navigating painful struggles that many modern children and students face, including mental health issues, s… [more below]
- Author: Magee, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 08 2023
- ISBN10: 1637743963
- Language: English
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Child Bride
$17.95 Read moreThe coming-of-age journey of a young girl from the South who joins the African American great migration to the North-and finds her way through challenges and unforeseen obstacles to womanhood.
- Author: Smith Turner, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 266
- Publish Date: April 14 2020
- ISBN10: 168463038X
- Language: English
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Persuasion
$14.99 Read moreNow on Netflix! Jane Austen’s wickedly satirical final novel, starring Dakota Johnson, Henry Golding and Richard E. Grant.
Complete and unabridged. Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series o- Author: Austen, Jane
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: July 19 2016
- ISBN10: 1909621706
- Language: English
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Girls on the Edge: Why So Many Girls Are Anxious, Wired, and Obsessed–And What Parents Can Do
$19.99 Add to cartA parenting expert reveals the four biggest threats to girls’ psychological growth and explains how parents can help their daughters develop a healthy sense of self.
In Girls on the Edge, psychologis- Author: Sax, Leonard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 25 2020
- ISBN10: 1541617800
- Language: English
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Valentine: A Read with Jenna Pick
$17.00 Add to cartAn instant New York Times Bestseller
Finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize
A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick!
“A thrilling debut that deserves your attention.” -Ron Charles, the Washing
- Author: Wetmore, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0062913271
- Language: English
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Five Tuesdays in Winter
$27.00 Read more“Five Tuesdays in Winter moved me, inspired me, thrilled me. It filled up every chamber of my heart. I loved this book.” –Ann Patchett
By the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Writer
- Author: King, Lily
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 09 2021
- ISBN10: 0802158765
- Language: English
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3 Big Questions That Change Every Teenager: Making the Most of Your Conversations and Connections
$24.99 Read moreToday’s teenagers are the most anxious, creative, and diverse generation in history–which can make it hard for us to relate. And while every teenager is a walking bundle of questions, three rise abov… [more below]
- Author: Powell, Kara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 03 2021
- ISBN10: 0801093384
- Language: English
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The Space Between Us
$17.99 Read moreThrity Umrigar, who “displays an impressive talent for conceiving multidimensional, sympathetic characters with life-like emotional quandaries and psychological stumbling blocks,” (Washington Post Boo
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Umrigar, Thrity
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 06 2007
- ISBN10: 006079156X
- Language: English
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I Rise
$15.99 Read more“A love letter to Harlem and hope. I Rise is smart and funny and full of heart.*”
Fourteen-year-old Ayo who has to decide whether to take on her mother’s activist role when her mom is shot by police. A
- Author: Arnold, Marie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0063312662
- Language: English
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How High the Moon
$8.99 Read moreTo Kill a Mockingbird meets One Crazy Summer in this powerful, bittersweet debut about one girl’s journey to reconnect with her mother and learn the truth about her father in the tumultuous times of t… [more below]
- Author: Parsons, Karyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 03 2020
- ISBN10: 316484016
- Language: English
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An Abundance of Katherines
$19.99 Read moreFrom the #1 bestselling author of The Fault in Our Stars
Michael L. Printz Honor Book
Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist Katherine V thought boys were gross
Katherine X just wanted to be friends
Kath- Author: Green, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 21 2006
- ISBN10: 0525476881
- Language: English
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Jiu-Jitsu Girl
$14.99 Read moreWhat’s more terrifying than being forced into a coed combat wrestling martial art by your own mother? Sixth grade. Angie Larson hates Jiu-Jitsu. Like many twelve-year-old girls, she fails to find the … [more below]
- Author: Dutton, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1631636928
- Language: English
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How to Win a Breakup
$16.99 Read moreAn “it” couple’s breakup becomes a sporting event in a deliciously charming novel about the games people play in the name of love.
First, math genius and gamer-nerd Samaya gets dumped by her boyfriend.
- Author: Heron, Farah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 350
- Publish Date: March 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1542036097
- Language: English
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Right by My Side
$22.00 Add to cartMove over, Holden Caulfield, and meet Marshall Field Finney, in the 30th anniversary edition of Right by My Side, by a celebrated chronicler of Black middle class life in the American Midwest
A Pengui- Author: Haynes, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 31 2023
- ISBN10: 0143137557
- Language: English
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Fake Blood
$24.99 Add to cart“LOL funny.” –Girls Life
A Huffington Post Best Children’s Book of 2018 A middle schooler comes head-to-head with his vampire slayer crush in this laugh-out-loud funny graphic novel that’s a perfect c- Author: Gardner, Whitney
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 04 2018
- ISBN10: 1481495569
- Language: English
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Oh My Gods!
$24.99 Read moreOh My Gods!, the first in a new middle grade graphic novel series, reads as if Raina Telgemeier and Rick Riordan teamed up to write a comic, and offers a fresh and funny spin on Greek mythology. When … [more below]
- Series: Omgs #1
- Author: Cooke, Stephanie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 05 2021
- ISBN10: 0358299519
- Language: English
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A-Okay
$23.99 Add to cartA-Okay by Jarad Greene is a vulnerable and heartfelt semi-autobiographical middle grade graphic novel about acne, identity, and finding your place.
When Jay starts eighth grade with a few pimples he d
- Author: Greene, Jarad
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 02 2021
- ISBN10: 63032856
- Language: English
