friendship

Examines how friends throughout a person's life can influence his or her personality, decisions, emotions, and physical health.

Asher Machnik is a teenage boy cursed with a beautiful androgynous face who has developed an intense fear of being touched because of the abuse he receives from others. Ash is befriended by Eulalie Mason, a lonely, tough-talking lesbian from school, a fellow artist who sees and accepts him for who he is.

As a school assignment, a thirteen-year-old boy writes an alphabiography, and explores issues of friendship, family, school, and the challenges of being a gay teenager.

After a terrible accident, Scotty feels responsible for the death of someone she hardly knew and struggles with her own reality while her friends and family deal with their own troubles, but the prospect of a boy and a dance add positive possibility back into Scotty's life.

When four fifteen-year-old friends share the temporary tattoos they bought from a mysterious woman at the mall, each develops psychic powers that will help them fight the ancient being who plans to wreak havoc at their school dance.

When Ruby's divorced father shows up unexpectedly on her sixteenth birthday, the week that follows is full of confusing surprises, including discovering that her best friend has been keeping secrets from her, her mother has not been truthful about the past, and life is often complicated.

Artistic Seattle high school sophomore Alice decides to emerge from her cocoon and date a football player, which causes a rift between her and her best friend, a boy who wants to be more than just friends.

Bailey Morgan's double life as ordinary high school student by day and ancient mystical being by night begins to take its toll, until she meets the rest of the Sidhe and is drawn into their otherworldly web.

Meg Murry, her brother Charles, and their friend Calvin, embark on a journey through space and time, assisted by three otherworldly women, to find Meg's father, a physicist who disappeared while experimenting with time travel. Includes an afterword from the author's granddaughter with photographs, the author's Newberry Medal acceptance speech, and more.

Portrays the lives of four black women who lean on each other while waiting for the right man to come along.