Laurel-leaf books

When teenagers Sue Hua, who is Chinese American, and Andy Suzuki, who is Japanese American, start dating they think they have a lot in common, but once their families find out about their relationship and tell them their opinions, they begin to question if they should be together.

Unhappy San Diego teenager Samantha Pallas, a passionate runner who holds back during races, lives with her philandering father and his pregnant girlfriend, and searches for love in casual sex on the beach, seeks validation in a relationship with Farouk, a sophisticated new boy from Iran, while her school mourns the death of Owen, the popular star of the track team.

Somewhere in the Caribbean, seventeen-year-old Morgan and thirteen-year-old Birdie, two girls whose lives are worlds apart, are brought together by the maniacal Nicholas.

Fourteen-year-old Holly Fay Lovell leaves the small southern town where she lives with her mother, a seamstress, in order to pursue her dream of a singing career, not knowing the whole truth about her humble beginnings.

When April Hunt moves to St. Simon Island, Georgia, to live with her father, a recovering alcoholic, she becomes involved with an illegal alien from El Salvador and learns about his life and country.

Bambi, Buffie, and Brick, three totally cool siblings from Los Angeles, move with their parents to Hickory Fork, a small town terrorized by a high school gang.

A novel in play form in which sixteen-year-old Courtney, paralyzed in an accident, learns about the power of the mind from an elderly blind woman who takes Courtney on an imaginary journey to Italy using a 1910 guidebook.

Thirteen-year-old Flora Popescu and her family find themselves caught up in events leading to the overthrow of the repressive regime of Nicholae Ceausescu in Romania in 1989.

Presents two novels by Lurlene McDaniel in sisters Heather and Amber Barlow embark on mission trips to Africa where the disease, famine, and misery of the region open their eyes and show them what God has planned for their lives.