Laurel-leaf books

Two teenagers caught in a snowstorm face a fight for survival in a desolate area.

A collection of gun-related fiction outlines present-day situations and invites readers to draw their own conclusions, and features contributions by Walter Dean Myers, Richard Peck, Nancy Springer, and Ron Koertge.

Finding a skull on a camping trip in the canyons outside El Paso, Texas, Brennan becomes involved with the fate of a young Apache Indian who lived in the late 1800s.

Deeply involved in his cold and manipulative mother's shady business dealings in Flint, Michigan, fourteen-year-old Luther keeps a sense of humor while running the Happy Neighbor Group Home For Men, all the while dreaming of going to college and becoming a philosopher.

As a project for an unusually open class in sex education, Livvie and her boyfriend David learn to care for a pregnant young neighbor, and as they become deeply involved with her and with each other, they learn about love and caring.

In 1959 fifteen-year-old Dove, the daughter of a prosperous orange grower in Benevolence, Florida, feels increasingly uneasy after learning of acts of racism against the African American orange pickers by those close to her.

The relationships between two girls and a boy living in a small beach town on Long Island change during their thirteenth summer, when one girl's mother is dying of cancer and the boy witnesses a child's drowning.

Longing to disappear after the death of her beloved younger sister, sixteen-year-old Cleo runs away from her overprotective and oppressive family and goes to a remote island where she is the only human inhabitant.

Nursing hatred for the father who choked her and damaged her voice as a child, seventeen-year-old Alice writes songs she feels she cannot sing and seeks to reconcile her feelings for herself and her father.

When seventeen-year-old Matt tries to find a family for an eight-year-old foster child, his attempt backfires and both of them need a Christmas miracle.