fiction

Coraline discovered the door a little after they moved into the house. When Coraline steps through a door in her family's new house, she finds another house strangely similar to her own (only better). But there's another mother there and another father, and they want her to stay and be their little girl. They want to change her and never let her go. Acclaimed artist P. Craig Russell brings Neil Gaiman's enchanting, nationally bestselling children's book Coraline to new life in this gorgeously illustrated graphic novel adaptation.

Indigo Summer starts to doubt her role in her boyfriend Marcus Carter's future, now that he has received his acceptance letter from Harvard and a beautiful pre-med student catches his eye on a campus visit.

After five years of fighting his way past flickers of memory about the teacher who molested him and the incident that brought the crime to light, eighteen-year-old Josh gets help in coping with his molester's release from prison when he finally tells his best friends the whole truth.

Contains 62 stories from 16 countries written during the 20th century.

Thirteen-year-old Wuditu and her Ethiopian Jewish family travel to Sudan in hopes of being transported to their ancient homeland, but once there, Wuditu is forced to return to Ethiopia alone, where she is enslaved and dreams of reunion with her family in Yerusalem.

In 1986, when seventeen-year-old Daniel's father arrives in Madison, Wisconsin, after five years of torture as a political prisoner in Chile, Daniel and his eighteen-year-old "gringa" girlfriend, Courtney, use different methods to help this bitter, self-destructive stranger who yearns to return home and continue his work.

After coming out of alcohol rehabilitation, sixteen-year-old Amy sorts out conflicting emotions about her best friend Julia's death in a car accident for which she feels responsible.

The story of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his wife and four daughters to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them everything they need from home but it soon becomes apparent that they need nothing as Africa transforms them into different people.

Defines the features and characteristics of popular reading genres and subgenres, including historical fiction, westerns, crime, adventure, romance, science fiction, fantasy, horror, Christian fiction, and emerging genres, each with a listing of representative titles, and includes essays on the social nature of reading, and readers' advisory.

Davey Wexler finds it painfully difficult recovering from the death of her father, who was killed during the robbery of his store.