youths' writings

Vampire hunter Turquoise Draka goes undercover as a human slave in order to enter the fabled vampire realm of Midnight and assassinate Jeshikah, one of the cruelest vampires in history, but her guise brings up old memories of her past enslavement and she finds herself comforted by her benign master Jaguar.

Speed skater Apolo Anton Ohno, a 2002 Olympic gold-medalist, shares the story of his life growing up with his father in Washington state, and discusses the challenges he faced in becoming a world-class athlete.

A dissatisfied pig encourages all the pigs to leave the safety of their pigsty at Farmer Joe's to seek fun and thrills elsewhere, only to return when they experience danger as well.

Teenagers from Ethiopia describe the conditions in that country that caused them to leave and their new lives in the United States.

Describes the lives of eight teenagers from Bosnia-Herzegovinia telling why they left their homeland and how they adapted to life in the United States.

An autobiography of a Canadian ballet student who, while still in her early teens, was offered the chance to study and tour with the Moscow City Ballet.

Having escaped extermination when ruthless invaders colonized his planet, a space traveler wanders for many years and then returns to claim his world, changing the lives of seventeen-year-old Maran and her friends.

A collection of journaling ideas, writing tips, and self-help information by a young author.

A collection of stories and poems by teenage writers that looks at the subtleties of harassment, the myriad reasons victims may be chosen, and how one day, as adults, they will be able to help.

Brutally kidnapped from her African village and shipped to America, a young girl struggles to come to terms with her new life as a slave, gradually rising from working in the fields to the master's house, secretly learning to read and write, until, risking everything, she escapes to seek freedom in the North.