single-parent families

Told in two voices, eleven-year-old Jack and the imaginary friend he thought he'd outgrown, George, find each other again when Jack's family hits a crisis.

Aiko Cassidy, a fourteen-year-old with cerebral palsy, tired of posing for the sculptures that have made her mother famous, dreams of going to Japan to meet her father and become a great manga artist, but takes a life-changing trip to Paris, instead.

Relates the stories of Marilyn who, at age seventeen, fell in love with James, left her stage-mother, and set out on her own and Angie, her now seventeen-year-old daughter, who returns to Hollywood seeking her father.

When seventh-grader Ellie, who is having best-friend problems, and eighth-grader Jack, who is under tremendous pressure from his father, switch bodies and lives, they learn a great deal about themselves and the opposite sex.

Twelve-year-old Emmy is struggling to understand boys when she discovers a magic "app" that can read their thoughts, which soon drives a wedge between her and best friend Harper.

In rural New Hampshire, sixteen-year-old Clair Taylor and her neighbor, eighteen-year-old Danny Stewart, fall into an unlikely relationship as they work together to save Wally, a loveable, but mistreated dog kept chained in a junk-filled yard by Danny's cruel father.

In the summer of 1972, three girls from very different backgrounds struggle to come to terms with being pregnant.

Sixteen-year-old Isabella "Izzy" Crawford is a trailer-park scholarship kid at a wealthy Catholic school in Virginia, and is desperate to keep her status a secret from everyone. One day she helps a new student, Aubrey Shackleton--the sister of Hot Sam, who Izzy and her best friend Roz secretly stalk--resolve a cyberbullying situation. Then Izzy's family is selected to receive a new house from Habitat for Humanity, right in the neighborhood where the Shackletons live, which threatens all of the secrets Izzy has so carefully kept.

"Seventeen-year-old Caymen Meyers knows better than to trust a rich boy. But then she meets the richest guy of all, who proves money might not matter after all"--Provided by publisher.

After enduring his father's suicide, his own suicide attempt, broken friendships, and more in the Bronx projects, Aaron Soto, sixteen, is already considering the Leteo Institute's memory-alteration procedure when his new friendship with Thomas turns to unrequited love.