bildungsromans

Told entirely through verse, Skyler Wise tries to escape her run-down neighborhood and her family history of only dating bad boys. Then she meets Cole, a sweet boy with a dangerous reputation who makes her rethink her position, and Skyler realizes she'll do anything to help him even if it means sacrificing her own dreams. But in the end, she learns the consequences of being with the bad boy.

As a freshman at one of the best private high schools in Detroit, Isaiah has earned a spot on the varsity basketball team. But at home his family is falling apart, and he struggles with the feeling that he's lost his street-cred by moving to the suburbs.

When Jason Hart is given the opportunity to intern on a horror movie set for the summer, he has to learn how to work as part of a team in order to succeed.

When the Sudanese civil war reaches his village in 1985, eleven-year-old Salva becomes separated from his family and must walk with other Dinka tribe members through southern Sudan, Ethiopia, and Kenya in search of safe haven. Based on the life of Salva Dut, who, after emigrating to America in 1996, began a project to dig water wells in Sudan.

Closed off and grieving her best friend, fifteen-year-old overachiever Verdad faces prejudices at school and from her traditional mother, her father's distance since his remarriage, and her attraction to a transgender classmate.

Seventeen-year-old Maya Aziz is caught between her India-born parents' world of college and marrying a suitable Muslim boy and her dream world of film school and dating her classmate Phil when a terrorist attack changes her life.

Justice stays out of trouble and spends his time writing rap lyrics and playing chess in the park. Then his teacher's phone and wallet are stolen, and Justice must prove his innocence before he is wrongly convicted of the crime.

Louise dumps her popular jock boyfriend after he makes some insensitive remarks about his brother's Native American fianc?e without regard for the fact that she is also Native American. As a reporter for her school newspaper, she is working on the story of the year alongside Joey--a story that involves racism, blackmail, and bullying among the cast of the school play--a cast that includes Louise's younger brother.

When Mara's twin brother Owen is accused of rape by her friend Hannah, Mara is forced to confront her feelings about her family, her sense of right and wrong, a trauma from her past, and the future with her girlfriend, Charlie.

When Sofie is paired with the only lesbian in school for an English project, she is surprised how quickly they become close. They go on a road trip to check out colleges and Sofie begins to question her sexuality. She returns home and breaks up with her boyfriend, but her problems are just beginning with bullies at school.