SideStreets

"Cooper has been hooking up with teammate Pesh in secret, and has to play along when Pesh dates a girl and even tolerate locker-room homophobic talk. When Pesh outs Cooper online, trying to better his own chances at playing pro, Cooper chooses self-esteem and honesty over sex"--Amazon.

"Adopted by Caucasian parents, biracial teen Lizzie feels like she never belonged. After the death of her father, Lizzie starts acting out--dating, staying away from home for days and giving up her plans to continue her education. When Lizzie discovers she is pregnant, she is faced with the difficult choice of having a child or getting an abortion. This leads Lizzie to want to find her own birth mother. After running away from home, Lizzie ends up in Kingston, where she tracks down an older woman named Ruth who sheds light on the circumstances surrounding Lizzie's birth"--Amazon.

"Teen homelessness is not always connected to poverty and crime. Sometimes there's more to the story. 'No Known Address' follows a teen named Tyler from a privileged family in Victoria, British Columbia, who is kicked out of his home by his abusive dad [for his attitude]. This novel brings to light the serious nature of verbal and emotional abuse and how difficult it is to be understood and access support in such circumstances"--Amazon.

To avoid the violence of her stepfather, Vienna Fleury and her mother run away to a new city with no money and no where to go. As they begin to get their life back, Vienna enrolls in a new high school to finish her senior year. She even joins the grad committee. But Duncan finds Vienna and demands to know where her mother is.

Seventeen-year-old Ryan, recently released from juvenile detention, vows to stay out of trouble. However, his abusive father kicks him out of the house and he encounters his old gang on the streets. Worried about being arrested again, Ryan makes the choice to go on the run. Now he must figure out how to get his life in order.

When Will's homosexuality is accidentally revealed by a friend, his life in his small town is turned upside down as people begin to look at him differently. Gradually, Will begins to reexamine who he is and how he wants to define himself.

When her online carelessness threatens her father's job, sixteen-year-old Sasha and her mother must move to Canada, where the promise of a fresh start for Sasha with a volunteer group called CREW turns into a nightmare when she finds out CREW is secretly a gang. Their leader, code named Master, wants to use Sasha's computer skills to steal identities and blackmail men online into giving them money. Afraid of both jail and exposure to the gang, Sasha is forced to stay and find a way to make things right on the inside.

Sixteen-year-old Angelo emigrates from the Philippines to Canada to live his his mother who works in Toronto as a nanny. Angelo feels disconnected from Canadian culture until he meets another Filipino boy, Marcus, while visiting the Filipino Community Center. Marcus introduces Angelo to some of his friends who warn Angelo that no one respects Filipino immigrant; and soon, the boys are committing petty crimes in rebellion. When they are caught, Angelo must decide if he has the courage to stand up to his friends.

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.

Sixteen-year-old Meringue agrees to take over her friend Jeff's pizza route on her scooter without knowing that Jeff uses the route as a cover for his drug dealing. Meringue inadvertently becomes the target of a rival drug dealer, and struggles to find a way to extricate herself without snitching.