Robert Cormier
Frenchtown Summer
12-year-old Eugene's first paper route sends him through "the tenement canyons of Frenchtown", where he observes the world around him--a near suicide, the death of a classmate, and his father at night.
Young Adult Fiction CORMIER

Wolff, Virginia Euwer
Make Lemonade
At fourteen, LaVaughn's life revolves around her home, her friends, and seventeen-year-old Jolly, who is trying to raise two young children in a run-down apartment. By fifteen, however, life has changed. Her dream of escaping the poverty around her is troubled by misunderstandings with childhood friends, a first crush, and a growing distance from her mother.
Young Adult Paperback WOLFF

Wolff, Virginia Euwer
True Believer
When LaVaugn was little, the obstacles in her life didn't seem so bad but now, things are harder. Written in stream of consciousness blank verse, this is the continuation of the story begun in Make Lemonade.
Young Adult Fiction WOLFF

Mel Glenn
Foreign Exchange: A Mystery in Poems
When students from big-city Tower High School spend a weekend in rural Hudson Landing with the students of the local high school, an African-American boy from the city in accused of murdering a local white girl.
Juvenile Nonfiction PS PS3557L447F67 1999

Mel Glenn
Who Killed Mr. Chippendale: a Mystery in Poems
A respected teacher's murder on school grounds sparks a series of free-verse reveries and comments from a large cast of students, colleagues, police officers, and members of the local community.
Young Adult Fiction GLENN

Marilyn Nelson
Carver: A Life In Poems
A series of fifty-nine poems portrays George Washington Carver as a private, scholarly man of great personal faith and social purpose. Nelson fills in the trajectory of Carver's life with details of the cultural and political contexts that shaped him even as he shaped history.
Young Adult Nonfiction PS 3573 A4795 C37 2001

Sonya Sones
Stop Pretending: What Happened When My Sister Went Crazy
An older sister has a mental breakdown and is hospitalized. A younger sister is left to cope with a family torn apart by grief and friends who turn their backs on her. But worst of all is the loss of her big sister--her best friend.
Young Adult Fiction SONES

Sonya Sones
What My Mother Doesn't Know
In a series of free verse poems that are sharp, touching, tragic, painful, and funny, Sophie struggles with her feelings for her boyfriend Dylan, an online chat friend, and her growing attraction to the homeliest guy in school.
Young Adult Fiction SONES

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