Two ninth graders, Clara and Amos, suddenly find their lives turned upside down by their families, by each other, and by the two meanest brothers in town.
An English boy during World War I comes to believe that the battles he enacts with his toy soldiers control the war his father is fighting on the front.
A collection of poems on such topics as the family, childhood, isolation, identity, realities, illusion, dissent, love, war, and pain written by various authors.
While on an ocean voyage to Canada to escape the air raids in his Liverpool home, twelve-year-old Jaimie Monaghan faces another kind of life-threatening situation.
short stories about teenagers throughout the twentieth century
Gallo, Donald R
2001
Ten stories by such notable authors as Richard Peck, Chris Crutcher, and Chris Lynch, each of which presents the life of a teenager in a different decade of the twentieth century, accompanied by a brief description of the historical and cultural highlights of that decade.
When he sees all the attention which his parents and people in the neighborhood give to Jacob, eleven-year-old Paul struggles with his feelings toward this younger brother who has Down syndrome.
Fifteen-year-old Camilla gains new maturity through her relationship with her best friend's brother and the growing realization that her parents are fallible individuals.
Lucy is on vacation in Beverly Hills visiting her father, a TV producer. She is allowed to act as a stunt rider in his series, but someone's pulling some dangerous stunts on the set and the whole cast is in danger. Lucy could be the next victim.
Frank Russell, known as Shanks, wishes he could have gone with his father and brother to fight for Mississippi and the Confederacy, but his experiences with the war and his changing relationship with the family slave, Buck, change his thinking.
