Laurel-leaf books

Rebekah, a fifteen-year-old Jewish immigrant arriving in New York City in 1902, almost abandons her dream of getting an education when she is forced to work in a sweatshop.

On a Caribbean cruise, sixteen-year-old Rosie meets a teenage Cuban baseball player seeking political asylum in the United States and tries to help him escape a charge of murder.

Annie Lockwood, a fifteen-year-old romantic living in the 1990s, is transported to the year 1895 and finds herself in the middle of two love triangles in two different centuries.

Seventeen-year-old Kate hopes for romance when her older brother's friend Richard comes to stay at their house during Christmas vacation.

Fifteen-year-old Webber must either live with guilt or tell the truth about who was driving his grandfather's car when it struck and seriously injured a little girl.

Chornicles the life of actor Freddie Prinze Jr. and discusses his childhood in New Mexico, his acting career, his personal relationships, and other related topics.

The story of the talented teenager from Jackson, Mississippi.

The efforts of his friends almost fail to stop a lonely and isolated teenager from destroying himself with alcohol.

After the death of their parents, Lisette and her brother Riley go to live with their grandparents in the Blue Ridge mountains of Virginia where they experience a series of adventures that bring new dimensions to their lives.

Hospitalized with the dreaded atom bomb disease, leukemia, a child in Hiroshima by the name of Sadako races against time to fold one thousand paper cranes to verify the legend that by doing so a sick person will become healthy. After her death, Sadako's classmates campaign to build the Children's Peace Statue in memory of Sadako and the other children who were victims of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.