Laurel-leaf books

After being in detention with a girl called "The Freak, " Megan finds herself torn between the developing friendship the two share and her involvement with a popular clique.

Working as a telegraph messenger in California during World War II, fourteen-year-old Homer Macauley gains an understanding of the world and an acceptance of his brother's death.

As a slag heap, the result of strip mining, creeps closer to his house in the Ohio hills, fifteen-year-old M.C. is torn between trying to get his family away and fighting for the home they love.

Two teenagers caught in a snowstorm face a fight for survival in a desolate area.

A collection of gun-related fiction outlines present-day situations and invites readers to draw their own conclusions, and features contributions by Walter Dean Myers, Richard Peck, Nancy Springer, and Ron Koertge.

Deeply involved in his cold and manipulative mother's shady business dealings in Flint, Michigan, fourteen-year-old Luther keeps a sense of humor while running the Happy Neighbor Group Home For Men, all the while dreaming of going to college and becoming a philosopher.

As a project for an unusually open class in sex education, Livvie and her boyfriend David learn to care for a pregnant young neighbor, and as they become deeply involved with her and with each other, they learn about love and caring.

In 1959 fifteen-year-old Dove, the daughter of a prosperous orange grower in Benevolence, Florida, feels increasingly uneasy after learning of acts of racism against the African American orange pickers by those close to her.

The relationships between two girls and a boy living in a small beach town on Long Island change during their thirteenth summer, when one girl's mother is dying of cancer and the boy witnesses a child's drowning.

Longing to disappear after the death of her beloved younger sister, sixteen-year-old Cleo runs away from her overprotective and oppressive family and goes to a remote island where she is the only human inhabitant.