Interviews with more than 100 teenage girls provide a look at various aspects of friendship between young women.

Presents multiple viewpoints surrounding teen pregnancy, including the factors behind teen pregnancy, the best approach to reduce teen pregnancy, and the impact on teen mothers and fathers.

A young boy describes the frustrations caused by his deafness and the encouragement he receives from a deaf teenager that he can lead an active life.

In 1835, 13 year old Thomas Jefferson Boyd is used to facing new challenges having left homes in South Carolina and Alabama. Now he finds himself in the Mexican territory of Texas and is left with the burden of helping his family adapt to their new homes. In the months that follow, he struggles to decide the difference between his friends and his enemies.

At fourteen, Steve Truscott was a typical teenager in rural Ontario in the fifties, mainly concerned about going fishing, playing football, and racing bikes with his friends. One summer evening, his twelve-year-old classmate, Lynne Harper, asked for a lift to the nearby highway on his bicycle and Steve agreed. Unfortunately, that made Steve the last person known to see Lynne alive. His world collapsed around him when he was arrested and then convicted...

"Every superhero has their origin story: a radioactive spider bite turns ordinary teen Peter Parker into Spider-Man, wealthy Tony Stark escapes captivity by building his Iron Man suit, scientist Bruce Banner survives gamma rays only to transform into the Hulk. For Stan Lee, it was books of adventure, monsters, and magic that helped him transform from an ordinary boy to a superstar superhero creator. At first, reading these stories was a pathway to...

As author Cheryl Harness points out, no one could have thought up a more amazing character than the living, breathing Benjamin Franklin. He was everything from a "soap maker, candle dipper, and printer" to a "postmaster, political activist, community reformer, revolutionary, statesman, international diplomat, and first great citizen of a nation which he, as much or more than anyone, helped to create." Readers quickly learn that the story of this Founding...

How many times have you looked back on your teenage years and cringed, wishing you could offer your younger self some guidance? This book of nearly 70 letters by top young adult authors -- including bestselling writers Lauren Oliver, Ellen Hopkins, and Nancy Holder -- does just that.

Frank, Joe and eight others find themselves locked in Bayport's new mall the night before it's opening and it seems there's a murderer locked in with them. Frank and Joe Hardy finish up a case helping a fellow ATAC (American Teens Against Crime) agent, whose sharp-eyed fans may recognize despite her Alias.Things seem to quiet down when ATAC sends Frank and Joe undercover to investigate a new Mall opening in Bayport, due to several suspicious accidents...

A graphic novel adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's "Kidnapped," about David Balfour, who is kidnapped and thrown onto a ship, but manages to escape and make his way back through Scotland.