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Teens in Tough Times
All titles shelved in Teen collection.
- Bateman, Colin
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(2005)Eddie has a bad habit of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Otherwise, he never would have gotten mixed up with the Reservoir Pups, the scrappy gang of boys that rules the streets in his new town. Breaking into the hospital where his mom works for his initiation, Eddie stumbles upon some twisted baby-snatchers.
- Coburn, Jake
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(2003)One-time tag-artist, Nick tries to come to terms with the death of a friend, to protect the brother of his would-be girlfriend, to escape the violence of wealthy New York City prep school hoods, and to figure out who he really is.
- Conly, Jane Leslie
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(2005)A 13-year-old Baltimore girl and her younger brother are enlisted by a strange man to help in solving the murder of their neighbor.
- Cross, Gillian
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(1999)To everyone in her run-down neighborhood, 14-year-old Ashley seems like a good kid. No one knows about her alter-ego, "Cindy", the daring graffiti artist known for leaving her tag in the most unreachable places. But when a mysterious stranger discovers Ashley's secret, her tightly-wound existence spirals out of control.
- Ewing, Lynne
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(1998)Kate struggles with anger, grief and guilt after her best friend — 14-year-old, pregnant Ana — is shot by a rival gang member. A gritty look at survival in the barrio.
- Flake, Sharon
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(2005)After the shooting death of his little brother, 13-year-old Mann tries to escape his emotions. To toughen Mann up and prevent him from becoming a statistic, Mann's father draws from African tradition and abandons Mann and his friend Kee Lee in the woods, leaving them to find their own way home.
- Frank, E. R.
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(2000)From the outside they're just a group of urban teenagers. But from the inside, they're some of the most complex people readers will ever meet. The lives of a number of young people of different races, economic backgrounds, and family situations living in Brooklyn, New York, become intertwined over a seven-year period.
- Garland, Sherry
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(1993)High school sophomore Danny Vo tries to resolve the conflict between the values of his Vietnamese refugee family and his new American way of life.
- Going, K. L.
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(2003)Troy Billings at six-foot-one, 296 pounds, is standing at the edge of a subway platform, seriously contemplating suicide, when he meets Curt MacCrae — an emaciated, semi-homeless punk guitar genius who also happens to be a dropout legend at Troy's school on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. "I saved your life, " Curt tells Troy. "You owe me lunch."
- Johnson, Angela
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(2003)On his sixteenth birthday he gets some news from his girlfriend, Nia, that changes his life forever. She's pregnant. Bobby's going to be a father. He struggles to figure out what "the right thing" is and then to do it. No matter what the cost.
- McDonald, Janet
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(2006)Eric "Hustle" Samson, a smart and streetwise seventeen-year-old dropout from Harlem, aspires to rap stardom, a dream he believes is about to come true. But does Eric have the strength to leave the familiar street life behind and the courage to reach for his dream?
- Mosley, Walter
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(2005)On a plantation, 47, a young slave boy, is growing up under the watchful eye of a brutal slave master. His life seems doomed, until he meets the mysterious Tall John.
- Myers, Walter Dean
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(2000)A wrenchingly honest collection of stories set on one block of 145th Street in Harlem. Readers get to know the oldest resident; the cop on the beat; fine Peaches and her girl, Squeezie; Monkeyman; Benny, a fighter on the way to a knockout; and other residents who jump off the page and pull readers into the mix on 1-4-5.
- Randle, Kristen D.
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(1999)You step outside, you stay outside. It won't go both ways. This award-winning latter-day Romeo and Juliet story received starred reviews. Original and absorbing, it examines intolerance among outsiders and insiders — popular cliques and gang members — alike.
- Volponi, Paul
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(2005)Two star high school basketball players, one black and one white, experience the justice system differently after committing a crime together and getting caught.
- Williams, Lori Aurelia
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(2005)One girl's excruciating struggle to beat the odds with an unshakable sense of hope that transcends her bleak reality.
- Williams-Garcia, Rita
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(2001)Ever since he found her, Thulani has not been able to think of anything but Ysa. Since his mother died, he hasn't cared about anything but the rock doves he keeps on his roof. Now that he has seen Ysa, Thulani finally has a reason to come down. But it's not so easy for him — especially when it seems Ysa doesn't want him in her world at all.
- Wolff, Virginia Euwer
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(2001)When LaVaughn hears that Jody is moving back into her housing project, she can hardly believe it. But why doesn't he return her affection?
- Woodson, Jacqueline
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(2004)After fifteen-year-old Jeremiah is mistakenly shot by police, the people who love him struggle to cope with their loss as they recall his life and death, unaware that 'Miah is watching over them.
- Zephaniah, Benjamin
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(2004)Two troubled teens dream to form a rap group. After joining a special social program at school, they and their new group land a record deal. But their dream soon becomes a nightmare as violence around them escalates.