Product Description: A boy’s chance encounter with a scruffy dog leads to an unforgettable friendship in this deeply moving story about life, loss, and the meaning of family Ben Coffin has never felt like he fits in. A former foster kid, he keeps his head down at school to avoid bullies and spends his afternoons reading sci-fi books at the library...read more

Product Description: From critically acclaimed writer Paul Griffin comes a fast-paced young adult novel about five very different teens lost at sea with no one to count on but each other. Matt and John are best friends working out in Montauk for the summer...read more

Product Description: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. A heartbreaking urban romance from award-winning author Paul Griffin Fifteen-year-olds Cece and Mack didn't expect to fall in love. She's a sensitive A student; he's a high school dropout. But soon they're spending every moment together, bonding over a rescued dog, telling their secrets, making plans for the future...read more

Product Description: Best friends Ray and Jose are not your typical teenagers. They've escaped foster care and juvenile detention centers to live on their own together in an abandoned stationhouse in New York City's Ten Mile River Park. Ray and Jose are as close as brothers...read more

Product Description: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Tamika, a hearing-impaired girl; Jimmi, a young veteran who stopped taking his antipsychotic medication; and Fatima, an illegal immigrant girl from Africa, meet and connect in their Bronx neighborhood, with devastating results.