Product Description: "This illustrated novel about growing up poor near the swamps of South Florida has a lurid vibrancy."—New York Times, Holiday Gift Guide, Dwight Garner“A completely original and clearheaded voice.”—Ira Glass, host of This American Life"We finish And Every Day Was Overcast in a delirious state of disassociation, not unlike the kids whose lives it seeks to evoke...read more

Product Description: Mallory Dane has a great family (at least on the surface), is popular at school (as long as she doesn’t make waves), and dates an amazing boyfriend, Todd (who happens to be completely made up). Boys — and sex — are something Mallory just can’t deal with, so she created her “invisible guy” to avoid it all...read more

Product Description: A collection of fiction short stories by leading teen writers about losing your virginityIncluding Melvin Burgess, Keith Gray, Patrick Ness, Sophie McKenzie, Bali Rai, Jenny Valentine, and Mary Hooper, some of today's leading writers for teens are gathered here in a wonderful collection of original stories—some funny, some moving, some haunting, but all revolving around the same subject—having sex for the first time! You never forget your first time and you'll never forget this book...read more

Intrigued by a gorgeous boy she sees at the swimming pool, sixteen-year-old Colette begins a relationship with him and is dismayed to find him both more experienced and more forceful than she is.

Product Description: Apples, an unassuming debut novel plucked from the imagination of a remarkable new twenty-one-year-old talent, and published to rave reviews in London, is a surprising, affecting, ingeniously crafted little coming-of age novel that has critics calling Richard Milward the voice of the MySpace generation...read more

Product Description: Sam and his mates enjoy boasting about their success with girls, until Sam meets Priya. Suddenly, girls are no longer just sex objects or trophies. He can actually talk to Priya and he cares about her. But of course he fancies her too, and Priya feels the same way about him...read more

Product Description: Josie, Nicolette, and Aviva all get mixed up with a senior boy–a cool, slick, sexy boy who can talk them into doing almost anything he wants. In a blur of high school hormones and personal doubt, each girl struggles with how much to give up and what ultimately to keep for herself...read more

Product Description: Juan Morales lives in the Delta Center after a lie has forced him out on his own. There, he meets Jazmyn Walters, a budding entrepreneur that wants to make him her own piece of work. Together, they work out their desires and face the obstacles of being thirteen years apart and slowly falling in love while being homeless...read more

During his senior year at high school, star football player Perry Skky Jr., torn between his desire to please God and his need for sex, must make some difficult decisions when his girlfriend decides that, due to her Christian beliefs, she is not ready to take their relationship to the next level. Original.