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SAY YES<br />
“Casey, 12, comes home from school to<br />
her New York City apartment and finds<br />
that her stepmother, Sylvia, is gone and<br />
Casey is alone. She’s helped by Paulie,<br />
16, the foster child of the abusive building<br />
superintendent. Paulie, gentle but<br />
street smart, warns her against getting<br />
caught up in the welfare system. He also<br />
teaches her to steal…Casey’s first-person,<br />
present-tense narrative goes right to the<br />
heart, revealing her desperate anger and<br />
fear, and also her aching awareness of the<br />
fragility of the adult she loves.” —Booklist<br />
Rec: BL, PWH, SLJ<br />
5 1/16 x 7 3/4 208 pp. 2003<br />
978-0-14-250186-3 $6.99<br />
SUMMER’S END<br />
“This novel poignantly captures the<br />
tensions, uncertainties, and rifts caused<br />
by the Vietnam War. When 13-year-old<br />
Grace’s brother, Collin, burns his draft<br />
card, his stepfather throws him out of the<br />
house and the teen heads to Canada….<br />
Grace is confused about who is right and<br />
where her allegiance lies…She comes to<br />
realize that all choices are hard, and that<br />
while people you care about don’t always<br />
do what you think is right, it is important<br />
that families stay together.”<br />
—School Library Journal<br />
Rec: BLH, C, H, K, SLJ, V<br />
4 1/4 x 7 192 pp. 2007<br />
978-0-14-240783-7 $5.99<br />
CROWE, CHRIS<br />
MISSISSIPPI TRIAL, 1955<br />
Soon after Hiram arrives in Mississippi,<br />
he crosses paths with Emmett Till, a<br />
black teenager from Chicago who is also<br />
visiting for the summer, and Hiram sees<br />
firsthand how the local whites mistreat<br />
blacks. When Emmett’s tortured dead<br />
body is found floating in a river, Hiram<br />
is determined to find out who could do<br />
such a thing. “This book belongs in all<br />
collections to show young readers the<br />
full range of American history.”<br />
—School Library Journal<br />
Rec: BL, C, K, PW, SLJ<br />
4 1/4 x 7 272 pp. 2006<br />
978-0-14-250192-4 $6.99<br />
CUMMINGS, PRISCILLA<br />
A FACE FIRST<br />
“Unable to remember the horrific automobile<br />
accident and resulting explosion<br />
that melted her earrings as well as much<br />
of her skin, 12-year-old Kelley finds<br />
her world of horses, ballet lessons, and<br />
environmental projects reduced to a vise<br />
of pain in a Baltimore hospital’s burn<br />
unit…Cummings…really shines in showing<br />
the careful balance of push, pull, and<br />
nurturing that must be maintained by<br />
the dedicated medical staff who choose<br />
to work with fire victims. She understands<br />
appearance-conscious adolescents,<br />
and leads readers to pull with Kelley in<br />
working through the layers of her inner<br />
being to reach beyond the mask.”<br />
—School Library Journal<br />
Rec: BL, PW, SLJ<br />
5 x 7 3/4 208 pp. 2003<br />
978-0-14-230247-7 $6.99<br />
RED kAYAk<br />
“In this satisfying crime and coming-ofage<br />
drama, a toddler drowns in a kayak<br />
accident after friends of teenage Brady,<br />
the victim’s neighbor, vent some anger<br />
against the child’s dad by drilling holes<br />
in the bottom of his craft. It was a meanspirited<br />
prank—but no one was supposed<br />
to die. What happens now? Revealing the<br />
terrible secret would implicate Brady’s<br />
friends in the drowning, and it clouds<br />
his whole world with guilt and fear.<br />
Cummings works plot and characterizations<br />
skillfully, building suspense as the<br />
evidence unfolds and as Brady wrestles<br />
with his decision and tries to come to<br />
terms with his own responsibility.”<br />
—Booklist<br />
Rec: BL, C, K, SLJ, V<br />
5 x 7 3/4 224 pp. 2006<br />
978-0-14-240573-4 $6.99<br />
WHAT MR. MATTERO DID<br />
“When three seventh-grade girls from<br />
Oakdale Middle School come forward<br />
with an accusation that Mr. Mattero<br />
touched them inappropriately, the<br />
passionate, veteran music teacher is summarily<br />
sent home, and a formal investigation–and<br />
lots of informal character<br />
assassination–quickly gets underway...<br />
Naturally, he’s devastated, and his family<br />
suffers too, as the rumors and reproaches<br />
escalate…when the issue of what Mr.<br />
Mattero did is finally resolved, readers<br />
get an ending that’s both satisfying and<br />
realistic.” —School Library Journal<br />
Rec: BL, C, K, SLJ<br />
5 x 7 3/4 224 pp. 2007<br />
978-0-14-240856-8 $6.99<br />
CUSICK,<br />
RICHIE TANKERSLEY<br />
THE UNSEEN<br />
Lucy has strange visions and horrible<br />
dreams, and a distinct feeling of being<br />
stalked by an unseen person, or thing but<br />
nobody believes her. Can Lucy believe in<br />
her own perceptions, and can she decode<br />
their meaning before it’s too late?<br />
PART 1: IT BEGINS<br />
Rec: SLJ<br />
4 1/4 x 7 304 pp. 2005<br />
978-0-14-240463-8 $6.99<br />
PART 2: REST IN PEACE<br />
Rec: SLJ<br />
4 1/4 x 7 304 pp. 2005<br />
978-0-14-240464-5 $6.99<br />
PART 3: BLOOD BROTHERS<br />
4 1/4 x 7 272 pp. 2006<br />
978-0-14-240583-3 $6.99<br />
PART 4: SIN AND SALVATION<br />
4 1/4 x 7 384 pp. 2006<br />
978-0-14-240584-0 $6.99<br />
167 ◆<br />
Ages 12 & up • <strong>Young</strong> Adult Reads
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