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Ages 12 & up • Young Adult Reads
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VOLPONI, PAUL
BLACk AND WHITE
Marcus and Eddie are best friends.
They’re also stars on the basketball
court, where they’re known as Black
and White. Marcus is black, Eddie is
white, but it doesn’t matter. Until they
start to pull stickups for extra pocket
cash and the gun they’re using goes off.
Now Marcus is going to jail and Eddie is
going to college, even though Eddie is
the one who fired the gun. Told in their
two voices, this is the gripping story of
two good boys who make a bad mistake.
“Volponi writes a taut novel that avoids
didacticism and deftly balances drama
and passion on the basketball court with
each boy’s private terror and anguish.”
—BooklistH
Rec: BLH, CH, K, PWH, SLJ, V
4 1/4 x 7 1/16 192 pp. 2006
978-0-14-240692-2 $6.99
ROOFTOP
“A readable narrative crackling with
street slang, and complex personal and
societal issues that teen readers will passionately
engage.” —BooklistH
Rec: AR, AY, BLH, SLJ
4 1/4 x 7 1/16 224 pp. 2007
978-0-14-240844-5 $6.99
WALLACE, RICH
RESTLESS
“Seventeen-year-old Herbie is a great
athlete…During a run through the town
cemetery, he becomes aware of a ghostly
presence. The silent ghost he encounters
is Eamon Connolly, a distant relative,
who died in 1888 and has not been able
to leave his earthly remains. But there’s
another, similarly “stuck” ghost in the
cemetery—Herbie’s older brother,
Frank, who died at 17 and clings to
his little brother for vicarious youthful
experiences. Sports, family loyalty, and
questions of spirituality and the afterlife
meld well in this affecting tale…”
—Booklist
Rec: BL, C, K, SLJ, V
4 1/4 x 7 1/16 176 pp. 2005
978-0-14-240309-9 $5.99
See index for more titles by Rich Wallace.
WALLINGTON, AURY
POP!
Marit has decided: It’s time to lose it.
Being a virgin is getting in the way of
holding on to a boyfriend. So who better
to get it over with than her best guy
friend, Jamie? They’ve known each other
forever. It’s pressure-free. But doing the
deed changes everything. Jamie falls for
Marit! Not only does he ruin her chances
with the guy she had in her sights, now
she’s in danger of losing her friends too.
If only there was a way to un-do it!
Rec: BL
5 1/2 x 8 1/4 256 pp. 2006
978-1-59514-092-0 $8.99
WARNER, SALLY
THIS ISN’T ABOUT THE MONEY
Illustrated by Jamie Harper
“With her trademark combination of
humor and compassion, and with a very
real sense of what matters to a preteen,
Warner tells of 12-year-old Janey’s
trauma after a drunken driver runs into
the family car, killing both her parents.
The crash leaves Janey badly burned and
disfigured, but her five-year-old sister,
Yolanda, is miraculously unscathed…As
always, Warner’s dialog and characterization
are rich and real.” —Booklist
Rec: BL, C, K, SLJ, V
5 1/16 x 7 3/4 224 pp. 2004
978-0-14-240221-4 $5.99
WARTSKI, MAUREEN CRANE
A BOAT TO NOWHERE
The triumphant story of two Vietnamese
children escaping the horrors of war in
a small fishing boat. “Moving...[creates]
an indelible memory while it teaches a
hard lesson.” —Publishers Weekly
“Beautifully told.” —Alton Kastner,
International Rescue Committee
SIGNET
Rec: NC, PW
4 3/16 x 6 7/8 152 pp. 1981
978-0-451-16285-4 $5.99
WEIN, ELIZABETH
COALITION OF LIONS
“Wein transports readers to sixth-century
Africa in a richly spun historical
novel…Themes of loyalty and betrayal,
imprisonment and freedom, brotherhood
rivalry (the coalition of lions),
and love fill the pages of this ambitious
novel whose magic lies in its emotional
intensity and in the unusual vibrancy and
intelligence of its characters.” —Booklist
Rec: BL, C, H, K, SLJ, V
4 1/4 x 7 1/8 240 pp. 2004
978-0-14-240129-3 $6.99
THE SUNBIRD
“The third adventure in Wein’s Arthurian-Aksumite
cycle, this reintroduces
young Telemakos, the white-haired,
dark-skinned grandson of both Artos, a
British royal, and Kidane, who serves on
the emperor’s council in sixth-century
Aksum (now Ethiopia)…Wein’s prose is
taut and elegant, creating an intense, intimate,
and sometimes painful story with
finely wrought, believable characters…
[a] rich, engrossing tale, which deeply
mines the human heart.” —Booklist
Rec: BL, C, HH KH, SLJ, V
4 1/4 x 7 208 pp. 2006
978-0-14-240171-2 $6.99