Personal & social issues: sexuality & relationships (Children's&YA) books

This historical novel, based on the true story of a community's destruction, follows Turner Buckminster and Lizzie...  Read More >>

Levelheaded Cassie lives in tiny, touristy Logan Lake, and she would never fall for a ""summer invader."" Then handsome...  Read More >>

Rooster has a sore throat and can't cock-a-doodle-doo. Farmer Ted is sleeping, and there's no one to gather the...  Read More >>

Welcome to Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, an orphanage for imaginary friends whose children have outgrown...  Read More >>

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It's the 1970s, and Lucy can't imagine anything worse than being a giant with the last name of Small . . . unless...  Read More >>

Marie, the only black girl in the eighth grade willing to befriend her white classmate Lena, discovers that Lena's...  Read More >>

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It's been two summers since the Traveling Pants first worked their magic on four young friends, who are now facing...  Read More >>

In this story, a giraffe, a monkey, and a hippopatamus all overcome their fears and face a danger together.  Read More >>

In this national bestseller, three Georgia peaches are in for one juicy summer, as three very different girls discover...  Read More >>

Bruno the marmot hibernates all winter, and upon waking in the spring, he discovers the most beautiful dandelion...  Read More >>

When Arthur's best friend Buster leaves town to visit his father for a month, Buster promises to send postcards...  Read More >>

In this Coretta Scott King Honor Book, 12-year-old Marie is African American. She befriends Lena, a white girl,...  Read More >>

The little Red Hen's frisky housemates--Dog, Cat, and Mouse--would rather play than settle down to daily chores...  Read More >>

Joey the cat becomes bored and runs away to make new friends. Each new friend he makes teaches him how to do something...  Read More >>

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants graduates from high school and spends their last summer before college learning...  Read More >>

An insightful and entertaining book that teaches young children what it's like to have A.D.D.  Read More >>

Super-sleuth Herculeah Jones's investigation of the attempted murder of Meat's uncle leads them to a mystery bookstore...  Read More >>

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First published in the United States of America by Viking, a division of Penguin Books USA Inc., 1997 --T.p. verso....  Read More >>

Julia is a beautiful, young, sixteen-year-old girl. She works part time at a cafA(c) for Jake. Jake is a brutally...  Read More >>

Now in paperback, this #1 BookSense Pick follows the young orphan Peter and his mates as they are dispatched to...  Read More >>

Seventeen-year-old Jean has cerebral palsy, and has never really known another disabled person before she arrives...  Read More >>

With amazing insight and compelling prose, Broach charts a suspenseful journey full of danger, loss, and painful...  Read More >>