February
Black History Month
Celebrate Black History Month this February with books from Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing!
Joseph
By: Shelia P. Moses
This edition: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publication date: March 23, 2010
Ages: above 12
Fourteen-year-old Joseph Flood is the victim of his mother Betty's addictions to crack and alcohol. An African American boy living in a North Carolina ghetto neighborhood, Joseph has little chance for survival if his soldier...
Good Fortune
By: Noni Carter
This edition: Hardcover, 496 pages
Publication date: January 5, 2010
Ages: above 12
Ayanna Bahati lives in a small African village when she is brutally kidnapped, along with her brother, and forced onto a slave ship to America. As Ayanna, renamed Anna, rises from the cotton fields to the master’s house,...
The Rock and the River
By: Kekla Magoon
This edition: Hardcover, 304 pages
Publication date: January 6, 2009
Ages: 9 - 14
In 1968 Chicago, it’s not easy for thirteen-year-old Sam to be the son of known civil rights activist Roland Childs. Especially when his older brother, Stick, starts keeping to himself. Then, one day, Sam finds something...
Chains
By: Laurie Halse Anderson
This edition: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publication date: October 21, 2008
Ages: above 10
If an entire nation could seek its freedom, why not a girl? As the Revolutionary War begins, thirteen-year-old Isabel wages her own fight...for freedom. Promised freedom upon the death of their owner, she and her sister,...
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The Pregnancy Project
A Memoir
By: Gaby Rodriguez
with: Jenna Glatzer
This edition: Hardcover, 224 pages
Publication date: January 17, 2012
Ages: above 14
It started as a school project…but turned into so much more.Growing up, Gaby Rodriguez was often told she would end up a teen mom. After all, her mother and her older sisters had gotten pregnant as teenagers; from an...
Other Formats: eBook
Three Little Words
A Memoir
By: Ashley Rhodes-Courter
This edition: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publication date: May 5, 2009
Ages: above 14
"Sunshine, you're my baby and I'm your only mother. You must mind the one taking care of you, but she's not your mama." Ashley Rhodes-Courter spent nine years of her life in fourteen different foster homes, living by those...
Tweak
Growing Up on Methamphetamines
By: Nic Sheff
This edition: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publication date: January 6, 2009
Ages: above 15
Nic Sheff was drunk for the first time at age eleven. In the years that followed, he would regularly smoke pot, do cocaine and Ecstasy, and develop addictions to crystal meth and heroin. Even so, he felt like he would always...
Copper Sun
By: Sharon M. Draper
This edition: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publication date: January 1, 2008
Ages: above 14
M. Sindy Felin's National Book Award finalist is in paperback for the first time. Karina has plenty to worry about on the last day of seventh grade: finding three Ds and a C on her report card again, getting laughed at by...
Other Formats: Hardcover
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Something, Maybe
By: Elizabeth Scott
Designed by: Lisa Fyfe
This edition: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publication date: February 23, 2010
Ages: above 14
Another funny, romantic teen novel by the author of bloom and Perfect You, hailed as "The best love story I've read in ages" by Sarah Dessen
Hard to Get
(Part of Romantic Comedies, The)
By: Emma Carlson Berne
This edition: Mass Market Paperback, 288 pages
Publication date: February 23, 2010
Ages: above 12
Val Rushford has it all: The boyfriend, the looks, the grades, the friends--she's perfect. But when she dumps her cheating boyfriend, Dave, she's bombarded with all types of advances from boys all over school! Totally...
Other Formats: eBook
Gone
(Part of Wake)
By: Lisa McMann
This edition: Hardcover, 224 pages
Publication date: February 9, 2010
Ages: above 14
Janie thought she knew what her future held. And she thought she’d made her peace with it. But she can’t handle dragging Cabel down with her. She knows he will stay with her, despite what she sees in his dreams....
Bleeding Violet
By: Dia Reeves
This edition: Hardcover, 464 pages
Publication date: January 5, 2010
Ages: above 14
Hanna simply wants to be loved. With a head plagued by hallucinations, a medicine cabinet full of pills, and a closet stuffed with frilly, violet dresses, Hanna’s tired of being the outcast, the weird girl, the freak. So...
Chasing Brooklyn
By: Lisa Schroeder
This edition: Hardcover, 432 pages
Publication date: January 5, 2010
Ages: above 14
Restless souls and empty hearts Brooklyn can't sleep. Her boyfriend, Lucca, died only a year ago, and now her friend Gabe has just died of an overdose. Every time she closes her eyes, Gabe's ghost is there waiting for her. She...
Hush, Hush
(Part of Hush, Hush Saga, The)
By: Becca Fitzpatrick
This edition: Hardcover, 400 pages
Publication date: October 13, 2009
Ages: above 14
A special low-priced edition of the first book in the bestselling Hush, Hush Saga!For Nora Grey, romance was not part of the plan. At least, not until Patch came along. With his easy smile and probing eyes, Nora is drawn to...
Love Off-Limits
(Part of Romantic Comedies, The)
By: Whitney Lyles
This edition: Mass Market Paperback, 304 pages
Publication date: August 4, 2009
Ages: above 12
Breaking up is hard to do!
Natalie should be on top of the world dating Jeremy. He's totally perfect by everyone's standards. But the seemingly fl awless couple have been dating since freshman year, and now Natalie fears...
Other Formats: eBook
The Secret Life of Prince Charming
By: Deb Caletti
This edition: Hardcover, 336 pages
Publication date: April 7, 2009
Ages: above 12
A thoughtful, funny, and layered teen novel by National Book Award Finalist Deb Caletti.
Sea of Love
(Part of Romantic Comedies, The)
By: Jamie Ponti
This edition: Mass Market Paperback, 272 pages
Publication date: December 16, 2008
Ages: above 12
When it comes to love, sometimes it's sink or swim.
As if it's not bad enough that Darby had to leave NYC and her BF to move to Florida, where her family's started running a hotel, now she has to help with the hotel's...
Other Formats: eBook
Perfect You
By: Elizabeth Scott
Designed by: Lisa Fyfe
This edition: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publication date: March 25, 2008
Ages: above 14
Kate Brown's life has gone downhill fast. Her father has quit his job to sell vitamins at the mall, and Kate is forced to work with him. Her best friend has become popular, and now she acts like Kate's invisible.
And then...
Other Formats: eBook
The Cupid Chronicles
(Part of Wedding Planner's Daughter, The)
By: Coleen Murtagh Paratore
This edition: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publication date: January 8, 2008
Ages: above 10
When the library in Bramble, Cape Cod, announces it's in danger of closing, the town residents have got to raise BIG money and FAST. Thirteen-year-old Willa must put her crush on Joey Kennelly on the back burner to save the...
Other Formats: eBook
Bloom
By: Elizabeth Scott
Designed by: Lisa Fyfe
This edition: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publication date: April 24, 2007
Ages: above 12
There's a difference between falling and letting go.
Lauren has a good life: decent grades, great friends, and a boyfriend every girl lusts after. So why is she so unhappy?
It takes the arrival of Evan Kirkland for...
Other Formats: eBook
