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Huck Porter, high school senior, is caught in a stick up in an elevator and faces down the gunman, calling his bluff by betting he won...

“On any given day, approximately 70,000 young people are in juvenile detention or correctional facilities each night.”  Teaching inside j...

We occasionally experience the heartbreaking disappointment of finding that a beloved title has gone out of print.  We have decided to memo...

“By eighteen I’d been shuffled between a county jail, a prison intake center and three prisons.  I’d been in isolation for thirty-five ...

If you’re looking for scary stories in Spanish you’re in luck!  Historias de Miedo (Scary Stories) is filled with a wide range of short h...

Faye and her friends break into an old woman’s apartment and rob her as this novel begins.  Disappointed and rattled, Faye returns h...

Very few opening lines have more potential to grab a detainee’s attention than one that places the reader in media res while the narr...

Cedric is helping his high school classmate, Barry Mitchell, get his parents decrepit, old farmhouse into shape.  Problem is, Barry’s a...

Kendra is a sexual abuse survivor who is in therapy for her trauma. As Scars begins , Kendra is beginning to believe that her abuser...

Justin is the only male dancer at the local dance studio and he loves to partner with Layla.  Layla is a beautiful, but insecure, dan...

While recovering from a gunshot wound, fifteen-year-old Shorty becomes buried underneath the hospital when the 2010 earthquake strik...

In need of a short story? An extremely short story?  Check out Sudden Flash Youth .  65 short short stories—none of them longer than fo...

Rarely does an indie film become novelized by its director, but such is the unusual case with Takoudes’ When We Wuz Famous .  As ...

Kate is at a new group home where she has to once again prove to her housemates that she is not someone they can walk all over.  But a...

This slim bilingual volume of sixteen folktales and legends spans thousands of years and ten countries.  From Columbia’s “Poor Fool!” -...

Looking for a unique and engaging way for your students to publish their work?  Offering a brief history of zines as well as ste...

This slim volume may be worth taking extra steps to get into the hands of young men facing a hard road when early death or a lifeti...

From the author of The Afterlife and Novio Boy , comes this small book of love poems written in the voices of teens.  The first half of...

Welcome back!   And to those of you who never went away, it’s nice to see you again.  Today is the first day of our students’ new s...

“These young guys are playing checkers.  I’m out there playing chess.” - Kobe Bryant This collection of deep thoughts, sarcastic qu...