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Maddie is living on the streets when she meets Q, a young man in a similar situation.  When a desperate mother leaves her young chil...

Ty Johnson is at the top of his game, following in his father’s footsteps and making a fortune selling drugs. Even though his dad is serv...

Do you know the median salary of a fashion designer? (It was about $64,000 per year in 2010.)  How about the education necessary to b...

Fierce and independent Blaise finds herself feeling torn.  Pulled between conflicting loyalties, her painful past and her dreams for th...

With a simple, yet inviting cover and colorful photographs of sneakers and the basketball stars who wore them on every page, this new ac...

This paperback volume containing arresting portraits of multiracial kids is picked up at least once a day in our library at Belmont. ...

Yesterday PAL Belmont hosted a visit from poet/activist/professor/producer Bob Holman.  Holman, who has been described as “one of the m...

Angie disappeared on a camping trip several years ago and walks into her parents’ house now, three years older, with thick scars a...

With simple, expressive art and judicious text, this graphic novel adaptation brings the mischief and imagination of Tom Sawyer’s world t...

Omar has just been named Mr. Football of South Carolina and can’t wait to announce his plans to play for Miami when he crosses paths ...

When Carissa Phelps was just twelve years old, she was kidnapped by a pimp. This is the introduction she gives herself, later on, each ...

High school student Hannah Baker has committed suicide, and protagonist Clay is trying to discover why via thirteen cassette tapes ...

Eighteen-year-old Nikki is in love with her twenty-year-old boyfriend, Dee. She had no idea when he took her on a ride over the week...

“Who would win in a fight? A lion or a tiger?” I can’t tell you how many times students have asked me some variant of that question - c...

Marci Cruz, 11, is determined, sincere, and funny without meaning to be.  She speaks Spanglish sometimes and makes up her own terms...

After having repelled an alien invasion, the International Fleet creates Battle School, a program to train children who show great ...

Hey, my name is George O’Connor, and I’m making a blog tour of the greatest book blogs in the universe to promote my ne...

“At the funeral for Oliver’s father, I daydreamed about killing my own.”  So begins Marcus’ narrative of his summer before senior yea...

I have been inundated with requests for books of love poems.  I am happy to have this slim, enigmatic volume on hand to offer students ...

Saddleback’s Hip-Hop Biographies series has drawn tremendous student interest since the moment I took the books out of the box. In Drak...