teenagers | teenagers
Feb.15.2008
The legend begins with this book, chronicling the origin of that maternal dynamo know to the world as Super Mom.
Birdie Lee is an average, divorced mother of two teenagers, until the day she's confronted by a Stain of Unusual Origin. Determined to rid her house of this vile menace, she...
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Jan.21.2008
Tall, blonde, and pretty, Kelsey may look like a perfect California girl, but she doesn’t feel like one.That is, until she starts dating a popular skater dude named C. J. Logan. But after a while, the life of a skater girlfriend begins to wear on Kelsey, and she decides to go it alone. C. J. doesn’...
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Jan.21.2008
For Anyone Who's Ever Been Dragged on a Family Vacation
Fourteen year-old Tracy Forrester is stuck at Farnsworth House, a big, rambly, slightly musty-smelling house on Cape Cod, for a retreat for divorced parents and their kids.
For friend potential, there's only Beka, the Angry Girl from New York...
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Jan.11.2008
For seventeen-year-old Janie, getting sucked into other people's dreams is getting old. Especially the falling dreams, the naked-but-nobody-notices dreams, and the sex-crazed dreams. Janie's seen enough fantasy booty to last her a lifetime. She can't tell anybody about what she does; they'd never...
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Jan.11.2008
Atlanta Journal-Constitution, September 7, 2003 - Hal Jacobs
Is it worse to lose your sister or your husband? That's the question Maryanne Stahl poses in The Opposite Shore (New American Library, $12.95 paperback) after a 40-some-thing woman discovers her husband and sister locked in a kiss on...
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Jan.10.2008
Original jacket copy:
An uproariously funny and deeply moving novel about growing up in the South by the acclaimed author of Crazy in Alabama.
When Daniel Musgrove's family moves to a small Mississippi town at the beginning of his junior year, he faces all the pain and thrills of adolescence,...
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Jan.04.2008
Praise for Hold Me Close, Let Me Go"The thrilling level of honesty and discovery burned into every line of Hold Me Close, Let Me Go is something that rarely informs a memoir of any kind. In this case, Adair Lara has transcended the genre of self to achieve selflessness. Her story of her...
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