She lives in fear—of the two-legs, of the noisy, massive trains that scream in and out of the station, of cats and rats and dogs and the dark of the tunnels. She lives in the subway, where the hard shoes kick her ribs, where shrill voices beat her ears, where she subsists on the garbage of the humans. But the little cat walks alone.Until she meets Candlewax, a street kid exiled from the subway tunnels, and Katherine, a student photographer who loves her on sight. From these two she ...

"You'll find Faith in the clock shop," Peter Reed says."Faith? I don't believe in faith or God or predestination or any of that bullshit anymore. I believe in what I can see."Daniel has a list of things he wants to do before the clock strikes twelve on December 31st.Get a tattooRide a horse-drawn carriage in the snowSee a Broadway playBuy hot chestnuts from a street vendorEat a one-pound burger at Rocko’sDrink ...

A “page-turner of a survival story.” –School Library JournalBig things are about to happen at Maple's house. Mama's going to have a baby, which means now there will be four Rittle sisters instead of just three. But when baby Lily is born too early and can't come home from the hospital, Maple knows it's up to her to save her sister. So she and Dawn, armed with a map and some leftover dinner, head off down a river and up a mountain to find the Wise Woman who...

Red, it just had to red.A world of blood, betrayal, love and war. A world Adisin gets thrown into when she looks for an escape from her past. A life led by the seven deadly sins.

Fifteen-year-old Sophie sees her move to Victoria as a chance to start over and leave her old self behind. She is soon drawn into the orbit of the charismatic but troubled Zelia. As their friendship develops, and Zelia's behavior becomes increasingly self-destructive, Sophie struggles to maintain both the friendship and her own sense of self. Then Sophie meets Max. At first, Max seems to be Zelia's opposite: direct, straightforward and sure of herself. But this new friendship brings its ow...

Dustan Reid has just received his own personal fairy. Straight out of an enchanted forest.He just doesn't know it.Instead, he thinks Harmony is the most annoying, pushy girl he's ever met. Not that Dustan meets or much less talks to girls. He's too busy trying to keep his grades up and working at his step-dad's motorcycle garage—while his stepbrothers work at the art of hanging out. But the freedom graduation will finally bring isn't too far off.Harmony's determined...

The Haven, a commune in the mountains, seems harmless -- until Mailee's best friend Cara decides she's going to stay there forever. How far will Mailee go to bring her friend home?Mailee and Cara take care of each other. Mailee is the star of the high school plays; Cara is the stage manager. Mailee can't keep her life together; Cara has enough organizational skills for the both of them.So when the girls are invited to visit the Haven, a commune in the mountains near their suburban ...

AUGIE BORETSKI KNOWS how to get by. If you're a scrawny loser in the destitute city of Camden, New Jersey, you keep your head down, avoid the drug dealers and thugs, and try your best to be invisible. Augie used to be good at that, but suddenly his life is changing. . . .First, Augie accidentally steals a strange book of fairy tales. Then his mom makes him join the Big Brothers program and the chorus. And two bullies try to beat him up every day because of it. Just when it...

Gwen lives for dancing. When she has the chance to take an intensive - and expensive - course far from home, she knows her parents will object. She also knows that she can usually convince her father to support her. She raises the subject when they're together skiing, but the discussion turns into an angry confrontation that is cut short by a sudden dreadful avalanche that almost kills her dad.The avalanche leaves terrible damage in its wake. Gwen is left wracked with guilt and inj...

M is for Mary whose real name is Mariposa. She is a troubled girl who is haunted by mysterious dark shadows. She knows little about her father, and her mother can't accept her for who she is. Mary's attempts to dare to make connections with other people are doomed to fail as long as the shadows loom within her — until she figures out how she can gain control of them and use their power.

People stay away from Cassidy. Her skin is porcelain white, her hair is snow-white blonde, and her eyes are a red goldall characteristics that make her look albino, even though she is not. Discovered by a park ranger as a babyher half-naked, nearly frozen body chained to a stone table with a knife lying beside herCassidy has never given much thought to the identity of her birth parents until now. When a realistic dream leaves Cassidy feeling like she has just experienced a bad case of dj v...

Tej and Liam are going snowboarding.When they take a shortcut over a treacherous logging road and have an accident, their adventure becomes more about survival than fresh powder. Tracked by a hungry bear, while trying to outrun the weather without any food, Tej and Liam learn about their friendship and what it will take to survive. When Tej is hurt, Liam decides he has to go for help—alone.This short novel is a high-interest, low-reading level book for teen...