Bent Northrop Memorial Library

While confined to a mental hospital, thirteen-year-old Callie slowly comes to understand some of the reasons behind her self-mutilation, and gradually starts to get better.

Collects five stories about three girls and two boys who question how they feel about themselves while learning about love and sexuality.

Sixteen-year-old identical twin daughters of a district court judge and a candidate for the United States House of Representatives, Kaeleigh and Raeanne Gardella desperately struggle with secrets that have already torn them and their family apart.

Abandoned by their father and living in poverty with their heartless stepmother in Louisiana, two sisters from the Philippines, twelve-year-old Sol and six-year-old Ming, learn the true meaning of family.

When nonbeliever Michael transfers to a Catholic school in eleventh grade, he quickly connects with a secret support group intent on exposing the school's hypocrisies one stunt at a time.

Henry Denton has been abducted by aliens on several occasions over the years. His boyfriend killed himself, his mom barely makes ends meet, his brother is an unemployed dropout with a baby on the way, and his grandmother is losing her battle with Alzheimer's. When aliens tell Henry the world is about to end, he has 144 days to decide whether to push the button that will save Earth...or welcome the end of his miserable, messed-up life.

After finally getting noticed by someone other than school bullies and his ever-angry father, seventeen-year-old Tyler enjoys his tough new reputation and the attentions of a popular girl, but when life starts to go bad again, he must choose between transforming himself or giving in to his destructive thoughts.

A twelve-year-old boy named Moose moves to Alcatraz Island in 1935 when guards' families were housed there, and has to contend with his extraordinary new environment in addition to life with his autistic sister.

Middle schooler Natalie's year-long assignment to answer a question using the scientific process leads to truths about her mother's depression and her own cultural identity.

The family routine is upset during Ramona's year in second grade when her father unexpectedly loses his job.