Bauer, Joan                            Best foot forward                                           BAU YA

Between school and Al-Anon meetings, Jenna helps Mrs. Gladstone cope with escalating problems that result from the merger of Gladstone Shoes with Shoe Warehouse Corporation, while managing a new employee with a shoplifting record.

Bechard, Margaret.               Hanging on to Max                                        BEC YA

When his girlfriend decides to give their baby away, seventeen-year-old Sam is determined to keep him and raise him alone.                       

Blume, Lesley M.M.              Tennyson                           BLU YA

After their mother abandons them during the Great Depression, eleven-year-old Tennyson Fontaine and her little sister Hattie are sent to live with their eccentric Aunt Henrietta in a decaying plantation house outside of New Orleans.

Johnson, Angela                                 The first part last                               JOH YA

Bobby's carefree teenage life changes forever when he becomes a father and must care for his adored baby daughter.

Johnson, Maureen                             Girl at Sea                                          YA JOH

High-school junior Clio Ford reluctantly gives up her dream job and a potential first kiss to take a working vacation with her estranged father on a yacht in Italy.

Love D. Anne                                                 Semiprecious                                                            LOV YA                     

Kuenbert, Stephanie                    I wanna be your Joey Ramone                         YA KUE

Punk rock is in Emily Black's blood. Her mother, Louisa, hit the road to follow the incendiary music scene when Emily was four months old and never came back. Now Emily's all grown up with a punk band of her own, determined to find the tune that will bring her mother home. Because if Louisa really is following the music, shouldn't it lead her right back to Emily?

Myers, Walter Dean                         Someone in the darkness                  MYE ppb YA

A teenage boy accompanies his father, who has recently escaped from prison, on a trip that turns out to be a time of, often painful, discovery for them both.

Na, An                                    A step from Heaven                                       NAA    YA

A young Korean girl and her family find it difficult to learn English and adjust to life in America.

Pennebaker, Ruth                  Conditions of love                                          PEN YA

During her freshman year at an elite high school in Dallas, Sarah tries to come to terms with her own volatile emotions, her changing relationship with her best friend, feelings about her mother, and new insights into her dead father whom she idolized.

Powell, Randy                        Run if you dare                                              POW YA

Fourteen-year-old Gardner, trying to find some direction in his life, is shocked to discover that his unemployed father considers himself a failure.

Whelan, Gloria            Parade of Shadows              WHE YA

In 1907, sixteen-year-old Julia Hamilton, happy to accompany her diplomat father on a tour of the Ottoman-controlled cities of Istambul, Damascus, Palmyra, and Aleppo, soon finds the journey increasingly hazardous as she begins to uncover her father's true mission and the secret motivations of the other travelers in their group.

Williams, Carol Lynch           The Chosen One                                WIL YA

In a polygamous cult in the desert, Kyra, not yet fourteen, sees being chosen to be the seventh wife of her uncle as just punishment for having read books and kissed a boy, in violation of Prophet Childs' teachings, and is torn between facing her fate and running away from all that she knows and loves.

Yoo, Paula                              Good Enough                                                       YOO YA

A Korean American teenager tries to please her parents by getting into an Ivy League college, but a new guy in school and her love of the violin tempt her in new directions.