Summary: As Kofi, Arielle, Dana, November, and Jericho face personal challenges during their last year of high school, a misunderstood student brings a gun to class and demands to be taken seriously.
280 pages, Atheneum
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Just Another Hero by Sharon Draper
May 5, 2009Why I Fight by J Adams Oaks
April 21, 2009
Summary: After his house burns down, twelve-year-old Wyatt Reaves takes off with his uncle, and the two of them drive from town to town for six years, earning money mostly by fighting, until Wyatt finally confronts his parents one last time.
228 pages, Atheneum
Outside Beauty by Cynthia Kadohata
October 3, 2008
Summary: Thirteen-year-old Shelby and her three sisters must go to live with their respective fathers while their mother, who has trained them to rely on their looks, recovers from a car accident that scarred her face. 265 p., Atheneum Books for Young Readers.
Three Little Words by Ashley Rhodes-Courter
April 30, 2008
Summary: Ashley spent nine years in foster care after being taken away from her mother. She endured many caseworkers, moving from school to school and manipulative, humiliating and abusive treatment from one foster family. See how she survives and eventually thrives against the odds. 304 p., Atheneum.
