Author: Kelly Easton

Seventeen-year-old Adam and his parents are driving home to Rhode Island from a peace rally in Seattle when the accident happens. In a single, horrible moment, his parents are gone. And Adam is alone.

In a speechless s ...

Author: Kathryn Lasky

In this all-new, deeply moving companion to "The Night Journey," it is now 1897 and Reuven Bloom is 15 years old. When his parents and older sister are murdered by the Tsar's army, Reuven decides to escape to America wit ...

Author: William Boniface

The hottest new fitness trend is pumping up ... down under the sea. Max is back and he's bigger than ever. In fact the little guy is helping everyone bulk up as the King of Fitness Fun. But success can be a heady thing f ...

Author: Deborah Hopkinson

I believe I can just see you on the streets of that bright city.
Gran's gone now, but her words live on with Nicholas Dray, almost twelve, as he makes his way from the hot cotton fields to that Queen of Cities: San F ...

Author: James Patterson

In James Patterson's blockbuster series, fourteen-year-old Maximum Ride, better known as Max, knows what it's like to soar above the world. She and all the members of the "flock"--Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gasman and Angel--are ...

Author: James Patterson

Fourteen-year-old Maximum Ride and the other members of the "Flock"--Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gasman and Angel--are just like ordinary kids--only they have wings and can fly. It seems like a dream come true--except that they'r ...

Author: Graham Salisbury

DYLAN'S SCOUT TROOP goes camping in Halape, a remote spot below the volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii. The only thing wrong with the weekend on a beautiful, peaceful beach is Louie, a tough older boy. Louie and Dylan j ...

Author: Raquel Rivera

'A hunter knows he is never alone.' She had heard Father say that once.
Aneze looked into the trees. She spoke out loud to the bush. 'There's always you, Chickadee, ' she said to the small birds skittering above. 'A ...

Author: Robert J Blake

For as long as he could remember, Johnnie has longed to go off hunting with Pa and their dog, Swift. Now the much-anticipated day has arrived, but Johnnieas first hunt comes to an abrupt end when a grizzly bear attacks P ...

Author: Gary Paulsen

IN THE OLD DAYS THERE WERE SONGS

Something is bothering Russel Susskit. He hates waking up to the sound of his father's coughing, the smell of diesel oil, the noise of snow machines starting up.

Only Oogruk, the sham ...

Author: Robert C O'Brien

Seemingly the only person left alive after a nuclear war, a sixteen-year-old girl is relieved to see a man arrive into her valley until she realizes that he is a tyrant and she must somehow escape.

Author: Gail Langer Karwoski

It is before daybreak on April 18, 1906. Jacob Kaufman slips out of the wooden boarding house where he lives with his immigrant father and little sister Sophie. His father's harsh words still ring in his ears. Suddenly t ...

Author: Matthew Whyman

Hypothermia is never far away.

When the shivering stops, that's when you should start to worry. It's your body's way of signaling that it's lost the battle to keep your blood warm. But by then you'll be too weak to ret ...

Author: Bev Cooke

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, ...

Author: Craig Moodie

THE BOAT IS SINKING. YOU HAVE TO MOVE.

When Luke's sailing trip goes horribly wrong, he must face the vast and brutal sea in this story of one boy's survival and coming-of-age. On the evening before Luke's family's an ...

Author: M H Herlong

Ben, Dylan, and Gerry are still mourning their motheras death when their dad decides to buy a boat and take them on a year-long sailing trip. Tensions flare between Ben and his father, but they gradually learn to live to ...

Author: N D Wilson

ELEVEN-YEAR-OLD THOMAS HAMMOND has always lived next to Leepike Ridge. He never imagined he might end up lost beneath it! What Tom finds underground will answer questions he hadn't known to ask and change his life foreve ...

Author: Bear Grylls

Lost in the jungle! Beck Granger is on a trip to Colombia in his school holidays. His anthropologist uncle has taken him along on a visit to Don Rafael de Castillo, a descendent of a great explorer who is claimed to have ...

Author: Lee Roddy

After an unknown teenage Hawaiian surfer saves Josh Ladd from drowning, he is surprised when two rough-looking men chase him off so that he cannot even talk to his rescuer. When Josh persists in trying to be friends, he ...

Author: Graham Salisbury

DYLAN'S SCOUT TROOP goes camping in Halape, a remote spot below the volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii. The only thing wrong with the weekend on a beautiful, peaceful beach is Louie, a tough older boy. Louie and Dylan j ...