Coming Of Age
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The Catch
From the Series Travel Team
When Danny makes "the catch," everyone seems interested in him. Girls text him, kids ask for autographs, and his highlight play even makes it on SportsCenter's Top Plays. A sports-gear… Read More →
The Clutch
From the Series Gridiron
In his first game as quarterback for his high school football team, Jordan Bailey Jr. let loose one of the most spectacular passes the school had ever seen. Even though everyone is… Read More →
The Disturbed Girl's Dictionary
A 2019 YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults Selection A 2018 New York Public Library Best Book for Teens Macy's school officially classifies her as "disturbed," but Macy isn't interested in… Read More →
The Extra Point
From the Series Gridiron
After she gets cut from the soccer team her senior year, Riley doesn't know what to do. She had the best kick on the team but wasn't fast enough. When the high school football team is in… Read More →
The Franchise
From the Series The Opportunity
Latrell Baker's scientific approach to football—watching football—has finally paid off. Harmon Holt heard about the algorithm he developed for determining best defensive play, and now… Read More →
The Freak Observer
The Freak Observer is rich in family drama, theoretical physics, and an unusual, tough young woman—Loa Lindgren. For eight years, Loa Sollilja's world ran like one of those mechanical models… Read More →
The Knife and the Butterfly
After a marijuana-addled brawl with a rival gang, 16-year-old Azael wakes up to find himself surrounded by a familiar set of concrete walls and a locked door. Juvie again, he thinks. But he… Read More →
The Late Hit
From the Series Gridiron
With talk of their high school shutting down for good, Busby and his best friend Anton know that it might be up to their football team to save the school. With such high stakes, is it worth… Read More →
The Opportunity — Audisee®—Fluent Set
From the Series The Opportunity
What would you do with the chance of a lifetime? Every year, a wealthy and mysterious media tycoon lets an African American high school student from his alma mater answer that question.… Read More →
The Opportunity — Hardcover Set
From the Series The Opportunity
What would you do with the chance of a lifetime? Every year, a wealthy and mysterious media tycoon lets an African American high school student from his alma mater answer that question.… Read More →
The Opportunity — Paperback Set
From the Series The Opportunity
What would you do with the chance of a lifetime? Every year, a wealthy and mysterious media tycoon lets an African American high school student from his alma mater answer that question.… Read More →
The Option
From the Series The Red Zone
On any other team, Gary Jayo would be a starting quarterback. But because he plays for the Troy Central High Trojans, he lives his life in the shadow of Shane Hunter. Shane is a high school… Read More →
The Prospect
From the Series Travel Team
Nick Cosimo eats, breathes, and lives baseball. He's a place-hitting catcher with a cannon for an arm and a calculator for a brain. Thanks to his keen eye, Nick is able to pick apart his… Read More →
The Summer Between Us
This coming-of-age story follows 18-year-old Adrian Carter as he graduates from high school and confronts difficult decisions about his future. As Adrian navigates the emotional highs and… Read More →
The Weight of Everything
It’s been six months since Sarah’s mom died. Three months since her dad fell apart. Sarah has left her fine arts boarding school to take care of her dad and her little brother, and now she’s… Read More →
Triangle Choke
From the Series The Dojo
Hector's father used to be a Golden Gloves champion boxer. Now he's an unemployed alcoholic. Hector is trying to stay focused on winning his first amateur MMA fight, but it's not easy when… Read More →
Truth and Nothing But
From the Series The Sharp Sisters
The Sharp sisters are bold, bright, sassy, stylin', and fierce. As the daughters of mayoral candidate Stanley Sharp, all eyes are on them as they attend high school. Every choice they make… Read More →
Turn Up for Real
From the Series The Sharp Sisters
Slade, Stanley Sharp's middle daughter, feels like the odd one out. All she wants is a group of friends who aren't her sisters—and a record deal. But after losing the Teen Miss Charlotte… Read More →
Ultraviolet
“Once upon a time there was a girl who was special. This is not her story. Unless you count the part where I killed her.” Sixteen-year-old Alison wakes up in a mental institution. As she… Read More →
Underwater
Twelve-year-old Gabe has ambitions to be the next Jacques Cousteau...or Bill Gates...or who? Gabe's anxiety about growing up is matched by his fear that he'll be crazy (like his brother). But Read More →
What Can't Wait
“Another day finished,gracias a Dios.” Seventeen-year-old Marisa’s mother has been saying this for as long as Marisa can remember. Her parents came to Houston from Mexico. They work hard,… Read More →