Grade 10

Hiram's father forbids violence. It's against their family's beliefs. Even so, Hiram has been sneaking out to the Woodrat Club, where bareknuckle fighters compete and shady deals go down.… Read More →

A suspenseful and poignant exploration of family dynamics and gender roles in today’s China. Nineteen-year-old Na has always lived in the shadow of her younger brother, Bao-bao, her parents'… Read More →

Rory is a talented and dedicated softball player. The only distraction in her life is her father’s decline due to ALS, but he remains her biggest supporter. But softball plans get a lot more Read More →

Do you know why a 10-ton boat floats but a tiny pebble sinks? Or why a hot air balloon will rise, but when you inflate a balloon it drops to the ground? From Archimedes and Boyle to Pascal… Read More →

Told through real-life journals, collages, lists, and drawings, this coming-of-age story illustrates the transformation of an 18-year-old girl from a small-town teenager into an independent… Read More →

The four March sisters—Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy—face good times and bad while growing up in a small New England town. Their father is away, serving as a chaplain for the Union in the Civil War, Read More →

Twenty-first-century minimalism is an increasingly mainstream response to global environmental crises such as climate change, the garbage glut, fast fashion, and other manifestations of the… Read More →

Los Angeles. 1943. The summer of the Zoot Suit Riots. Flaca and Cuata have a problem. It's bigger than being grounded by their strict ma. It's bigger than fights with the soldiers stationed… Read More →

Managing debt and credit is a vital part of financial literacy. This book teaches teenagers how to understand loans, navigate credit, and use these tools to their advantage. It breaks down… Read More →

After aliens attack Earth, Sanjay is trapped inside his high school. A local group puts the school on lockdown, claiming they're looking out for the students. But when the teachers start to… Read More →

When he was fifteen, Kevin took a car for a joyride and got in an accident that seriously injured a pedestrian. Now known as "Strider" in juvie, he has spent more than two years incarcerated, Read More →

The Fresh Start Lock-In was supposed to bring the students of Bridgewater closer together. Jackie didn't think it would work, but she didn't think she'd have to fight for her life, either. A… Read More →

In this romance set in the world of gaming, a lonely teen finds himself crushing on a girl—both in his favorite video game and in real life. In Kristopher Mielke’s romance set in the world of Read More →

Trans teen Journey has the chance to play an epic game of Dungeons & Dragons. Surprise encounters are common in D&D, but what Journey doesn't expect is to reconnect with an ex-friend… Read More →

A travesty. A violation. An ecstasy. A disappointment. An instant. A lie. A theft. A rite of passage. Whatever you call it, there's only one first time. A.S. King, Melvin Burgess, Keith… Read More →

Claudia Jones is missing. Her classmates are thinking the worst . . . or at least the weirdest. It couldn't be an alien abduction, right? None of Claudia's classmates at Blithedale High know Read More →

"I don't realize I'm crying until he glances at me. For a moment, I see the look of anguish in his eyes, then he blinks it away and slips off into the water. I immediately think of the gator. Read More →

A quiet, hardworking man, Lou Gehrig is one of the most underrated baseball players of all time. Although he repeatedly outscored, outhit, and outplayed his teammates Babe Ruth and Joe… Read More →

Alex, a Latino transgender teen, is struggling to balance his feelings for a real-life crush on a Jewish boy in his class and the relationship he has with a boy he knows online—only to find… Read More →

Insecure about her body and unhappy at home, Emmy will do anything to be liked. But after rumors spread about her sexual experience, Emmy leaves her hometown to stay with family in Vancouver. Read More →