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Body Shot
From the Series The Dojo
Meghan lived through the car crash that killed her mom, but it left her with injuries that ruined her school sports career. Now she's the dojo's toughest female fighter. She just has to avoid Read More →
Box-Office Smash
From the Series The Opportunity
Jason can't believe his luck when he opens the letter from his high school's wealthy alum Harmon Holt telling him he'll be interning on a movie set in LA. Even better, it's with one of his… Read More →
Chart Topper
From the Series The Opportunity
Beth didn't think that the song she posted on YouTube would be noticed by more than a few classmates at Clinton High. She was wrong. Harmon Holt noticed, and now she's an intern at his… Read More →
Darkness Everywhere: The Assassination of Mohandas Gandhi
On January 30, 1948, Mohandas Gandhi, the world's most revered champion of nonviolent civil disobedience, was murdered in cold blood by a man he'd never met. Gandhi was legendary—in his… Read More →
For the Good of Mankind?: The Shameful History of Human Medical Experimentation
Experiment: A child is deliberately infected with the deadly smallpox disease without his parents' informed consent. Result: The world's first vaccine. Experiment: A slave woman is forced… Read More →
Going to Press
From the Series The Opportunity
Lisa Harrison can't believe her luck when she lands an internship with The Rage, New York's hottest music magazine. She's even more amazed when she's assigned to shadow the magazine's star… Read More →
Little Fish: A Memoir from a Different Kind of Year
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 →
Monsters
From the Series The Ashes Trilogy
The Hunger Games mixes with The Walking Dead in this post-apocalyptic YA series that comes to a hair-raising conclusion in Monsters. The Changed are on the move. The Spared are out of time.… Read More →
Recentering the Universe: The Radical Theories of Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, and Newton
In the sixth century B.C.E., the Greek philosopher Anaximander theorized that Earth was at the center of the cosmos. That idea became ingrained in scientific thinking and Christian religious… Read More →
Size 0
From the Series The Opportunity
Thea Roberts has loved making clothes ever since her grandmother taught her to sew. Now her designs have captured the attention of Harmon Holt, a wealthy alum from her high school. Before she Read More →
Spending Spree: The History of American Shopping
Ka-ching! Ever stop to think how our modern-day shopping culture came to be? In the early 1800s, stores were few and far between in the United States. General stores supplied everything from… Read More →
Stolen Luck
From the Series The Dario Quincy Academy of Dance
Kayley's had a run of bad luck. She'd been struggling at dance practice for a while, and then her instructor decided to give Kayley's next role to another girl. Even so, Kayley isn't ready to Read More →
The Campaign
From the Series The Opportunity
Destiny Davis never imagined being an investigative reporter, but her sixth sense for drama and backstabbing caught Mr. Holt's attention, a wealthy alum from her high school. Now she's an… Read More →
The Cursed Ballet
From the Series The Dario Quincy Academy of Dance
Every time the Dario Quincy Academy has performed Giselle, the ballet's lead dancer has died. That's what the rumors say, anyway. But Ophelia doesn't believe in all that. She's determined to… 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 Saints
From the Series Quarantine
A cross between the Gone series and Lord of the Flies, Quarantine #2: The Saints continues this frenetically paced and scary young adult series that illustrates just how deadly high school… 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 →
101 Questions about Blood and Circulation, 2nd Edition: With Answers Straight from the Heart
From the Series 101 Questions . . .
As in previous books in this critically acclaimed series, Brynie polled hundreds of high school students across the country to find out what they wanted to know most about blood and… Read More →
101 Questions about Muscles, 2nd Edition: to Stretch Your Mind and Flex Your Brain
From the Series 101 Questions . . .
How much of a person’s body weight is made up of muscle? Can you learn to control your heart rate using your mind? How does taking steroids affect muscles—and why are steroids dangerous? What Read More →
101 Questions about Reproduction, 2nd Edition: Or How 1 + 1 = 3 or 4 or More
From the Series 101 Questions . . .
How do living things reproduce? How do twins, triplets, and other multiple births happen? How does fertilization occur? Find out in this frank and accessible look at reproduction. Set up in a Read More →
101 Questions about Sex and Sexuality, 2nd Edition: With Answers for the Curious, Cautious, and Confused
From the Series 101 Questions . . .
As in previous books in this critically acclaimed series, Brynie polled hundreds of high school students across the country to find out what they wanted to know most about sex and sexuality.… Read More →
101 Questions about Sleep and Dreams, 2nd Edition: That Kept You Awake Nights...until Now
From the Series 101 Questions . . .
As in previous books in this critically acclaimed series, Brynie polled hundreds of high school students across the country to find out what they wanted to know most about sleep and dreams.… Read More →
101 Questions about Your Immune System, 2nd Edition: You Felt Defenseless to Answer...Until Now
From the Series 101 Questions . . .
As in previous books in this critically acclaimed series, Brynie polled hundreds of high school students across the country to find out what they wanted to know most about their immune… Read More →
A Marked Man: The Assassination of Malcolm X
February 21, 1965. Controversial civil rights leader Malcolm X is gunned down during a speech in Manhattan. Few were shocked by the news of Malcolm X‘s death. Since 1952 the former member of Read More →