Kids Book Index
Julie Buxbaum
Jessie starts her junior year at an intimidating prep school in Los Angeles after moving across the country. Her mother died less than two years earlier, and her father has married a woman he met online. Jessie now lives with her stepmother and her stepbrother. At her new high school, an anonymous emailer offers friendship, leaving Jessie to decide whether that person can be trusted.
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Reproductive Rights: Who Decides?Vicki Oransky WittensteinThis history traces efforts to control reproduction from early practices involving herbs and rituals to major twentieth-century debates in the United States. It covers restrictions that once barred discussion, use, or distribution of birth control in some places, as well as campaigns for legal access to contraception and the arrival of the Pill. The account also considers the Supreme Court decision recognizing a constitutional right to abortion and connects these developments to disputes over contraception, sex education, and abortion. Photographs and substantial back matter accompany the discussion.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
The Smell of Other People’s HousesBonnie-Sue HitchcockSet in Alaska during the 1970s, this novel is told through four voices whose stories connect with one another. The teenagers’ lives include secrets, dreams, danger, hardship, tragedy, unexpected luck, love, and salvation. Their accounts portray an Alaska presented as unlike anywhere else, where life is not easy and people are not encouraged to speak openly about themselves. As the separate narrators’ experiences intersect, the book traces intertwined lives shaped by difficult circumstances and hope.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Tell Us Something TrueDana ReinhardtAfter his girlfriend breaks up with him, River Dean wanders into a teen support center. There, he pretends to be an addict, unintentionally entering the group under false circumstances. River is brokenhearted, and the situation eventually brings him face to face with his own abandonment issues. Set on the streets of Los Angeles, the novel follows his response to the breakup and the consequences of the identity he assumes at the center. It is a coming-of-age story about emotional pain and self-confrontation.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details