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From Schneider Award-winning author Shannon Stocker comes a moving and empowering YA novel that explores what it means to find your voice and learn to advocate for yourself. Twyla has always believed things happen for a reason, but when she starts having severe health issues and doctors won’t listen to her concerns, she finds herself questioning everything, including her diagnosis … and wondering if her mother’s death holds the answer. Twyla enters high school sure of three things: Her best fri...

Everything was supposed to be perfect. Alyssa has a job she loves, working as Cinderella at her favourite theme park, a fantastic group of friends and a boyfriend who will no longer be long distance. But as the summer progresses, her prince becomes less charming and more distant, and Alyssa's perfect summer falls apart. Forced to acknowledge that life is not always a fairy tale, Alyssa starts working to pull her herself back together. Fortunately, she doesn't have to do it alone. With her frien...

Kelen Tamurian is a high school senior living in Washington state and an aspiring activist for human rights. She has struggled with her mental health and for most of her life felt that she wasn't good enough. Over the last year, she has found her writing style and she felt called to share the story of Hope, a young teenage girl in high school who doesn't feel good enough in any facet of her life.Through her book, SIMPLY Not ENOUGH, Kelen is demonstrating that this feeling is so universal as she...

Shortly after her first kiss but before her sixteenth birthday in December, 1941, Marie Claire and her younger brother and sister are sent to a tuberculosis sanatorium near their Manitoba farm.

For fans of John Green and Rainbow Rowell comes this powerful novel with the most fearless heroine-self-proclaimed fat girl Willowdean Dickson-from Julie Murphy, the acclaimed author of Side Effects May Vary. With starry Texas nights, red candy suckers, Dolly Parton songs, and a wildly unforgettable heroine-Dumplin' is guaranteed to steal your heart. Dubbed "Dumplin'" by her former beauty queen mom, Willowdean has always been at home in her own skin. Her thoughts on having the ultimate bikini b...

Sixteen-year-old Tiffany Sly s psyche was seriously damaged by the death of her mom. Now, she s afraid just about anything and everything will lead to her imminent death. It doesn t help that she s being forced to leave Chicago behind to live with the biological father she s never met before. And that the day before she s set to leave for California, another man shows up at her door, claiming he could be her biological father too.

"Kyle doesn't see much game time. Mike is more successful-even if he's taken some hits. When Kyle realizes a hole in the concussion detection program, he has to decide whether to tell his friend"--