Posts Tagged ‘teens-13-16’
I am the Messenger
After capturing a bank robber, nineteen-year-old cab driver Ed Kennedy begins receiving mysterious messages that direct him to addresses where people need help, and he begins getting over his lifelong feeling of worthlessness.
Read MoreSecret Path
Gord Downie creates a concept album that tells the true story of Chanie Wenjack, an Indigenous boy who died in 1996, trying to escape one of Canada’s residential schools.
Read MoreThe Comeback Season
Baseball brings them together—but will his secret keep them apart? Find out in this heartbreakingly beautiful novel from Jennifer E. Smith, author of The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight. The last place Ryan Walsh should be this afternoon is on a train heading to Wrigley Field. She should be in class, enduring yet…
Read MoreThe Distance From Me to You
McKenna and her best friend planned for over a year to defer their freshman year of college to hike the Appalachian Trail all the way from Maine to Georgia, so when her friend backs out McKenna embarks alone on a physical and emotional journey that will change her life forever.
Read MoreStealing Bases
Softball star Kylie Collins wants to put her mean-girl past behind her and focus on Division One recruitment, but a new star pitcher and her cheating ex-boyfriend Zachary may cause her to return to her old ways.
Read MoreMaking Waves
When Abby has the opportunity to be a lifeguard at the Beachwood Country Club, where her friends spend their summers in lounge chairs, sipping lemonade, and gazing at boys, she realizes that there is more to the job than she anticipated.
Read MoreLast Shot
In this follow-up to Rocket Blues, Rocket is drafted in the OHL tryouts and heads off to training camp in his pursuit of one day becoming a hockey legend! Now almost 16 years old, Rocket has been drafted by an OHL team in the 13th round. His mom however has different plans for his future…
Read MoreIce Time
Rocket has finally achieved his dream – he’s been drafted to the NHL! Following a great Major Junior career, Rocket is drafted in the NHL draft! However, the scouts still feel that Rocket needs some retooling to be an NHLer. He is sent to the AHL for seasoning, and told he should hit the weight…
Read MoreRocket Blues
When Rocket gets cut from his AAA bantam hockey team, he needs to re-evaluate his priorities. Bryan Rockwood (aka “Rocket”) is faced with the unthinkable: being cut from the Huskies — the AAA hockey team he has played on for three years. With no other teams interested in him, Bryan reluctantly joins a AA team,…
Read MoreThis is what Happy Looks Like
If fate sent you an email, would you answer? When teenage movie star Graham Larkin accidentally sends small town girl Ellie O’Neill an email about his pet pig, the two seventeen-year-olds strike up a witty and unforgettable correspondence, discussing everything under the sun, except for their names or backgrounds. Then Graham finds out that Ellie’s…
Read More