3 NBs of Julian Drew

3 NBs of Julian Drew
Author: James M. Deem
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2004
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780618439072

Julian Drew, attempting to cope with the recent death of his mother and an abusive step-mother, writes in a code in three notebooks in which he documents his changing life in code.

Family Disintegration

Family Disintegration
Author: Anton Purcell
Publisher: Nova Publishers
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2002
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9781590330364

The contemporary family is being distracted, disturbed and distraught by societal pressures from every direction. The nuclear family concept, believed crucial to child rearing, is becoming passé according to census data. Or has the wave of disruption to families crested? It is hoped that this bibliography will serve as a useful tool to researchers seeking further information on families and the pressures being exerted upon them in the 21st century.

More Rip-Roaring Reads for Reluctant Teen Readers

More Rip-Roaring Reads for Reluctant Teen Readers
Author: Bette D. Ammon
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 174
Release: 1998-12-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0313077584

Show reluctant teens that reading is not only fundamental-it's also fun! In this companion book to Rip-Roaring Reads for Reluctant Teen Readers, Ammon and Sherman describe 40 exciting, contemporary titles (20 for middle school, 20 for high school) written by outstanding authors. These are books your students won't want to put down. Designed to make the matching process between student and books easy and successful, this volume also includes genre and theme indexes, curriculum activities, interest and readability levels, and reproducible bookmarks for each entry.

Quick and Popular Reads for Teens

Quick and Popular Reads for Teens
Author: Pam Spencer Holley
Publisher: American Library Association
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2009
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 083893577X

Compiles and annotates YALSA's "Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults" and "Quick Picks for Reluctant Readers." Includes theme lists.

Zazoo

Zazoo
Author: Richard Mosher
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2004
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780618439041

Zazoo is Vietnamese by birth but feels entirely French. She has lived with her adoptive Grand-Pierre in France in an old stone mill between the river and the canal since she was two, sharing poetry, adventures, and the predictable rhythms of the seasons. Then one misty October morning, a young man on a bicycle rides into Zazoo’s small village and asks a question from which many stories begin to unfold. A love story within a love story.

Owl in Love

Owl in Love
Author: Patrice Kindl
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2004
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780618439102

Part bird of prey, part teenage girl in love, and now part stalker, Owl Tycho’s life is complicated. It becomes even more so when an inept new shape-shifter appears on the scene. Funny, smart, and supernatural, Owl is a young woman worth getting to know.

48 Shades of Brown

48 Shades of Brown
Author: Nick Earls
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2004
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780618452958

While his parents are in Geneva, sixteen-year-old Dan spends his last year of high school living with his twenty-two-year-old bass-playing aunt, Jacq, and her beautiful friend Naomi, whose active love life is audible through the wall between their bedrooms.

Story for a Black Night

Story for a Black Night
Author: Clayton Bess
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 124
Release: 2004
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780618494835

An African father tells his son about the disaster that followed the night a baby with smallpox was abandoned in his family's house.

Not As Crazy As I Seem

Not As Crazy As I Seem
Author: George Harrar
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2004-10-25
Genre: Death
ISBN: 9780618494804

This sensitive yet humorous look at a boy's struggle with obsessive compulsive disorder is now in paperback. "A fine and entertaining story."--"VOYA."