Even though she is teased by a boy at school for being different, Lucy has the courage to be herself and comes to the boy's aid when he is in need of help.

At an exclusive East Coast boarding school, when seventeen-year-old sophisticated troublemaker Zoey Spalding plays a game with the class list--if you lose your virginity you get a star by your name--it sets in motion a chain of shocking events that leads to murder.

Almost thirteen-year-old Evan Goldman learns what it means to be a man when his parents separate and he and his mother move from New York City to Appleton, Indiana, right before his bar mitzvah.

"Hazel doesn't like to make waves. Middle school is hard enough without causing more trouble, right? She's happy just eating lunch in the library with her BFF, writing secret haikus, and taking care of an adorable rescue tortoise. But then Hazel discovers a list that rates the girls at her middle school based on their looks -- started by her best friend's older brother. She knows she has to do something, and she can't do it alone. The wave she'll...

Alternating journal entries chronical the powerful fight for Mellie's right to choose after she becomes pregnant by rape.

"When Stephen moves to the small Midwestern town where his father grew up, he quickly falls in with punk girl Cara and her charismatic twin brother Devon. But the town has a dark secret, and the twins are caught in the middle of it."--

Jack and Gina let the teasing of a classmate stop them from wearing their glasses until a class field trip makes them change their minds.

After buying one outrageous hat after another in an attempt to keep up with the latest fashions set by his teasing animal friends, Harbet the dog learns that true happiness comes from being yourself.

"Lured on by his freshman classmate and friend (dubbed Mole by most), Tod Whitney believes he's taken the easy route through life when he hops onto Mole's fast track fueled by dishonesty and bullying. But has he? Gradually, Tod's natural instincts are noticeably at odds with Mole's. The highs that Mole experiences when the pair inflicts cruelty on others are Tod's lows—lows that still haunt him three and a half years later when, as a high school...

A young macaque monkey living in the mountains of Japan gets into trouble when she follows the lead of a mischief-maker. Includes discussion questions on peer pressure and information on Japanese folk textiles.