Washoe County Library System

Ever since he was a young boy, eight-year-old Christian Larou has dreamed of becoming a great soccer player of the likes of Cristiano Ronaldo. With his father MIA at war and his mother critical in the hospital, and consoling himself with dreams of playing in the youth soccer league, Christian is about to face the biggest challenges of his life.

"Burundi, 1992. For ten-year-old Gabriel, life in his comfortable expatriate neighborhood of Bujumbura with his French father, Rwandan mother and little sister Ana, is something close to paradise. These are carefree days of laughter and adventure--sneaking Supermatch cigarettes and gorging on stolen mangoes--as he and his mischievous gang of friends transform their tiny cul-de-sac into their kingdom. But dark clouds are gathering over this small country,...

"On the first snow of the season, Jim and Scott and their classmates build an enormous snowman fort " -- Provided by publisher.

Missing his friends after moving with his family to a crumbling Victorian house, Kenny discovers a mummified baby behind a wall and a note begging for his help before meeting a girl who helps him move through time to fight a legendary murderer.

Preferring to be a dog instead of a boy despite his parents' efforts to convince him otherwise, Harry barks, bites, and rolls around until he is sent to an academy for dogs, where he struggles to follow the school's dog-training methods.

Provides information to help boys better understand puberty and the challenges of growing up, and includes tips, quizzes, and answers to questions.

Transformed into the size of a bee, a curious young boy spends the day learning all about them, setting his world abuzz as he forms an idea about how to make his new friends’ lives even sweeter.

Why would anyone choose to live on the streets? There is Eeyore, just twelve years old when she runs away from her priveleged home, harboring a secret she's too ashamed to tell anyone. Rusty is a sensitive gay teen who winds up alone when his older boyfriend ditches him in Hollywood. Squid has gone through too many foster homes to count. There's Scabius, a delusional punk from Utah who takes the "me against the world" motto to dangerous extremes....

"Stamping, whomping, stealing, singing, tap-dancing, violating, Derby-topped hooligan Alex has a good time -- at the tragic expense of others. His journey from amoral punk to brainwashed proper citizen and back again forms the dynamic arc of Stanley Kubrick's future-shock vision of the Anthony Burgess novel"--Container.