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Five troubled teenagers fall into prostitution as they search for freedom, safety, community, family, and love.

For fans of Jodi Picoult and Anna Quindlen, comes an “astonishingly profoundexquisitely written drama” (Caroline Leavitt, New York Times bestselling author of Pictures of You) about a husband and a wife, a missing child, and the complicated family secrets that can derail even the best of marriages. Its been a busyand expensivefew years for Matt and Elise Sorenson and their young daughter Gracie, whom they affectionately call Little Green. Matt,...

The family routine is upset during Ramona's year in second grade when her father unexpectedly loses his job--Résumé de l'éditeur. Littérature de jeunesse en langue anglaise.

Thirteen-year-old Elvira worries about her future when, after a fight, her father heads to Las Vegas for an Elvis impersonator competition and her pregnant mother takes her and her younger sister to Memphis to visit a grandmother the girls have never met.

It all starts when six kids have to meet for a weekly chat--by themselves, with no adults to listen inches There, in the room they soon dub the ARTT Room (short for "A Room to Talk"), they discover it's safe to talk about what's bothering them--everything from Esteban's father's deportation and Haley's father's incarceration to Amari's fears of racial profiling and Ashton's adjustment to his changing family fortunes. When the six are together, they...

Discovering dinosaur bones on her family's Texas peach farm, a 12-year-old girl finds herself surrounded by people who may not have her best interests at heart.

Sixteen-year-old identical twin daughters of a district court judge and a candidate for the United States House of Representatives, Kaeleigh and Raeanne Gardella desperately struggle with secrets that have already torn them and their family apart.

Eleven-year-old Indigo, her mother, and her toddler sister have to move out of their apartment because of troubles with Mum's boyfriend, while Indie is also having best friend problems at school, leaving her stressed, confused, and lonely.

At the family cabin by the lake where his grandfather died two years ago, eleven-year-old Cooper Cameron spends the summer trying to rid himself of the rituals that allow him to cope with his grief and fear.

From the author of critically acclaimed Like Magic comes another sweet middle grade story about friendship, family, and discovering where you fit in the world. Katie and Ana are the kind of friends who share everything with each other. But there are some things you cant even share with your best friend.Katie has always known she was adopted, but recently shes been wondering about her birth parents and her birthplace. She worries that saying this out...