The Write Stuff

Seventeen-year-old Sydney Wells has been given a second chance at life. Close to dying from heart disease, she receives a donor heart from a girl her age named Mia in a neighboring town who dies in a tragic accident. After eavesdropping on a nurse's conversation and doing some investigating, she's able to discover the donor's name and attends her memorial service and encounters Mia's best friend, Clayton. Knowing he would be creeped out by the idea of her showing up to Mia's

Lucy was very close to her father, especially since her mother supposedly abandoned her at birth. After his death, she was thrust into the foster care system and subsequently ran away, but now her past is catching up to her. Someone wants something from her and is threatening to kill her. Fortunately, Mr. Jameson, a former secret agent and his friend, Daunis, show up to look after her and try to reunite her with her tribe. It turns out that she's half indigenous and never kne

Dani and Alec were best friends growing up, but when they turn 13, her father, a military officer, moves the family. After five years, she returns for her senior year with her mother who has divorced her dad, but they've both changed. He's grown up and is the top hockey player with a chance of going pro while she's a dedicated student determined to get into Harvard. When her need for an extracurricular activity lands her as co-manager for the hockey team, they are thrown back

You may have heard about the Jonestown Massacre...how almost a thousand U.S. citizens committed mass suicide in a jungle in Guyana by drinking Koolaid with cyanide in it because their cult leader, Jim Jones told them, too, but most people don't know the true details of this gruesome event in American history. In this engaging piece of award-winning nonfiction, Candace Fleming separates fact from fiction as she relates the story of Jim Jones from his humble beginnings to the

Bella doesn't have a problem. She just needs to drink a little alcohol to deal with some of the stress she has. It takes the edge off. Her grandmother with whom she was close (and with whome she ocassionally drank) has died, her parents have divorced and still argue, and she wants to make the best grades that she can. It's all a lot. But she keeps insisting to herself and her best friend that she doesn't have a drinking problem...even after she starts hanging out near the liq

A mysterious stranger arrives in the small southern town of Golden. He's from Portugal, but he never shares his last name. He's intrigued by the 92 portraits hanging in the coffeeshop he enters. Each portrait is that of a resident. One by one he buys them, contacts the subject of the portrait, and asks to meet them at the fountain to give them their portrait. What follows is a beautiful story of seeing beyond exteriors, listening to others, building relationships, and embraci

Sophie and Hanna are two teenage girls living in Germany in the 1940s wishing they could hold onto their fairy tale like dreams while hate for others spreads like wildfire due to Nazi propaganda. In 1980 Jenny, an American, finds herself in West Germany near the Berlin Wall befriending a rebellious punk rocker named Lena. And in 2020, best friends Miles and Chloe grapple with the Covid epidemic while trying to solve an 80-year-old mystery involving two missing girls. Award-wi

Hurdles in the Dark is the memoir of a Elvira K. Gonzalez, a Mexican-American in Loredo, Texas who encounters many difficulties in her youth. In 2006, her mother is taken hostage by a drug cartel, and Elvira has to quickly come up with money in order to have her mother released. Subsequently, both Elvira and her mother suffer from PTSD, and their relationship is strained to the point that Elvira ends up in Juvie after a fight. After her release, Elvira is determined to get a

Samira struggles with her immigrant mother's conservative ways. Her mother is protective, and as rumors go around about Samira's wearing revealing clothing and make-up, Samira's mother becomes even more restrictive, hardly allowing Samira to leave the house at all. However, she doesn't protect her from the Internet, and this is where Samira meets Horus, a 25-year-old man who shares her love of poetry. Samira who is enrolled in a poetry program and is a gifted slam poet, is en

A few years after Alaska becomes a state, four teens will grapple with difficult situations. Ruth is pregnant, and her devout Catholic grandmother with whom she lives takes her to an Abbey to live until she can give birth and give up the child for adoption. Dora leaves her alcoholic and abusive parents to live with her best friend who is Native American. Hank also runs away from an abusive parent and stows away on a boat, and Alyce's father has a fishing business he wants Aly

Fall is Whit Rivera's favorite time of year, and she's especially looking forward to it now that she's been selected to organize the fall formal dance, but her personal life is falling apart when she should be enjoying herself. Her boyfriend who moved away no longer seems to have any time for her, she's struggling with PCOS which is causing weight gain and facial hair, and her first love who stood her up on their first and only date has been appointed to work with her on the

As the end of World War II approaches, Edda is struggling as a switchboard operator in Washington D.C. The room she rents is a mess, and she regularly shows up for work late and unkempt. She is struggling and with good reason. Only seven months earlier, she worked near the battle front in France, memorizing many new codes each day and connecting urgent calls that could mean the difference between life and death for troops at the front. She tries not to think about the past an

In this adaptation of an adult nonfiction book of the same title by Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer, attributes and uses of various plants as well as biomes and subtypes of biomes such as estuaries and marshes are provided. Kimmerer, who is a professor of forestry and environmental science and Patowatomi, also shares stories about interesting people she has met over the years who have made an impression on her as well as Native American tales with valuable lessons and Indigenous trad

Mario hadn't planned to go to prom, and he certainly never thought he would end being named prom king, but he is after he ends up taking out a quiet, reserved girl from his class at the request of his mother, but as he's crowned, he realizes there are worms on the crown. After driving around with his date afterward, he ends up being arrested and accused of murdering the prom queen, Maribel Starr, a girl he had once dated and who probably put the worms on the crown. Her long-t

When Kiri Dunsmore emerges from the desert wearing her boyfriend's sweatshirt covered in blood, she's the main suspect in his disappearance, but there's no body to be found. Under a cloud of suspicion, she retreats to her wealthy parents' home. Her boyfriend wasn't just any boy, though. He was Callum Massey, a famous survivalist influencer, so there are plenty of rumors and accusations spreading online. Kiri's former classmate Sam, a true-crime fan, decides to investigate and

A fun-filled class trip to Paris turns into a nightmare when Ruby and three others decide to go to a party in the catacombs without...

When Eden White can't afford her boarding school tuition, she agrees to move into a nearby house to look after a remote learning student...

Sixteen-year-old Milan is having trouble coping with the sudden death of her father, a senator, in a car accident. She keeps getting in...

In 1946 Germany, Eva has just discovered a startling secret about her father, a Nazi working on a top secret project. She is tasked with...

Sixteen-year-old Shur is sitting in class when she suddenly sees what looks like a large butterfly outside the window hovering over the...