Author: Ruth Pennebaker
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)
Keywords: sides
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2000-06-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0805061053
ISBN-13: 9780805061055
Witnessing her mother’s battle with breast cancer, a teenage daughter finds her own strength.Liza’s mother has just completed an exhausting, but promising, treatment for breast cancer and her future looks bright. Liza takes the same approach to her junior year of high school--work hard, think positively, and keep everything under control. When tests reveal that a riskier, more painful treatment is needed, it seems Liza’s mother has given up. But she hasn’t. Her mother’s courage shows Liza that life isn’t about control, it’s about living.Drawing on the
Author: M. E. Kerr
Publisher: HarperTeen
Keywords: sides, slap
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2003-02-01
List price: $5.99
ISBN-10: 0064472744
ISBN-13: 9780064472746
World War II is raging in Europe, but back home in Sweet Creek, Pennsylvania, Bud Shoemaker, a Quaker and a pacifist, has taken a one-man stand against the fight by declaring himself a conscientious objector. Fourteen-year-old Jubal sees his brother’s choice as noble and brave, although most of the town (including Jubal’s dream girl, Daria) sees Bud as a coward -- or worse. The line between right and wrong has become alarmingly blurred, and it won’t be long before Jubal’s family begins to buckle as it struggles to cope with the consequences of Bud’s decision.
Author: John H. Ritter
Publisher: Putnam Juvenile
Keywords: sides, choosing
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2000-04-01
List price: $5.99
ISBN-10: 0698118405
ISBN-13: 9780698118409
Recipient of the 1999 International Reading Association’s "Children’s Book Award." Named an American Library Association "Best Book for Young Adults." Named a 1999 "Blue Ribbon Book" by The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books.
Author: Ronald Harwood
Publisher: Dramatist’s Play Service
Keywords: sides, taking
Number of Pages: 65
Published: 1997-12
List price: $7.50
ISBN-10: 0822215667
ISBN-13: 9780822215660
Author: Gary Soto
Publisher: Sandpiper
Keywords: sides, taking
Number of Pages: 168
Published: 2003-03-01
List price: $5.95
ISBN-10: 0152046941
ISBN-13: 9780152046941
Lincoln is in a jam when his basketball team at his new school--where the students are rich and mostly white--faces his old team from the barrio on the boards. How can he play his best against his friends? No matter who wins, it looks like it will be lose-lose for Lincoln.
Author: Clarence Nero
Publisher: Broadway
Keywords: novel, story, sides, three
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2006-10-03
List price: $13.99
ISBN-10: 0767921364
ISBN-13: 9780767921367
Growing up in the Ninth Ward of New Orleans, Johnny and Tonya meet in high school and fall for each other. Yet their romance falls apart when Johnny seriously injures Tonya’s ex-boyfriend in an altercation. Johnny is imprisoned, and Tonya starts dating a rapper who fulfills her dreams of dancing in videos.Depressed and deflated in jail, Johnny comes back to life thanks to the help of Pandora, the prison’s “den mother,” and James, who helps Johnny study for his GED. What starts as a platonic friendship between the sexually repressed Johnny and the openly gay James soon develops into a t
Author: Michio Kaku
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: sides, power, nuclear
Number of Pages: 284
Published: 1989-01-01
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0393301281
ISBN-13: 9780393301281
