Author: Sarah Desse
Publisher: Speak
Keywords: reissue, dreamland
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2004-05-11
List price: $8.99
ISBN-10: 0142401757
ISBN-13: 9780142401750

Strange, sleepy Rogerson, with his long brown dreads and brilliant green eyes, had seemed to Caitlin to be an open door. With him she could be anybody, not just the second-rate shadow of her older sister, Cass. But now she is drowning in the vacuum Cass left behind when she turned her back on her family’s expectations by running off with a boyfriend. Caitlin wanders in a dream land of drugs and a nightmare of Rogerson’s sudden fists, lost in her search for herself. Why do so many girls allow themselves to get into abusive relationships--and what keeps them there? In this riveting n

Authors:Jane Yolen, Robert Harri,
Publisher: Speak
Keywords: quartet, stewart, cage, girl
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2004-08-19
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 0142401323
ISBN-13: 9780142401323

When her father, Robert the Bruce, becomes King of Scotland, Marjorie Bruce becomes a princess. But Edward Longshanks, the ruthless King of England, has set his sights on Robert and his family. Marjorie is captured and imprisoned in a wooden cage in the center of a town square, exposed to wind, rain, the taunts of the townspeople, and the scorn of Longshanks himself. Marjorie knows that despite her suffering and pain, she is the daughter of noble Robert the Bruce&150and she will make her father, and her country, proud. For a true princess is a princess, whether in a castle or in a cage.

Author: J. A. Yang
Publisher: Speak
Keywords: chloe, exclusively
Number of Pages: 245
Published: 2009-05-14
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0142412260
ISBN-13: 9780142412268

Chloe-Grace can’t help it - she’s spectacular. How could she not be with celebrity parents who have been the queen and king of Hollywood for years? And Chloe is a celebrity all unto herself as well - she’s the first celebrity-adopted kid in Hollywood. But now Chloe’s sixteen, and she is tired of every undesired moment of the world’s attention. She wonders what it would be like to be a "normal" kid in a regular school. To really understand it, though, she would need to go undercover. So after getting a "make-under" at the hands of her mother’s fabulous stylis

Author: Gayle Forma
Publisher: Speak
Keywords:
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2010-04-06
List price: $8.99
ISBN-10: 014241543X
ISBN-13: 9780142415436

An Interview with Gayle Forman Q: You started your career as a journalist and your first book is a travelogue about going around the world. Is YA literature a departure for you? Gayle Forman: Actually, it’s more of a homecoming. My first writing job was at Seventeen, where I spent five years on staff and as a contributor reporting the magazine’s social-issues stories. I loved writing for teens then because—contrary to popular opinion—they really care about serious issues (from child soldiers in Africa to kids embroiled in the drug war here) and the engage in their readin

Author: Catherine Atki
Publisher: Speak
Keywords: alt
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2004-09-09
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 0142402354
ISBN-13: 9780142402351

Susan Calloway, bullied and overweight, faces daily humiliation at the hands of her classmates—and she’s had enough. With her anger about to reach the boiling point, Susan lands in an alternative education class, a sort of group therapy for the nearly expelled. School is bad enough, but facing off with five peers, including her cruelest tormentor, is worse. Now Susan is being forced to do something she’s always avoided—talk about herself and listen to what other people have to say about her. She has two choices: find her voice, or be prepared to take the insults in silence. It won’t be ea

Author: Kieran Scott
Publisher: Speak
Keywords: cheerleader, blonde, non
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2007-09-06
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0142409103
ISBN-13: 9780142409107

Annisa Gobrowski has a problem—everyone at her new high school in Florida is blonde. If Annisa’s Jersey attitude doesn’t make her stand out enough, her dark pixie haircut sure does. Yet no lack of golden highlights is going to stop Annisa from making the best of Sand Dune High, especially once she checks out the competition-level cheerleading squad.

Author: Kieran Scott
Publisher: Speak
Keywords: magnet, geek
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2009-05-14
List price: $8.99
ISBN-10: 0142414174
ISBN-13: 9780142414170

Everybody loves KJ. Especially the geeks. See, KJ Miller is super nice, smart, pretty, the stage manager of her high school’s spring musical . . . and a total geek magnet. She’s like the geek pied piper of Washington High, drawing every socially clueless guy in a five-mile radius. If only Cameron, the hottest guy in school, would follow her around and worship her the way her entourage of dorks do. Enter Tama Gold, queen of the popular crowd, and solution to all of KJ’s problems. KJ is too nice, and the nice girl never gets the guy. Tama’s ready to help KJ get cruel, ditch the dorks, and wi