When Joey’s mother is killed he is sent to live with the father he never met – Ken Harnett. In addition to dealing with the grief of losing his mother, he has to suffer through high school as the new kid where he immediately becomes the target of ridicule and pranks. No one in town [Keep Reading]
Lucky Linderman just wants to get through the day without seeing Nadar McMillan. Ever since he was seven years old and Nadar peed on his sandals Lucky has tried to stay out of his way. It hasn’t worked though. No matter what he does, he always ends up on the wrong end of Nadar’s fist. [Keep Reading]
A person can only take being treated like dirt for so long. Str-S-d (Stressed) has had it. She creates a blog in order to vent her frustrations and post reasons why the “popular” kids at school are making her life miserable. At first she just complains about things in general, but it doesn’t take long [Keep Reading]
Maisie has always been best friends with Shakes, Chris, and Kevin. She hasn’t ever had “girl” friends and it has never seemed strange to her that she always hung out with the three boys. They treated her just like one of the guys – until Maisie goes away for a year to live with her [Keep Reading]
It’s been 18 months since Ally Ryan has lived in Orchard Hill and she is nervous about moving back. She doesn’t know how her friends are going to welcome her back after she left without even saying goodbye to them. Ally didn’t have any warning the night her and her parents left town. With her [Keep Reading]
Before Nick Gautier was a Squire for Kyrian Hunter and way before he ran into trouble with Ash, he was a ninth grader on a scholarship at prestigious private school. He is willing to put up with the constant harassment from his classmates because of the ridiculous clothes his mother buys for him and the [Keep Reading]
Atheneum – February 9, 2010 NOTHING by Janne Teller is a dark and disturbing story of a group of Danish seventh graders who are forced to define “meaning.” When one of their classmates leaves school one day after he announces, “Nothing matters,” they pull together to find a way to prove he is wrong. The [Keep Reading]
