When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers. This ancient proverb of the Kikuyu people, a tribal group in Kenya, Africa, is as true today as when the words were first spoken, perhaps thousands ...

Governor General's Literary Award winner 2009 CLA Children's Book of the Year Award shortlist, 2009 Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People 2009 finalist Manitoba Young Readers' ...

“I hate the world and everything in it. And that includes me. ”

Asked to write something for English class that expresses who he really is, 16-year-old Carson takes pleasure in blistering the page ...

After his guardian dies, Maurey is reduced from student to unpaid servant at his grammar school and bullied because of his black hair and eyes, which make him look as if he is related to the sorcerers ...

A quirky collection of stories about teens in lust and in love. From the first stirrings of same-sex desire to paternity questions around a teen pregnancy, 101 Ways to Dance reflects the spectrum of ...

"[The Groundwork Guides] are excellent books, mandatory for school libraries and the increasing body of young people prepared to take ownership of the situations and problems previous generations have ...

In spite of its name, no one in the tiny troubled hamlet of Nanurtalik “the place with polar bears” can remember seeing a polar bear in decades. But when a teenager’s dismembered body is discovered ...