How to survive being good Like a flashback memory, he’s there in my mind: skimming up the stairs at school, his sloppy old T-shirt big as a sail, red...

For Miriam Fisher, a budding poet who reads the Oxford English Dictionary for fun, seventh grade is a year etched in her memory “clear as pain.” That’s the...

"...gripping story of middle-school bullying may call to mind Spinelli’s Stargirl (2000) Anderson’s Speak..."

Fifteenth anniversary of the classic On the fifteenth anniversary of the publication of The Goats, Farrar, Straus and Giroux is proud to reissue a new...

"At the start of his senior year, Joe Brickman expects to be the star of his high school soccer team and finally work up the courage to ask out his neighbor,...

Hector is being hectored by an unlikely bully: a talking brain tumor. And it’s not just a talking brain tumor. It’s a know-it-all, pain-in-the-arse,...

"...Hector is being hectored by an unlikely bully: a talking brain tumor. And it’s not just a talking brain tumor. It’s a know-it-all, pain-in-the-arse,.... Hector is being hectored by an unlikely bully: a talking brain tumor. And it’s not just a talking brain tumor. It’s a know-it-all, pain-in-the-arse, jibber-jabbering brain tumor that names itself Jack, and insists on coaching Hector through life even as it’s threatening to take his life away. It’s a pretty good coach, actua..."

Throwing light on a dark problem Parkland Middle School is a place the students call Darkland, because no one in it does much to stop the daily harassment...

"...the daily harassment of kids by other kids. Three bullied seventh graders use their smarts to get..."

Hunter has never had anyone to look out for him. His mother gave him away when he was young, he’s never known his father, and his foster mother leaves a lot to...

Kit is a bored sixteen-year-old with nothing to do one summer when he starts feeding stray cats. He loves it when cool, artistic Jess helps him out, even...

A graphic novel jam-packed with the joys and humiliations of being a teenage girl Girl Stories began as a series of comics drawn for the teen girls’ Web...

"..., surviving embarrassing parents, bullies from hell, best friends, boyfriends, breakups, and trying too..."