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In this graphic memoir, the author recounts the struggles of middle school and how a three-week European group trip transformed his life in positive ways at the age of thirteen.

Both a Mars rover and the daughter of a NASA scientist struggle to find the resilience to overcome their troubles through space and time.

This award-winning nonfiction book details the rescue of twelve soccer players and their coach from a flooded cave in Thailand.

Californian sixth graders Isaac Castillo and Marco Honeyman describe how their best friendship helps them through their troubles at home and in school.

On a summer camping trip in Massachusetts, twelve-year-old best friends Eric Stein and Dani Meyer are shaken up by a fiery explosion.

Set in the 1960s, eleven-year-old Ariel Goldberg travels to New York City in hopes of reuniting her family after her older sister Leah elopes with Raj, an Indian immigrant.

Unable to share her troubled feelings with anyone, twelve-year-old Iveliz Margarita Snow Medina addresses her journal in poems that describe her life in Maryland.

Seventh graders Link, Michael, and Dana start a project to bring people together and figure out who's responsible for a string of recent antisemitic hate crimes in their small town.

After her grandfather becomes sick, eleven-year-old Maizy moves from Los Angeles to Last Chance, Minnesota, where she struggles to fit in as her family's Chinese restaurant is targeted with racist attacks.

Inspired by historical events, this novel explores tensions between a 19th-century community of deaf islanders and an ambitious scientist.

Twelve-year-old Simon O'Keeffe tries to forget that he survived a tragedy when his family moves to the National Quiet Zone in Nebraska, where radio signals are banned to prevent interference with astronomers' search of outer space.

In this first book of the Nic Blake and the Remarkables series, twelve-year-old Alexis Nichole Blake is an exile in the Unremarkable world who wants to learn how to use her Gift as a Manifestor, which includes controlling the elements, summoning objects, and creating illusions.

Faced with bullying and anxiety, thirteen-year-old Sasha takes a summer break from busy New York City by visiting his aunt in upstate.

In this first book of The Conjureverse series, eleven-year-old Ella Durand is admitted into the Arcanum Training Institute for Marvelous and Uncanny Endeavors, where she must prove to the magical sky-dwellers that her earthly background and Underworld abilities can be trusted.

This nonfiction narrative traces how Leonardo da Vinci's 16th-century painting of an ordinary Italian wife and mother became the most recognizable face in the world.

Eleven-year-old Kemi Carter is an aspiring scientist who loves the predictability of statistics, especially when she cannot control what's happening to her life in Michigan.

Nicknamed Minni Meow, a twelve-year-old girl in India discovers that there are powerful criminals who are stealing from her Mumbai neighborhood's water supply.

Focusing on how a high school student's Instagram account shattered a small town in California, the author explores how much responsibility our society should have in preventing the spread of hateful ideas.

Noor and Sal — two Pakistani American teenagers living in a small town — are falling in love as they struggle with difficult family issues.

When war breaks out in Syria, eighteen-year-old pharmacy student Salama Kassab finds herself in a hospital tending to the wounded and struggling with visions of a life that might have been.

In Peachtree Corners, Georgia, high school senior Walter Andrew Criddle struggles to uphold the terms of a signed friendship agreement that outlines how he should support Shelbi Camille Augustine through her troubles.

When their parents disappear during a crippling drought, siblings Alyssa and Garrett join a small group of teens in a desperate quest for survival.

Struggling with hearing loss, seventeen-year-old Lilah gets a job at a summer camp for the deaf and blind to improve her use of American Sign Language.

Seventeen-year-old aspiring journalist Safiya Mirza comes across a dead body in a Chicago park. Because it belonged to another Muslim teenager, the haunting sight guides her to uncover the truths behind the murder of Jawad Ali.

In 1989 Romania, with the country controlled by a dictator, seventeen-year-old aspiring writer Cristian Florescu dreams of freedom, especially when he is blackmailed by the secret police into informing on the family of an American diplomat.

When her parents' seemingly happy marriage breaks up, high school senior Yvette (Evie) Antoinette Thomas decides she doesn't believe in love anymore, until she starts taking ballroom dancing lessons in preparation for a Los Angeles competition.

After serving two months in a youth correctional facility for a robbery he didn't commit, high school senior Andre Jackson returns to his Portland, Oregon neighborhood to find that his freedom is further restricted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

As a Detroit DJ spinning hits along with romantic advice, seventeen-year-old Prince Jones challenges Danielle Ford to give him three dates to make her fall in love with him.

In eighteen stories spanning two centuries and territories throughout North America, members of a Cherokee family battle human and supernatural monsters.

In this novel in verse, two teens take a road trip in order to learn about their pasts and find ways to move forward.

Simon Kelleher publishes gossip about his classmates online. When he unexpectedly dies during detention, the four students who were in the room with him become prime suspects in his murder.

Washington, D.C.'s Urban Promise Prep was founded to provide a brighter future for boys who struggle in regular school, but it becomes a crime scene when the principal is murdered.

Fifteen-year-old Tre Brun is determined to help the Red Lake Nation's Warriors win Minnesota's high school basketball tournament.

A seventeen-year-old girl must use all the skills she has learned as the daughter of a con artist in order to survive being held hostage by two men trying to rob the bank of a small town in California.

Sixteen-year-old Yamilet Flores is a queer Mexican-American girl who navigates Catholic school and first love while learning to be authentic to herself.

This first book of the duology introduces seventeen-year-old Teo, son of the goddess of birds, who must compete for the honor of either carrying an elixir to the temples or being sacrificed to refuel the Sun Stones that protect the people of Reino del Sol.

In the small town of Springville, Georgia, the struggle to hide family secrets comes to a bloody end in Madison Washington's senior year of high school.

Born into a legendary family of thieves, seventeen-year-old Rosalyn Quest tries to escape the criminal life by applying to college programs outside of the Bahamas, but when her mom disappears, she realizes that the best chance to save her would be winning a competition of international heists.

When Stevie Bell is admitted to the exclusive Ellingham Academy, she hopes to solve the mystery of the famous crimes that took place at the school years ago. But then another murder takes place, and Stevie realizes that her life and the lives of her friends may depend on her sleuthing skills.

Also a Firekeeper's Daughter, sixteen-year-old Pearl (Perry) Mary Firekeeper-Birch would rather be fishing on Sugar Island, but as a summer intern, she becomes involved in a database of missing and murdered Indigenous women throughout Michigan.

When seventeen-year-old Avery Anderson moves from Washington, D.C. to a small town in Georgia, she encounters conflicts linked to painful family secrets.

At an upstate New York terror-simulation experience based on events from the slasher film The Curse of Camp Mirror Lake, seventeen-year-old Charity is supposed to be the final girl who survives.