Robin Stevenson

Sarah N. Harvey

When a group of teens are sent to a wilderness camp on an island to work through their problems, one of the girls vanishes, an ex-cop dies, and the radio has been disrupted, the kids choose to take matters into their own hands and find the executioner.

Blood on the Beach

Sid has spent most of his life with a loving foster family, so he is shocked when a stranger brings him information on his biological family including a troubled younger brother who may need him.

Three Little Words

When Jack's best friend Leah informs him that her mom is getting her a "boob job" for her sixteenth birthday, Jack begins his research and learns the pros and cons of plastic surgery.

Plastic

When preacher's daughter Ruth gets pregnant after a wild party, her best friend Julia, determined to support her friend, comes up with a plan that may crumble under unexpected complications from her family and Ruth's brother Jonah.

The Lit Report

Arthur oder Wie ich lernte, den T-Bird zu fahren

After Emily's aunt dies, Emily learns that everything she has always believed is a lie, and her world crumbles. Forced to face the fact that her mother is not who she thought she was, Emily tries to find the truth about her past and make sense of her future. Turning to graffiti and vandalism as a way to deal with her anger, she comes to realize that there is more to a family than shared DNA. Also available in Spanish.

Bull's Eye

Julia and Ruth have been unlikely best friends since they first met in Sunday school—Ruth was standing on the Bible-crafts table belting out "Jesus Loves Me." Now that they're a year away from graduation, they're putting the finishing touches on their getaway plans. But their dream of a funky big-city loft and rich, interesting older men is threatened when preacher's daughter Ruth goes to a wild party without studious Julia, and all hell breaks loose. Ruth gets pregnant; Julia gets creative. Determined to support her friend and stay on track for life after high school, Julia comes up with a plan that will require all her intelligence, compassion, ingenuity and patience. Drawing on some great (and some not-so-great) works of literature, Julia proves that you can learn a lot just by opening up a book.

Forced to move to British Columbia, sixteen-year-old Royce Peterson takes on the job of caring for his cranky ninety-five-year-old grandfather, Arthur, in hopes of making enough money to return to his friends in Nova Scotia.

Death Benefits

Eight teens are dropped off on a remote west-coast island for a week-long treatment program called INTRO (Into Nature to Renew Ourselves). The story is told by two of them: Alice, whose police-officer mother believes Alice might have a substance-abuse problem, and Caleb, who assaulted his abusive stepfather. They are joined by six other miscreants and three staff: a psychologist, a social worker and an ex-cop. On the first night, one of the girls disappears from her cabin. There is a panicked search of the island, but she is nowhere to be found. The adults seem oddly ineffectual in dealing with the crisis—and then the ex-cop gets sick and dies. The radio has been sabotaged, and there is no way to call for help. When the social worker also becomes ill, the kids decide to take matters into their own hands and track down the killer.

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