A new day of school, and a new backpack! Something hip and cool. A place for books, a place to clip a lunchbox, a perfect turquoise hue. The backpack that had it all...but is that what really counts? With Barry's rhyming structure and colorful art from illustrator Klaudia Bezak, The Backpack offers a lesson on caring, friendship, and understanding that it's what's inside that makes us all important.

-The Wishing Shelf Independent Book Award Finalist. -Shelf Unbound Notable Top 100 Book. -Literary Classics Seal of Approval, August 20, 2015. -Pinnacle Book Achievement Award, Summer 2015: Best Novella. It takes 7 seconds to crash. It takes 3 seconds to fall in love. It takes an infinite moment to let go. David Medwin's life is fading away, and all he can think about is what it means to be alive. An intense story about life, death and, most...

Ria es rica, delgada, linda, popular. Uno pensaría que ella llevó una vida de encanto hasta hace poco hubieramos tenido razón. Pero su situación ha tomado un cambio desafortunado súbitamente. El matrimonio aparentemente perfecto de sus padres se ha roto, y antes de que ella tenga la oportunidad de absorber el golpe, su amado padre desaparece en un accidente aéreo. Lo que es peor, los rumores comienzan a aflorar acerca de que él pudo haber perpetrado...

On a cold Colorado night, Oona Antunes leaves Crystal High's Winter Formal, walks deep into the woods, and lies down in the snow to die. She awakens in the hospital, suffering the effects of frostbite and hypothermia. But her physical injuries aren't nearly as painful as the wound she can't name, the one she feels cutting deep into the core of who she is. While recovering from her suicide attempt, Oona discovers that the roots of her problems go beyond...

No one knows why she hurt herself, least of all Skey. After five long months in treatment for self-destructive behavior, Skey continues to dream of dark tunnels with mysterious designs carved into their stone walls, a place where she is safe and alone. Then she encounters another dreamer, a boy her own age, dreaming the same dream, wandering the same tunnels. A boy with secrets much like her own. While trying desperately to remember what happened...

Things could be going better for Oz. He’s just moved miles from all his friends. A prank at his new school puts him in the crosshairs of “Psycho” Isobel Skinner, a bully who also happens to be his mum’s new best friend. And he’s driven off the only other kid who will have anything to do with him: a Tolkien-obsessed boy in desperate need of a decent playlist. With his life careening out of control, Oz sets about making things right. But when...

I can’t feel sadness, anger, or fear. I can’t feel anything. I’ve grown talented at pretending. Elizabeth Caldwell doesn’t feel emotions... she sees them in human form. Longing hovers around the shy, adoring boy at school. Courage materializes beside her dying friend. Fury and Resentment visit her abusive home. They’ve all given up on Elizabeth because she doesn’t succumb to their touch. All, that is, except beautiful Fear, who sometimes...

Cuando Chris se encuentra una billetera en la calle, trata de devolverla a su dueño. Con problemas en casa y en la escuela, él está luchando por hacer lo correcto. Sin embargo, según las circunstancias comienzan lentamente desentrañar y toda su vida parece encaminarse por el desagüe, Chris se da cuenta de que la persona que posee la cartera se parece mucho y tiene una vida por la cuál él haría casi cualquier cosa para. ¿Qué pasa si él...

Dime tiene quince años y siempre enfadada. Sus padres no la entienden, y su hermano estaba paralizado por un accidente. Cuando las peleas y acusaciones se vuelven demasiado, Dime va a vivir con su hermano. Pero sus problemas la siguen. Hasta que ella se de cuenta que tiene que empezar a tomar alguna responsabilidad, nada cambiará. Dime is fifteen and always angry. Her parents don't understand her, and her brother was paralyzed in an accident. When...

The 40th anniversary edition of a groundbreaking teen classic. When the grandmother who raised him dies, Davy Ross, a lonely thirteen-year-old boy, must move to Manhattan to live with his estranged mother. Between alcohol-infused lectures about her self-sacrifice and awkward visits with his distant father, Davy’s only comfort is his beloved dachshund Fred. Things start to look up when he and a boy from school become friends. But when their relationship...