Slumming

Everybody has two eyes and a nose and a mouth. What makes some people beautiful and some people not? Nikki never imagined that this offhand thought would change the course of her senior year forever. But when she poses the question to her best friends, Alicia and Sam, Alicia is suddenly inspired, and the three unexpectedly find themselves launching a "human experiment." It seems like the perfect way to make a difference in their last few weeks of high school: they will each pick a student who needs a little improving and take that person to the prom.  Harmless, right? When Nikki, Alicia, and Sam quickly become entrenched in their projects, each has to face difficult realizations about the people they have chosen -- and themselves. Before long their own close friendship feels fragile. Will they make it to graduation without hurting one another -- or anybody else? Acclaimed author Kristen D. Randle has woven an intriguing, insightful, and suspenseful story about three friends who set out to transform others, with unforeseen consequences.

Teen & Young Adult

Randle, Kristen D.

Literature & Fiction

Avon Tempest

Small Avalanches and Other Stories

"The Sky Ball Blue", "Life After High School", and ten other short stories are presented in a compilation for young adults, including three O. Henry Award winners.

OATES,JOYCE CAROL

Children's Books

Thirteen-year-old Sura, serving a six-month sentence in Hamstock Juvenile Detention Center, watches his doomed bunkmate Coly Jo self-destruct in the prison system--and becomes determined to avoid the same fate. Reissue.

The Buffalo Tree

Rapp, Adam

Action & Adventure

He got into nails, of course, because He'd always loved hands -- hands were some of the best things He'd ever done. In God Went to Beauty School Cynthia Rylant imagines a God whose curiosities about the world He created inspire Him to go out and experience human things. But what would God do if He could live in a human world? Would He write a fan letter? Get a dog? Make spaghetti? God Went to Beauty School celebrates the simple things in life while taking a long, hard look at what it means to be human. Rylant's soft, reflective, and often humorous verse glimpses everyday life through wide and wondering eyes and blends the familiar with the profoundly spiritual.

God Went to Beauty School (BCCB BLUE RIBBON NONFICTION BOOK AWARD (AWARDS))

Rylant, Cynthia

Sixteen-year-old Sienna, always a colorless outsider to the intense personal and professional relationship of her famous artist parents, finds herself tentatively growing closer to her father and realizing her own artistic potential after he is diagnosed with a brain tumor.When Sienna's father, a world-famous sculptor, is stricken with a terminal illness, it is Sienna--not his attentive wife--who he turns to for the love and support he needs in his last days

Fade Far Away (An Avon Flare Book)

Lantz, Francess Lin