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Lightning Rider
January Fournier, a sixteen-year-old Métis girl, learns her brother is in intensive care after a motorcycle crash. The police tell her the crashed bike was stolen, and her brother is now the prime suspect in a serious crime.
$9.95, PaperbackInterest ages: 14-18Reading level: Grade 4
Scarred
Becky was once a promising young skating star, but these days she feels numb, disconnected, and very lonely. The only way she knows to relieve pressure is to cut herself.
$9.95, PaperbackInterest ages: 14-18Reading level: Grade 4
Truth and Lies
When the police investigation into a vicious attack on Erin's friend comes up empty, Erin decides to take matters into her own hands.$9.95, PaperbackInterest ages: 14-18Reading level: Grade 4
Hook Up
A realistic, unflinching look at teen pregnancy - from the guy's perspective$9.95, PaperbackInterest ages: 14-18Reading level: Grade 3
Off Limits
A boy who wants more out of a relationship than just sex - and finds it in the wrong place$9.95, PaperbackInterest ages: 14-18Reading level: Grade 4
New Blood
After a gang of thugs beat him up, Paul's parents decide they've had enough of Glasgow's tough streets and move the family to Winnipeg.
$9.95, PaperbackInterest ages: 14-18Reading level: Grade 3
Skank
From one one of Vancouver's most promising young writers, a novel about mean girls, damaging lies, and difficult choices.$9.95, PaperbackInterest ages: 14-18Reading level: Grade 4
Schizo
A teenage boy struggles to keep his family together, while his mother's schizophrenia tears them apart.$9.95, PaperbackInterest ages: 14-18Reading level: Grade 3
Pretty Bones
There are no easy answers for girls growing up in a world where being pretty means being thin.$9.95, PaperbackInterest ages: 14-18Reading level: Grade 4
Girl Fight
Zadie tries to fight her way through life, only to find out that, for girls like her, life often fights back.
Chosen as one of Resource Links' Year's Best for 2011$9.95, PaperbackInterest ages: 14-18Reading level: Grade 4
Gone Bad
A story about youth and violence from one of Canada's most popular YA authors.
Chosen as one of Resource Links' Year's Best for 2011$9.95, PaperbackInterest ages: 14-18Reading level: Grade 3
Adrenaline High
D'Arcy is a newshound who thinks she has found the big scoop when her classmate Zania's mother goes missing. But solving this mystery has the girls in way over their heads.
$9.95, PaperbackInterest ages: 14-18Reading level: Grade 5
Strange Beauty
There are some things a teen can take for granted, or so Penny thinks. Beautiful girls get all the breaks. An eccentric old woman is going to be the target of every kid in the 'hood. But what if things are not all they seem?
$9.95, PaperbackInterest ages: 14-18Reading level: Grade 3
Tattoo Heaven
To an outsider, it might seem like an uneventful summer, but to Jackie it's a whole new world. Her father has a new girlfriend -- a young tattoo-artist named Nicole. Her mother seems more interested in Theresa, the sick girl living across the street, than she is in her own daughter.$9.95, PaperbackInterest ages: 14-18Reading level: Grade 4
Stalked
Stalked explores an issue seldom talked about and not commonly reported: Sexual harassment of teen girls in the workplace.$9.95, PaperbackInterest ages: 14-18Reading level: Grade 5
Final Takedown
A gritty second novel by New Brunswick native Brent R. Sherrard that explores the issues of addiction and poverty for Elias, a part-Maliseet teenager on the brink.$9.95, PaperbackInterest ages: 14-18Reading level: Grade 4
Thief Girl
In her opinion, the only good thing about multiculturalism is the food.$9.95, PaperbackInterest ages: 14-18Reading level: Grade 3Lexile Reading Level: 570L
