A Beautiful Place on Yonge Street
Harper Winslow is in love.
Sunny Taylor is tall and thin, with "the smoothest and whitest skin" Harper has ever seen. Her eyes are deep and dark; her voice is a little high and sweet. She enjoys drawing and taking long, brisk walks. Sunny and Harper go for picnics and to the movies, where they make-out (or try to) in the balcony. They joke and talk …
A Fly Named Alfred
"Alfred" (a pseudonym) writes a column for the school newspaper called Fly on the Wall. The column is a big hit with students. Harper thinks this is great. Or at least he does until Alfred pokes fun at a local thug, who then puts a bounty on the head of the columnist.
Things begin to get complicated when a school bully decides that Harper should be …
Emville Confidential
"Baron dreams of being like his favorite hard-boiled detectives: tough, sexy and in control. In reality he's anything but, as his older sister, Kitty, never fails to point out. When a new client presents herself at their backyard detective agency, Baron and his best friend, Myles, are suddenly at odds. Will Wilson, new in town and lonely, choose Ba …
Frog Face and the Three Boys
Charlie, Jeffrey and Sidney are all in the seventh grade and all are spending too much time in the principal's office. Charlie talks nonstop, Jeffrey is too frightened to talk at all and Sidney would much rather let his fists hold up his end of the conversation. One day all three end up before Mr. Duncan, or Frog Face, as they call him behind his b …
The three boys sat in silence for several more minutes, then the short, round figure and bulging eyes of Mr. Duncan, the principal, blew in through the door. To many people in the school system, Mr. Duncan looked like a frog, and today, he looked like a frog on a mission. An exciting mission.
Hypnotized
"Rufus and his sister Alexa hate each other at the best of times. When Rufus's friend Phil manages to hypnotize Alexa, Rufus is ready to enjoy the power. They begin by ordering Alexa to be kind to her parents and Phil. The plan backfires when Alexa sweetly suggests canceling an expensive family vacation in favor of a week at home playing board game …
Lefty Carmichael Has A Fit
Lefty Carmichael Has a Fit
Don Trembath
ALA Popular Paperbacks nominee 2002
YALSA/ALA Best Books for Young Adults nominee
CLA Young Adult Book Award nominee
That was the weirdest part of all of this: they were telling me all of these things that I was doing, and I didn't know about any of it. Rueben had even thought I was dead. In fact, he was sure …
One Missing Finger
Meanwhile, Sidney has fallen for Joey even though Joey's mother wants him to buzz off. Sidney ignores that request, and even wins Joey's mother over, but his own mom suggests that he back off a bit, and then tells him why—"she's too rough for you." Sidney responds in a way he never has before: he uses his head.
Jeffrey wants his father back. But w …
Rooster
Rooster Cobb is in trouble—with his school, with his mother, with his girlfriend. He smokes too much and he hates his stepfather. In fact, he might not graduate from high school. But he just doesn't seem to care. That is until the guidance counselor and the principal come up with a plan to get Rooster through grade twelve, out of their lives fore …
The Bachelors
Charlie has a bag full of videos he lifted from his dadís closet. Sidneyís on the run from two guys in a pick-up truck. Grandpa Anderson wants to eat something other than potatoes. And Jeffrey just wants a little peace and quiet. These are the Bachelors. Three boys and a grumpy grandfather living together for five days while Jeffreyís mother tak …
Jeffrey moved back to the front door and grabbed the biggest suitcase. "Ouch," he said, straining his back. "What do you have in here?"
Charlie smiled. He was no longer upset. "Videos," he said, lifting his eyebrows. "XXX. And magazines that'll make your head spin."
Jeffrey dropped the suitcase. "What?"
The Big Show
Sidneyís mother, Tizzy, wants him to get his act together before he turns thirteen in two weeks. He decides to show her he has not been wasting his life. Charlie wants to show people that thereís more to him than just his big mouth and that he can take something seriously for a change. And Jeffrey is still trying to prove, mainly to his mother, t …
The Popsicle Journal
Harper Winslow has a job--a real job at the town's weekly newspaper. A newspaper job is a dream come true for Harper, who, since his days at The Tuesday Cafe, has worked hard at becoming a writer. But could anything he has done in the past prepare him for what is about to come his way? Nope. When the civic election campaign starts, his job duties, …
The Tuesday Cafe
His parents don't seem to understand what is going on in his life at all. He's not doing well at school. And a juvenile court judge has just ordered him to write a 2000-word essay on how he's going to turn his life around.
Now his mother has enrolled him in a writing class called The Tuesday Cafe, but it's not the kind of class she expected.
It all s …