Turning Point

Cheesus Was Here

Wishing Upon the Same Stars

100 Things Every Black Girl Should Know & Do: Important Life Advice for Teenage Girls Aged 8-15

Follow After Me

Necessary Roughness

Special Olympics

Good-Bye Doesn't Mean Forever

Paula Yoo scores big in her hilarious debut novel about an overachiever who longs to fit in and strives to stand out. The pressure is on!How to make your Korean parents happy: 1. Get a perfect score on the SATs.2. Get into HarvardYalePrinceton.3. Don't talk to boys.*Patti's parents expect nothing less than the best from their Korean-American daughter. Everything she does affects her chances of getting into an Ivy League school. So winning assistant concertmaster in her All-State violin competition and earning less than 2300 on her SATs is simply not good enough. But Patti's discovering that there's more to life than the Ivy League. To start with, there's Cute Trumpet Guy. He's funny, he's talented, and he looks exactly like the lead singer of Patti's favorite band. Then, of course, there's her love of the violin. Not to mention cool rock concerts. And anyway, what if Patti doesn't want to go to HarvardYalePrinceton after all?*Boys will distract you from your studies. 

Discover Your Child's Next Read

Turning Point

Chase, Paula Chase, 2020

Cheesus Was Here

J. C. Davis, 2017

Wishing Upon the Same Stars

Jacquetta Nammar Feldman, 2022

100 Things Every Black Girl Should Know & Do: Important Life Advice for Teenage Girls Aged 8-15

Angelica Brown, 2023

Follow After Me

Allison Marlow Paterson, 2019

Necessary Roughness

Marie G. Lee, 1996

Special Olympics

Fern G. Brown, 1992

Good-Bye Doesn't Mean Forever

Lurlene N. Mcdaniel, 1989