The Life and Times of Benny Alvarez

The Year of the Fortune Cookie: Anna Wang

Middle School Is Worse Than Meatloaf

Lily's Promise

Indie Kidd: Are We Having Fun Yet (Hmmm?)

Ways to Grow Love: Ryan Hart

Second Chance Summer

Benny Beats His Shyness: Kids and Parents Overcoming Social Anxiety

It’s the end of junior year, and summer is about to begin. The Summer of Passion, to be exact, when Jory Michaels plans to explore all the possibilities of the future—and, with any luck, score a boyfriend in the process. But Jory has a problem. A big problem. A curvy, honking, bumpy, problem in the form of her Super Schnozz, the one thing standing between Jory and happiness. And now, with the Summer of Passion stretched before her like an open road, she's determined for Super Schnozz to disappear. Jory takes a job delivering wedding cakes to save up for a nose job at the end of the summer; she even keeps a book filled with magazine cutouts of perfect noses to show the doctor. But nothing is ever easy for accident-prone Jory—and before she knows it, her Summer of Passion falls apart faster than the delivery van she crashes. In this hilarious and heartbreaking novel, Sydney Salter delivers a story about broadening your horizons, accepting yourself, and finding love right under your nose.

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Lily's Promise

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Indie Kidd: Are We Having Fun Yet (Hmmm?)

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