The O.c.

The Haunted Mask

The Mystery of the Ivory Charm

I Color Myself Different

If a Tree Falls at Lunch Period

While I Was Away

Born Ready: The True Story of a Boy Named Penelope

Attack of the Growling Eyeballs: Who Shrunk Daniel Funk?

A timeless exploration of high-stakes romance, self-discovery, and the lengths we go to love and be loved.

Sixteen-year-old Zarin Wadia is many things: a bright and vivacious student, an orphan, a risk taker. She’s also the kind of girl that parents warn their kids to stay away from: a troublemaker whose many romances are the subject of endless gossip at school.  You don't want to get involved with a girl like that, they say. So how is it that eighteen-year-old Porus Dumasia has only ever had eyes for her? And how did Zarin and Porus end up dead in a car together, crashed on the side of a highway in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia? When the religious police arrive on the scene, everything everyone thought they knew about Zarin is questioned. And as her story is pieced together, told through multiple perspectives, it becomes clear that she was far more than just a girl like that.

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The O.c.

Monica Rizzo, 2004

The Haunted Mask

R.L. Stine, 1993

The Mystery of the Ivory Charm

Carolyn Keene, 1936

I Color Myself Different

Colin Kaepernick, Eric Wilkerson, 2022

If a Tree Falls at Lunch Period

Gennifer Choldenko, 2007

While I Was Away

Waka T. Brown, 2021

Born Ready: The True Story of a Boy Named Penelope

Charnelle Pinkney Barlow, Jodie Patterson, 2021

Attack of the Growling Eyeballs: Who Shrunk Daniel Funk?

Lin Oliver, 2008