Homelessness, Runaways & Poverty

This special audio issue of a best-selling and award-winning Australian classic from popular author Steven Herrick is a life-affirming look at humanity, generosity and love....

What was once the Western United States is now home to the Republic, a nation perpetually at war with its neighbors. Born into an elite family in one of the Republic's wealthiest districts, 15-year-old June is a prodigy being groomed for success in the Republic's highest military circles....

When Margo Roth Spiegelman beckons Quentin Jacobsen in the middle of the night - dressed like a ninja and plotting an ingenious campaign of revenge - he follows her. After a lifetime of loving Margo from afar, things are finally looking up for Q - until day breaks and she has vanished....

Holly Black follows her breakout debut, Tithe, with a rich, harrowing, and thoroughly enjoyable parable of betrayal, abuse, friendship, and love....

One bright spring morning in the woods of France, a soldier, blinded by the war, is found by a little girl named Coco, and her older sister Marcelle....

Shifted Rule is the stunning conclusion to Elena Lawson’s number one best-selling wolf shifter series, The Wolves of Forest Grove....

Allison is in danger at home. Her stepmother has run away and her father is getting worse. So she runs away too and with no where to live finds herself hiding out, miles from home, in an elderly woman’s shed....

Caitlin can't afford to leave this dreamland, this half-sleeping state where everything and everyone can be kept at arm's length....

Fourteen-year-old Terry has parents who never paid him much attention. So when they both disappear after one of their all-too-frequent arguments, Terry isn’t exactly eager for them to come home....

Charlie Grant’s older sister is getting married this weekend at their family home, and Charlie can’t wait - for the first time in years, all four of her older siblings will be under one roof....

A raw, gripping, authentic, and boldly original novel about a fifteen-year-old Texas girl set to stand trial for murder—and the one person who might be able to help her clear her name.

On a night of wild storms, two troubled figures escape from captivity. One is a 15-year-old boy, Samuel Miles, a.k.a. "Smiler", wrongly convicted of theft and sent to a young offenders institution. The other is a cheetah, Yarra, a restless resident of Longleat Wildlife Park....

This is the sequel to Freckles - the moving story of a young girl whose kindness and wholesome philosophy brightens the lives of everyone she meets....

Humanity is one secret society away from extinction. The children of Atlantis use magic to keep us safe. If they make it through the Academy....

When 15-year-old Romeo's mother leaves and doesn't return, he finds himself homeless and trying to survive on the streets. Mute and terrified, his silence makes him vulnerable, and one night, he is beaten by a gang of kids, only to be rescued by a boy who pledges to take care of him....

A high-stakes story of star-crossed lovers from Simone Elkeles, the New York Times best-selling author of the Perfect Chemistry series. To escape his abusive stepdad, bad boy Ryan Hess runs from his tiny Texas border town to Mexico....

A shimmering, ultimately joyful audiobook, a story of journeying towards courage and freedom, of finding the will to live a life beyond expectation....

Pen's life is about secrets: the secret of the city's spirits, deities and monsters, living just beyond the notice of modern Londoners; the secret of Pen's intricate scars that disfigure her so cruelly....

The stakes have never been higher. The games are do or die. Cory’s life has become one big gamble, and he’s on a path he never intended to take. Cory must decide whether he's willing to risk his life to save his friends and the one he loves, or save himself.

Working as a Wench - i.e. waitress - at a medieval-themed restaurant in the Chicago suburbs, Kit dreams of being a Knight like her brother. She has the moves, is capable on a horse, and desperately needs the raise that comes with knighthood so she can help her mom pay the mortgage....

Parisian teenager Lou has an IQ of 160, OCD tendencies, and a mother who has suffered from depression for years. But Lou is about to change her life....

Seventeen-year-old Amelia Gannon (just "Gannon" to her friends) is invisible to almost everyone in her life....

When it happened Miguel was sent to Juvi. The judge only gave him a year in a group home. The judge had no idea that he'd actually done Miguel a favor....

An astonishing new voice in teen literature, writing what is sure to be one of the most talked-about debuts of the year....

For fans of Lovecraft Country and Candyman comes a witchy story full of Black girl magic as one girl's dark ability to summon the dead offers her a chance at a new life, while revealing to her an even darker future....