Buddy Boyle lives year-round with his family in unfashionable Seaville, New York, in a cramped little house on the bay. Skye Pennington spends the summers nearby on lavish estate complete with ocean v
"Does heroin give you pimples?" Tucker asked. "All junk does. Junkies love sweets," Dinky said authoritatively. "I never met a junkie who didn't verge on bulbous acne." "How can you eat and talk a
M.E. Kerr’s beloved young adult novel tells the story of two very different teenagers, both struggling to stand up to their parents. Whether it’s going to college instead of taking over the family fun
Though to Brenda Belle Blossom's mother he is just "that boy . . . tying those beer cans to the Christmas tree," sixteen-year-old Adam is really the son of a famous movie star who hobnobs with royalty
Alan, a popular senior high school student, faces painful changes after a new student, Duncan "Doomed" Stein, comes to town and starts an influential underground newspaper.
These fifteen short stories by a writer the New York Times Book Reviewhas called “one of the grand masters of young adult fiction” capture our fears, yearnings, loneliness, self-doubts, and universal
An ill-fated romance between a girl from the wrong side of the tracks and a boy from the richest family in a small upstate New York town has dire consequences for three generations. A gold ring, inscr
M. E. Kerr’s first novel—hailed by the New York Times as a “timely, compelling,” and “brilliantly funny” look at adolescence and friendshipIt was bad enough that they had to move to Brooklyn—Brooklyn
This book examines the gun-related policy responses to three school shooting incidents in the United States. Gun violence prevention activists and others involved in policy making were interviewe
Sixteen-year-old Buddy Boyle makes a shattering discovery about his family in this powerful and poignant novel by award-winning author M. E. KerrBuddy Boyle lives with his parents and younger brother
The concepts of Murray Bowen, one of the founders of family therapy andthe originator of family systems theory, are brought together here inan integrative fashion. Michael Kerr (who worked with Bowen
A cockroach wakes up one morning and discovers that he has turned into a boy. Shoebag likes his life as a cockroach. Like the others in his "tribe", he was named for the place of his birth - in his ca
