When Rafe Kane enters middle school, he teams up with his best friend, "Leo the Silent," to create a game to make school more fun by trying to break every rule in the school's code of conduct.

After Sherman sees something terrible happen, he becomes anxious and then angry, but when a counselor helps him talk about these emotions he feels better.

Written in free verse, explores how three teenagers try to cope with the consequences of their mother's addiction to crystal meth and its effects on their lives.

"Six students are trapped in their school after a bomb goes off, and must fight to survive while discovering who among them is the bomber"-- Six students are trapped in their school after a bomb. They couldn't be more different, but now they have something in common: survival. When they hear that the bomber is trapped inside the school, the question is: is it one of them?

Nearly 5 percent of teens secretly cut themselves. On the outside, a cutter may look like the person who sits next to you in history class. But inside he or she is full of emotional turmoil. This book in the What's the Issue? series explores the reasons teens turn to cutting. It includes information from teens and offers resources for those who want to help themselves or someone they know.

Certain that he is doing the right thing by donating his dog, Wolfie, to the Army's scout program in Vietnam, thirteen-year-old Mark begins to have second thoughts when the Army refuses to say when and if Wolfie will ever return.