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Learning Curve
by Sara Raziel Ilana PollackBrilliant Yehudis Tannenbaum aces her courses and is the class genius, pestered for help before every test. But is her brain all that anyone can see in her - even her good friend, Tova? Tormented by the English teacher's spelling mistakes and her own inexplicable difficulty with geometry, Yehudis stumbles through her first year in high school in the attempt to just fit in. It doesn't help that her lack of theatrical talent for the school play lands her in the costume department, and incredibly ends up getting her suspended from school! Learning Curve is a novel of self-awareness and friendship that will entertain as it captivates all the way to its surprising conclusion.
Learning Disabilities: The Ultimate Teen Guide
by Penny Hutchins Paquette Cheryl Gerson TuttleWritten for adolescents confronting learning disabilities, this book provides an overview of the most common disabilities and offers advice on overcoming the difficulties associated with them. Medical aspects of the disabilities are covered and celebrities with similar conditions are profiled. Assistive technology is described, and advice is offered concerning advocacy. Paquette is an educational writer; Tuttle is a special education coordinator. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Learning for Earning: Your Route to Success
by John A. Wanat E. Weston Pfeiffer Richard Van GulikFocuses on helping students understand self first, then making a career match. Identifies the workplace know-how needed for success on the job, as determined by the Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS).
Learning Seventeen (Orca Soundings)
by Brooke CarterNew Hope Academy, or, as seventeen-year-old Jane Learning likes to call it, No Hope, is a Baptist reform school where Jane is currently being held captive. Of course, smart, sarcastic Jane has no interest in reforming, failing to see any benefit to pretending to play well with others. But then Hannah shows up, a gorgeous bad girl with fiery hair and an even stormier disposition. She shows Jane how to live a full and fulfilling life even when the world tells you you're wrong, and how to believe in a future outside the "prison" walls. Jane soon learns, though, that Hannah is quietly battling some demons of her own.
Learning to Breathe: A Novel
by Janice Lynn MatherA 2019 YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults Selection Amelia Bloomer List&’s 2019 Top Ten Recommended Feminist Books for Young Readers A Governor General&’s Literary Award Finalist A Junior Library Guild Selection A Sheila A. Egoff Children&’s Literature Prize Semifinalist A BC Book Prize Finalist &“A love letter to girls—bittersweet and full of hope.&” —Ibi Zoboi, author of National Book Award Finalist American Street &“This is a stellar debut.&” —Brandy Colbert, award-winning author of Little & Lion and Pointe &“A vibrant, essential story of healing, resilience, and finding one&’s family.&” —Stephanie Kuehn, author of William C. Morris Award winning Charm & Strange &“A raw, beautiful, unforgettable must-read.&” —Tiffany D. Jackson, author of Allegedly &“Poetic.&” —Angela Johnson, award-winning author of Heaven &“A powerful, poignant story about refusing to let the past dictate who you are or who you will become.&” —Kirkus Reviews &“This is a well-written, thought-provoking book that tackles difficult topics…a stirring debut.&” —School Library Journal (starred review) Sixteen-year-old Indy struggles to conceal her pregnancy while searching for a place to belong in this stunning debut novel that&’s perfect for fans of Amber Smith and Sara Zarr.Indira Ferguson has done her best to live by her Grammy&’s rules—study hard in school, be respectful, and never let a boy take advantage of her. But it hasn&’t always been easy, especially living in her mother&’s shadow. When Indy is sent to stay in Nassau, trouble follows her and she must hide an unwanted pregnancy from her aunt, who would rather throw Indy out onto the street than see the truth. Completely broke with only a hand-me-down pregnancy book as a resource, Indy desperately looks for a safe space to call home. After stumbling upon a yoga retreat, she wonders if she&’s found that place. But Indy is about to discover that home is much bigger than just four walls and a roof—it&’s about the people she chooses to share it with.
Learning to Fly
by April HenryNineteen-year-old Free Meeker has a shaved head, a nose ring, and a tattoo of Chinese characters around her biceps. She has a career, if you can call it that, as a pet groomer. And she has just learned that she is pregnant, and that her boyfriend is a two-timing bastard. Then a disastrous highway pile-up erroneously adds her name to its list of victims -- and hands Free a chance for a new life. In the chaos of the fiery accident, she acquired the identity papers of the hitchhiker who is mistaken for her -- plus a gym bag filled with $740,000 in drug money that otherwise would have been burned up. Go, Free, go! Free sets out to transform herself into Lydia, the sweet-faced girl whose identity she has assumed. Raised by aging hippies, Free has always secretly longed to be more "normal", to try shaving her underarms instead of her head. Now she has a chance to make herself over. But Free doesn't know that two men are hot on her trail. One man wants the money back. If he doesn't get it soon, he knows he will end up dead. The other man wants his wife back. He doesn't know the real Lydia died in the accident, on the run from his pathological abuse. Now he is determined to "teach her a lesson" -- even if the lesson is fatal. As Free/Lydia settles into a new life full of possibilities, she is completely unaware that it is threatened by resourceful pursuers who are closing in on her.
Learning to Fly (Orca Soundings)
by Paul YeeJason is an outsider. A recent immigrant from China, he lives in a close-minded town with his mother and younger brother. Falling in with the wrong crowd, trying to fit in, Jason takes chances and ends up in trouble with the police. Holding on to his friendship with an Indigenous boy, also an outsider, Jason finds he needs to fight to belong and to find a new home.
Learning to Swear in America
by Katie KennedyA Summer/Fall 2016 Indies Introduce selection <P><P>An asteroid is hurtling toward Earth. A big, bad one. Maybe not kill-all-the-dinosaurs bad, but at least kill-everyone-in-California-and-wipe-out-Japan-with-a-tsunami bad. Yuri, a physicist prodigy from Russia, has been recruited to aid NASA as they calculate a plan to avoid disaster. <P><P>The good news is Yuri knows how to stop the asteroid--his research in antimatter will probably win him a Nobel prize if there's ever another Nobel prize awarded. But the trouble is, even though NASA asked for his help, no one there will listen to him. He's seventeen, and they've been studying physics longer than he's been alive. <P><P>Then he meets (pretty, wild, unpredictable) Dovie, who lives like a normal teenager, oblivious to the impending doom. Being with her, on the adventures she plans when he's not at NASA, Yuri catches a glimpse of what it means to save the world and live a life worth saving. Prepare to laugh, cry, cringe, and have your mind burst open with the questions of the universe.
The Learning Tree
by Gordon ParksPhotographer, writer, and composer, Gordon Parks has written a moving, true-to-life novel of growing up as a black man in this country in the 1900s. Hailed by critics and readers alike, The Learning Tree tells the extraordinary journey of a family as they struggle to understand the world around them and leave their mark a world that is better for their having been in it.
Leave It to Beany (Beany Malone Series, #3)
by Lenora Mattingly WeberBeany Malone liked to manage things. She thought she could even manage Sheila McBride when Sheila appeared at the big friendly house on Barberry Street. The Malones had invited their "much removed" Irish cousin, whom they had never seen, because she was an orphan and lonely in America. Beany pictured her as being wistful and starry-eyed like Peg o' My Heart, and thought she would be as eager to share their interests as they were to include her in their merry circle. Pretty Mary Fred would take Sheila under her wing at college, literary Johnny would discuss Irish poets and plays with her, and Beany, whose warm heart could play odd pranks on her practical mind, resolved that Sheila must always wear gay clothes, sparkle with wit, and never do household chores. It never occurred to them that Sheila might have her own ideas and plans, and the character (Beany called it stubbornness) to carry them out. But Beany plunged with headlong enthusiasm into a newspaper job while still in high school, pleased to have something to take her mind from her troubles with her best beau, and Sheila's stubbornness. One afternoon she brought home from the paper a stray baby, name and age unknown, as anyone else might bring in a stray kitten! The baby played havoc with the household routine, and caused so many surprising complications that sometimes Beany forgot to worry about having lost the charm bracelet that Norbett had given her. Meanwhile troubles multiplied, and Beany found that trying to manage everything and everybody was a big job.
Leaving Atlanta
by Tayari JonesIt's summer in Atlanta and black children are disappearing. By the time the heinous killing spree is over, 29 will be dead. This haunting menace provides the backdrop to the exquisitely evocative stories of three children fighting the everyday battles of adolescence: Tasha, who is coping with her parents' separation and the sweet pain of a first crush on a tender boy; Rodney, who struggles to make friends and wants only to please his abusive father; and Octavia, who faces down the popular crowd at school and must straddle the line between protected and protective daughter. Ultimately, these individual stories reveal the loss of innocence that accompanies the passage from childhood to adulthood.
Leaving China: An Artist Paints His World War II Childhood
by James McMullanA memoir in paintings and words by internationally acclaimed illustrator, author, and teacher James McMullan. A Booklist Top 10 Biography for Youth“It is this dreamlike quality of my memories that I wanted to capture in some way in the paintings that accompany the text--to suggest in the images that the events occurred a long time ago in a simpler yet more exotic world, and that the players in that world, including me, are at a distance.” Artist James McMullan’s work has appeared in the pages of virtually every American magazine, on the posters for more than seventy Lincoln Center theater productions, and in bestselling picture books. Now, in a unique memoir comprising more than fifty short essays and illustrations, the artist explores how his early childhood in China and wartime journeys with his mother influenced his whole life, especially his painting and illustration. James McMullan was born in Tsingtao, North China, in 1934, the grandson of missionaries who settled there. As a little boy, Jim took for granted a privileged life of household servants, rickshaw rides, and picnics on the shore—until World War II erupted and life changed drastically. Jim’s father, a British citizen fluent in several Chinese dialects, joined the Allied forces. For the next several years, Jim and his mother moved from one place to another—Shanghai, San Francisco, Vancouver, Darjeeling—first escaping Japanese occupation then trying to find security, with no clear destination except the unpredictable end of the war. For Jim, those ever-changing years took on the quality of a dream, sometimes a nightmare, a feeling that persists in the stunning full-page, full-color paintings that along with their accompanying text tell the story of Leaving China.
Leaving Home in Time
by Bart JonesA pair of curious children named Gus and Lucy are drawn away from their ordinary lives by an extraordinary cat and enter the remarkable and mysterious Realm, where they embark on a mind bending journey through time and space. They encounter odd beings, escape the clutches of a powerful river, and experience the wonder of a world that no man has ever entered, all to deliver a message upon which the fate of a great many depends. Leaving Home in Time is the first book of a possible 12-book. The second book, The Deep Black Water, is scheduled for completion by the end summer 2012
Leaving Laos
by May YangThrough the ups and downs of life, whom do you count on the most? Twelve-year-old Blong does not have much, but he has his older sister Ka-Ying. Now, their world is suddenly and forever changed. Homes are abandoned. People disappear overnight. Any new friendship is temporary. The year is 1975, and South Vietnam has fallen to North Vietnam. The Vietnam War is finally over. In the neighboring country of Laos, the Royal Lao Army is defeated by the Communist Pathet Lao. That civil war, too, ends. American soldiers who were fighting in the Secret War in Laos are returning home to America. The Hmong, who were recruited by the CIA to fight in the Secret War, are now going to be persecuted and punished for helping the Americans. Blong, his sister, and their grandparents must find a way to escape from Laos. The Communist Pathet Lao is celebrating their victory, but already there are rumors of retribution against the Hmong.
Lecciones de amor (Girl Heart Boy #4)
by Ali CroninCuatro chicas, tres chicos. Casi 18 años. Todos tan reales como tú. GIRL HEART BOY, historias adictivas que no puedes parar de leer Ashley, la transgresora y feminista; Rich, el amigo perfecto, siempre adorable; Donna, la fiestera y despreocupada; Jack, el deportista responsable; Cass, la dulce y eterna emparejada; Ollie, el divertido ligón del grupo; Sarah, romántica e inocente. El último año de instituto siempre es decisivo: amor, secretos, sexo, diversión y tantos sueños por cumplir... Esta es la historia que cambió la vida de Donna, pero también la de todos los demás componentes del grupo. Dylan está enamorado de Ashley, Ollie lo está de Sarah y Jack de Hannah. Pero ¿y Donna? Donna cree que nadie se enamorará de ella nunca pero, cuando su tutor universitario lo hace, ella solo puede pensar en huir. Donna es divertida y brillante. Y Will es simplemente perfecto para ella. ¿Podrá Donna superar sus miedos y dejar que el amor surja entre ellos? ¡La irresistible serie romántica que combina romanticismo y realismo con la sensualidad de Cincuenta Sombras Grey de E. L. James para adolescentes!
Led Astray: A Crime Thriller
by Karlianna VoncilWhat begins as an innocent friendship between orphaned 13-year-old and a group of street kids ends in murder in this YA crime thriller series debut.After sixteen-year-old Emily Burns turns up murdered, Sweet Valley detectives Martinez and van Daan must pin their hopes on thirteen-year-old Daisy Young, the only living soul who could have possibly witnessed the horrifying crime. But as the story of Daisy’s life spills out, the interview transforms into something darker and more tragic than either detective is equipped to handle.Abandoned by her mother in a poor Sweet Valley neighborhood, Daisy falls in with a troupe of street-smart teens who offer her both the family and freedom she desperately craves. Their leader is Avia, a mysterious older teen who teaches Daisy both to survive and about the importance of family loyalty. But when tragedy strikes and sends Avia down the deadly path of revenge, Daisy must prove her loyalty in one truly unforgettable act.Perfect for fans of The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, Swamplandia! by Karen Russell, Monster by Walter Dean Myers, and Picture Me Gone by Meg Rosoff.A 2019 Book Excellence Awards Finalist1st Place Winner of the 2020 CIPA EVVY AwardsPraise for Led Astray“A YA coming of age story with a sting in the tale. . . . I found myself inexorably drawn into a dark and twisted tale to the extent that I didn’t want to put the book down. . . . The characters are really well developed, real people you can empathize with and relate to. The pace is good and there is plenty of action.” —Anne-Marie Reynolds, Readers’ Favorite
The Ledge (Orca Soundings)
by Lesley ChoyceNick was used to being good at everything. Hockey, football, track, they all came easy to him. Surfing was his latest passion. That is, until the accident. Now partially paralyzed, Nick is angry, depressed and getting far too fond of his prescription meds. But his frequent visits to his physiotherapist, a Syrian refugee, and a budding friendship with a partial amputee who has also experienced firsthand the horrors of war help him start to piece his life back together. A story about overcoming the odds and changing your life for the better.
The Left Behind Bride: Canadian Historical Brides (Canadian Historical Brides #10)
by ReidMaggie Conrad’s husband of ten days is sent overseas in WW1 and never comes home. A second suitor is lost at sea in Nova Scotia’s August Gale. Turning thirty, and on her own, she resolves to make a life for her herself and her younger brother, Ivan.
The Left-Handed Booksellers of London
by Garth NixA girl’s quest to find her father leads her to an extended family of magical fighting booksellers who police the mythical Old World of England when it intrudes on the modern world. From the bestselling master of teen fantasy, Garth Nix.In a slightly alternate London in 1983, Susan Arkshaw is looking for her father, a man she has never met. Crime boss Frank Thringley might be able to help her, but Susan doesn’t get time to ask Frank any questions before he is turned to dust by the prick of a silver hatpin in the hands of the outrageously attractive Merlin.Merlin is a young left-handed bookseller (one of the fighting ones), who with the right-handed booksellers (the intellectual ones), are an extended family of magical beings who police the mythic and legendary Old World when it intrudes on the modern world, in addition to running several bookshops.Susan’s search for her father begins with her mother’s possibly misremembered or misspelt surnames, a reading room ticket, and a silver cigarette case engraved with something that might be a coat of arms.Merlin has a quest of his own, to find the Old World entity who used ordinary criminals to kill his mother. As he and his sister, the right-handed bookseller Vivien, tread in the path of a botched or covered-up police investigation from years past, they find this quest strangely overlaps with Susan’s. Who or what was her father? Susan, Merlin, and Vivien must find out, as the Old World erupts dangerously into the New.
The Left-handed Fate
by Kate Milford Eliza WheelerReturn to Nagspeake for a new fantasy adventure from the bestselling author of National Book Award nominee Greenglass House.<P><P> Lucy Bluecrowne and Maxwell Ault are on a mission: find the three pieces of a strange and arcane engine they believe can stop the endless war raging between their home country of England and Napoleon Bonaparte’s France. During the search, however, their ship, the famous privateer the Left-Handed Fate, is taken by the Americans, who have just declared war on England, too. The Fate (and with it, Lucy and Max) is put under the command of new midshipman Oliver Dexter... who’s only just turned twelve.<P> But Lucy and Max aren’t the only ones trying to assemble the engine; the French are after it, as well as the crew of a mysterious vessel that seems able to appear out of thin air. When Oliver discovers what his prisoners are really up to―and how dangerous the device could be if it falls into the wrong hands―he is faced with a choice: Help Lucy and Max even if it makes him a traitor to his own country? Or follow orders and risk endangering countless lives, including those of the enemies who have somehow become his friends?
Leftovers
by Heather WaldorfFifteen-year-old Sarah Greene's father—chef by day, camera buff by night—choked to death on a piece of steak. It was the best day of Sarah's life. But a year later, Sarah still struggles with the legacy of her father's abuse. While other girls her age are determined to find boyfriends and part-time jobs and dresses for the prom, Sarah is on a search-and-destroy mission: to find the shoe box containing her father's collection of kiddy porn. After a brief skirmish with the law, Sarah is sentenced to do community service hours at Camp Dog Gone Fun, a summer program for shelter dogs. With the love of a big goofy dog named Judy, the friendship of Sullivan, a guy with problems of his own, and the support of a few good adults, Sarah begins to understand her past and believe in a brighter future.
Leg mich hin
by Tamara Hart HeinerDas Leben ist mehr als nur das Atmen. Kylee Mansfield weiß, was es heißt, allein zu sein. Ihr Vater verließ sie, als sie sieben Jahre alt war, und ihre Mutter heiratete erneut einen Alkoholiker, der sie missbrauchte. Kylee findet Wege, der Realität zu entfliehen, meist indem sie einen Schmerz durch einen anderen ersetzt. Die Dinge nehmen eine tödliche Wendung, als ein gezackter Schnitt an ihrem Arm auftaucht, von dem sie nicht weiß, woher er stammt. Sie bittet ihren Nachbarn Price Hudson, ihr zu helfen, die Wahrheit herauszufinden. Aber Price zeigt ihr viel mehr als nur ihre Vergangenheit - er zeigt ihr, was es heißt, am Leben zu sein. Ein herzzerreißender, wunderschöner paranormaler Liebesroman.
The Legacies
by Jessica Goodman"Our new favorite thriller." – COSMOPOLITAN A glitzy YA thriller set in New York City elite social circles, filled with backstabbing and blackmail, twisty secrets, and a dead body, from New York Times bestselling author Jessica Goodman.Perfect for fans of Euphoria, Holly Jackson, and Jessica Knoll.An invitation for membership to the exclusive Legacy Club in New York City is more than an honor. It gives lifetime access to power and wealth beyond any prep school doors, as Legacy Club members always look out for their own. That is, after you make it through a rigorous week of events and the extravagant gala, the Legacy Ball.It&’s not surprising when Excelsior Prep seniors Bernie Kaplan, Isobel Rothcroft, and Skyler Hawkins are nominated as Legacies; their family pedigrees have assured their membership since birth—even if they're all keeping secrets that could destroy their reputations. But scholarship kid from Queens Tori Tasso is the surprise nominee no one saw coming. She&’s never fit in this world of designer bags, penthouse apartments, and million-dollar donations. So what did she do to secure her place?The evening of the Legacy Ball arrives, and everyone expects a night of luxury and excess, haute couture, and plenty of hushed gossip.No one expects their secrets to come out.Or for someone to die trying to keep them hidden.
Legacy
by Jessica BlankA powerful coming-of-age novel about a seventeen-year-old girl who joins a radical environmental movement in the Pacific Northwest.Ever since her older brother Andy died, Alison's life has been just as dark as her home in Tacoma, Washington. Her mom is in perpetual mourning, her father ran out on them, and after hanging out with Andy's hard-partying friends for a year, Alison's reputation is trashed. She planned on taking the path of least resistance during her senior year--hanging out with her punk rocker boyfriend and trying not to flunk out of school--until a massive fight with her mother pushes her over the edge, and she runs away. At first, joining a group of radical environmentalists who are occupying a Washington State forest is just about having a place to crash. But the ancient woods prove to be as vibrant and welcoming as they are vulnerable, and for the first time, Alison realizes that she might be more powerful than she thought. As tensions in the forest mount and confrontations with authorities get physical, Alison has to decide whether she's willing to put her own life on the line to fight for what she believes in. In this stunning literary work, Jessica Blank uses the anti-establishment and radical mood of the 1990s to show a girl grappling to find the strength and courage to do what's right . . . for the world . . . and for herself.
Legacy: A Private Novel
by Kate BrianThe price of power... After Cheyenne Martin's death, everyone at Easton Academy is struggling to recover from yet another tragedy--especially the girls of Billings Hall. With Cheyenne gone, they need to elect a new leader. And who better than Reed Brennan, the ultimate Billings Girls? As the new Billings president, Reed suddenly has access to power she never imagined. Gossip is reported to her immediately, she has first dibs on everything from dining tables to dorm rooms, and Billings's most powerful alumnae are at her beck and call. So when Easton's students discover they're the only prep school on the East Coast not invited to this year's all-inclusive Legacy party, everyone turns to Reed to get them back on the list. Reed is the most powerful girl at Easton. She revels in her newfound status, but knows better than anyone that the Bilings leaders have a tainted legacy: Ariana was institutionalized, Noelle was expelled, and Cheyenne just died. History has a way of repeating itself at Easton, and now that Reed has everything she's ever wanted, she has everything to lose.