The Skin I’m In

• Thirteen-year-old Maleeka, uncomfortable because her skin is extremely dark, meets a new teacher with a birthmark on her face and makes some discoveries about how to love who she is and what she looks like.

All American Boys

• When sixteen-year-old Rashad is mistakenly accused of stealing, classmate Quinn witnesses his brutal beating at the hands of a police officer who happens to be the older brother of his best friend.

Bronx Masquerade

• Wesley writes a poem for his English class that gives his teacher the idea to create Open Mike Fridays so all students can share their poetry.

Jumped

• Three girls: the "bully," the "victim," and the bystander. Three lives, filled with their own stories, stresses, needs, and wants, collide one day in an overcrowded urban high school with the kind of result that makes the news nearly every day.

Playground• A hard-hitting and

inspirational novel about the redemption of a bully from international icon 50 Cent.

Thirteen-year-old Butterball takes readers on a journey through the moments that made him into the playground bully he is today.

Homeboyz

• Seventeen-year-old Teddy Anderson, who is known on the streets as T-Bear, decides to seek revenge on the person responsible for his little sister's death, which was caused by a stray bullet from a semiautomatic handgun.

If I Grow Up

• In the Frederick Douglass Project where DeShawn lives, daily life is ruled by drugs and gang violence. Many teenagers drop out of school and join gangs, and every kid knows someone who died. Gunshots ring out on a regular basis.

Riker’s High

• Martin Stokes is a 17-year-old black high school student. Arrested on his own front stoop for “steering” an undercover cop to a drug dealer, he’s spent five months in jail at Rikers Island when this story begins.

Boy 21• Basketball has always been

an escape for Finley. He lives in gray, broken Bellmont, a town ruled by the Irish Mob, drugs, violence, and racially charged rivalries. At home, he takes care of his disabled grandfather, and at school he’s called “White Rabbit”, the only white kid on the varsity basketball team.

Jason & Kyra• Jason is a basketball star

and one of the most popular guys in school. Brainy Kyra isn't, but she doesn't much care what other people think. Under normal circumstances, Jason and Kyra would live in their separate worlds until graduation. But fate intervenes…

Jumped In• In the two years since his

mother left him with his grandparents in Des Moines, Washington, Sam has avoided making friends and perfected the art of being a slacker, but being paired with a frightening new student for a slam poetry unit transforms his life.

The First Part Last

• Bobby's a classic urban teenager. He's restless. He's impulsive. But the thing that makes him different is this: He's going to be a father. His girlfriend, Nia, is pregnant, and their lives are about to change forever.

• Sequel to “Heaven”/Bobby’s view

Snitch (#2 in series)

• Julia DiVino, a college-bound student at South Bay High School, has vowed never to join a gang, but she faces some difficult decisions when her dream guy, Eric Valiente, becomes a gang member.

• Stand-alone storyline

Takedown (3rd in series)• After years in "juvie,"

Darren cooperates with the police to infiltrate a drug ring to settle a vendetta, but sweet, innocent Jessica is now in his life so when a deadly turf war erupts, Darren must protect not only his own life, but Jessica's as well.

• Stand-alone storyline

Give a Boy a Gun• For as long as they can

remember, Brendan and Gary have been mercilessly teased and harassed by the jocks who rule Middletown High.

• Events leading up to a night of terror at a high school dance are told from the point of view of various people involved.

Camo Girl• Ella has always been friends

with a boy known as Z, despite his reputation as the weird kid, but when a new boy, Bailey, moves to town and befriends Ella because they are the only two African American students in the class, she must choose between the popularity Bailey will bring to her life and her lifelong friendship with Z.

Battle of Jericho Trilogy• A high school junior and his cousin

suffer the ramifications of joining what seems to be a "reputable" school club. (#1)

• After losing her boyfriend, Josh, to a pledge stunt gone wrong, a pregnant November Nelson must deal with the pressures the new baby will bring. Meanwhile, Jericho, Josh's cousin, struggles to cope with the loss of his best friend and turns to a variety of activities to distract himself from the pain. (#2)

• As Kofi, Arielle, Dana, November, and Jericho face personal challenges during their last year of high school, a misunderstood student brings a gun to class and demands to be taken seriously. (#3)

Bang!

• A teenage boy must face the harsh realities of inner city life, a disintegrating family, and destructive temptations as he struggles to find his identity as a young man.

• Little brother was shot while playing on front porch

When I Was the Greatest• Ali lives in Bed-Stuy, a

Brooklyn neighborhood known for guns and drugs, but he and his sister, Jazz, and their neighbors, Needles and Noodles, stay out of trouble until they go to the wrong party, where one gets badly hurt and another leaves with a target on his back.