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A young boy living in the Ozarks achieves his heart's desire when he becomes the owner of two redbone hounds and teaches them to be champion hunters.

Dual perspectives reveal the aftermath of seventeen-year-old Michael MacKenzie's birthday celebration during which he discharges an antique Winchester rifle and unknowingly kills the father of high school classmate Jenna Ward.

Seventeen-year-old Arden has been raised by her older brother, Scott, since their parents died when she was just six years old, so when Scott is presumed drowned in a snowmobile accident, Arden is convinced he has really run away.

During the summer her grandfather is dying of leukemia and death seems all around, fifteen-year-old Vicky finds comfort with the pod of dolphins with which she has been doing research.

Louie, a high school senior in a small Idaho town, learns about sportsmanship, love, and death as he matures into manhood.

Described as a "very great achievement," this first novel by Saroyan is a simple narrative about what life is like back home during wartime.

Unhappy San Diego teenager Samantha Pallas, a passionate runner who holds back during races, lives with her philandering father and his pregnant girlfriend, and searches for love in casual sex on the beach, seeks validation in a relationship with Farouk, a sophisticated new boy from Iran, while her school mourns the death of Owen, the popular star of the track team.

Zo?, a teenage girl dealing with her mother's impending death, receives an unexpected visit from a beautiful young man named Simon--who, she eventually learns, is a three-hundred-year-old vampire seeking to avenge his mother's death.

Three teenagers' lives are changed forever when they thoughtlessly steal a stop sign from a dangerous intersection and a young mother is killed in an automobile accident there.

Thirteen-year-old Meg is envious of her sister's beauty and popularity.

Resettled in the "Bomb City" with her mother and brother, Davey Wexler recovers from the shock of her father's death during a holdup of his 7-Eleven store in Atlantic City.

Thirteen-year-old Isabel, a girl living on the island of Guam, and her family try to cope with the suicide of Isabel's mother.

Through her love of music and membership in her brother's band, sixteen-year-old Lisa learns to deal with her feelings of abandonment following her mother's death.

Fifteen-year-old Grant confronts the difficult decision of whether or not to cooperate with his grandfather's wish that he not be placed on life-support systems.

Bridget Edelstein mourns the loss of her high school boyfriend who died in a car crash, and rebounds with a new love.