Mark is a city kid who has come to a small town to live with his grandmother after his mom goes into rehab. He has to take a school bus home for the first time. The long, noisy ride home is nothing like riding city transit. There's some kind of secret code of knowing where you're allowed to sit, the kids scream non-stop, and there's pudding and cheese flying through the air. Someone even tries to set Mark's seat on fire. Mark quickly decides that all these kids are nuts and does his best to avoid interacting with any of them. But when the bus is involved in a serious accident, Mark has to work with a couple of other students to get everybody to safety. He soon learns that he has more in common with these rural kids than he would ever have imagined. In turns funny and heartbreaking, The Ride Home is about learning that not everything is as it seems and that everyone has a story.
Thirteen-year-old Robbie leads a double life. It's just Robbie and his dad, but no one knows that his dad isn't like most parents. Sometimes he wakes Robbie up in the middle of the night to talk about dying. Sometimes he just leaves without telling Robbie where he's going. Once when Robbie was younger, he was gone for more than a week. Robbie was terrified of being left alone but even more scared of telling anyone in case he was put into foster care. No one can know. Until one day when Robbie has to show the tough new girl, Harmony, around school. Their first meeting ends horribly and she punches Robbie in the face. But eventually they come to realize that they have a lot more in common than they thought. Can Robbie's new friend be trusted to keep his secret?
Seventeen years old. Rich. Hot. Captain of the Drone War team. Head prefect of a surreally elite boarding school. Tremmy is dying.
His illness strips everything from him---including the support of his teachers and friends who once nurtured his bright future. Worst of all, his best friend’s meteoric rise has come at the expense of Tremmy’s spectacular fall. Far from going out with the bang he’d hoped for, Tremmy faces betrayal.
But his illness has the power to expose the best as well as the worst of his school, his friends and himself. Tremmy sets out to prove that the community he loves has to overcome its fear of death in order to truly begin to live. And Tremmy receive the momentous end he so fervently desires.
Link, Michael and Dana live in a quiet town. But it's woken up very quickly when someone sneaks into school and vandalizes it with a swastika. Nobody can believe it. How could such a symbol of hate end up in the middle of their school? Who would do such a thing? Because Michael was the first person to see it, he's the first suspect. Because Link is one of the most popular guys in school, everyone's looking to him to figure it out. And because Dana's the only Jewish girl in the whole town, everyone's treating her more like an outsider than ever. The mystery deepens as more swastikas begin to appear. Some students decide to fight back and start a project to bring people together instead of dividing them further. The closer Link, Michael and Dana get to the truth, the more there is to face – not just the crimes of the present, but the crimes of the past. With Linked, Gordon Korman, the author of the acclaimed novel Restart, poses a mystery for all readers where the who did it? isn't nearly as important as the why?
Rolando’s job was crushing his soul… and then it crushed his hand. Now he can barely get out of the house, marathoning TV and struggling to find meaning. Nerais a restless spirit who loves to taste everything life can offer, but sleeps in a broken-down food truck and can’t see a way to make her dreams come true. When their paths cross at a raucous rock show, the magical night seems to last forever. Together they throw caution to the wind, fix up the truck and hit the road for a wild adventure of biker gangs, secret herbs, mystical vision, and endless possibilities. But have they truly found the spice of life? Or has Rolando bitten off more than he can chew?
Ciel is excited to start high school. A gender non-conforming trans kid, Ciel has a YouTube channel and dreams of getting a better camera to really make their mark. Ciel can always rely on their best friend, Stephie, a trans girl who also happens to be a huge nerd. But their friendship begins to feel distant when Stephie makes it clear she wants the fact that she’s trans to be less visible now that they’re in high school. While navigating this new dynamic with Stephie, Ciel is also trying to make a long-distance relationship work with their boyfriend Eiríkur, who just moved back to Iceland. Add to the mix a cute swim star named Liam, and Ciel’s life is becoming more complicated by the minute!
A romantic, heart-felt, and whimsical novel about letting go of the past, figuring out what you want in your future, and staying in the moment before it passes you by. Weeks ago, Andre Cobb received a much-needed liver transplant. He's ready for his life to finally begin, until one night, when he passes out and wakes up somewhere totally unexpected...in 1969, where he connects with a magnetic boy named Michael. And then, just as suddenly as he arrived, he slips back to present-day Boston, where the family of his donor is waiting to explain that his new liver came with a side effect—the ability to time travel. And they've tasked their youngest son, Blake, with teaching Andre how to use his unexpected new gift.
On the night of September 11th, 2001, Baheer sees his family’s life instantly turned upside down when they lose their livelihood as war rocks the country. In Iowa, college freshman Joe is shipped off to Afghanistan with preconceived notions of the people he is tasked to help. When Joe and his fellow soldiers end up living next to Baheer’s family, the two are immediately wary of each other, but over time, the young men start to see one another as individuals and realize they have a lot more in common than they ever could have imagined. Will they be able to get past the deep differences in their experiences and beliefs to become true friends and allies?
Eric Walters of Guelph, Ontario has published more than 120 novels and picture books, which have won more than 100 awards including the Ontario Library Association’s Silver Birch (3x)and Red Maple (4x) awards, the Governor General’s Award, the U.S.’s Children’s Africana Book Award and the Sakura Medal in Japan.In 2015 Eric received the Order of Canada for his contributions to literacy and social justice issues. He is a highly popular speaker around the world.
He began writing while teaching a Grade 5 class of reluctant readers and writers, in order to encourage them toward literature. Today Eric’s novels are available around the world and have been translated into more than a dozen languages. Prior to entering teaching and writing, Eric was a social worker involved in child welfare, including in a mental health treatment centre and an emergency department.
Eric, his wife and two others are co-founders of The Creation of Hope www.creationofhope.com, which provides for more than 400 orphans and disadvantaged children in Kenya. He spends summers in Kenya at his orphanage.
He is the father of three, grandfather of six, and in his free time hikes, paddle boards, spends time at the family cottage and plans his next adventures. His website: www.ericwalters.net
Gordon Korman is the author of more than 90 novels that have sold over 30 million copies worldwide and been translated into 32 languages. He has won numerous awards and reached No. 1 on the New York Times Bestseller list. Born in Montreal (his mother a journalist, his father an accountant), he was raised in Toronto and published several books while attending high school before studying film and film-writing at New York University. He is married to a schoolteacher and has three children. These days, he divides his time between New York City, Ontario and Florida. His awards include the International Reading Association’s Children’s Choice Award and the American Library Association’s Best Book for Young Adults award (three times).
His website: https://gordonkorman.com/