It's a Hard Knock Life

One reckless act on the ride home leaves Sasha burned, and Richard charged with hate crimes and facing life imprisonment.

Matt believes that starving himself gives him superpowers he can use to find his runaway sister and deal with life.

An eccentric undertaker in 1970s Beirut confronts perspectives on death in the face of war.

Inspired by Stuart's relationship with his autistic son, this is a true-to-life novel about the power of difference.

The stunning memoir of a fifteen-year old who lived on the streets but survived to make it to Harvard.

Caden Bosch is torn. Caden Bosch is dealing with schizophrenia...

The intense memoir of a North Korean boy forced to live on the streets and fend for himself.

Oskar Schell is on an urgent, secret search to find the lock belonging to his father, who died on 9/11.

Ally's greatest fear is that everyone will find out she is as dumb as they think she is.

A Tanzanian albino boy finds himself the ultimate outsider, hunted because of the color of his skin.

Alaska, 1974. Ernt Allbright came home from the Vietnam War a changed and volatile man.

This graphic memoir discusses the author’s life growing up with a drug-addicted mother, a missing father, and two opinionated grandparents.

When Shyima was eight her parents sold her into slavery, and she eventually moved to California with her captors.

A popular children’s author relates his journey through drug addition, smuggling, incarceration, and redemption.

Diane Guerrero when her parents and brother were arrested and deported to Colombia while she was at school.

The compelling story of Stevenson's merciful work to protect the rights of incarcerated people on the margins of American society.

It is estimated that there are some 300,000 child soldiers. Ishmael Beah used to be one of them.

Elwood Curtis is unfairly sentenced to a juvenile reformatory and finds himself trapped in a grotesque chamber of horrors.

A teenager's memoir of being bullied and being HIV positive to become a force for change in this world.

Matthew recounts his attempts since childhood to free himself and his sisters from their emotionally and physically abusive mother.