Fourteen-year-old John lives with his single mother and her boyfriend, a man who is violent towards him whenever John's mother is not around. John believes that if he tells his mother about the abuse, she will side with "the man who is not my father". There's a lot of pain, humour and horror in this book before John resolves his relationship with his mother and lets her begin to know him.

You Don't Know Me

David Klass

Teen & Young Adult

Puffin

Joe Brickman is looking forward to his year as captain of the Lawndale High soccer team - and to a blooming relationship with his neighbour Kristine. But when the social structure of the school begins to crumble, Joe finds himself on the wrong side of the new order. Violence has always been part of school life - especially at Lawndale. It goes back generations. But as the brutal, tribal rules that govern the school are exposed, Joe has to find the courage to break free...

The Braves

You think you know John? Well, let's see . . . What bathroom fixture did his father have in mind at his birth? Does algebra have a use, besides torture? Who is Glory Halle-lujah? Who is Violent Hayes? What do they want? Who or what are the Lashasa Palulu? Why do fools fall in love? How can anyone who is fighting a secret battle for his life know anyone? And how can they know him?

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Frances Foster Books

Losers take all

Scholastic. Inc.

What's the hook? The realistic and compelling first-person narrative arrests pupils from the beginning. What are the themes? Growing up, family and relationships are presented with deft humour and insight. Teaching points? An excellent model for exploring the use of rhetorical devices in a text.

You Don't Know Me?

Reference

Pearson/Longman

Danger Zone

Demco Media

Children's Books

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Perfection Learning

Home Of The Braves

That was the truth I came to in that long and frozen moment. This was my life. Not the life of any of the people around me, clamoring for blood, but mine. I had to make the decision, and I had to make it now, or it would be made for me.

Home of the Braves

Wrestling With Honor

Champion high school wrestler Ron Woods faces a soul-searching season when he refuses to retake a mandatory drug test he has failed. This decision affects every area of his life, including his feelings about his father, who died in Vietnam, and his first tentative romance.

Bt Bound

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