Conejos Library District

A young girl living in an Hispanic neighborhood in Chicago ponders the advantages and disadvantages of her environment and evaluates her relationships with family and friends.

Records the courage and self-reliance of an Indian girl who lived alone for eighteen years on an isolated island off the California coast.

Faced with the difficulties of growing up and choosing a religion, a twelve-year-old girl talks over her problems with her own private God.

When young Ofelia and her mother go to live with her new stepfather on a rural military outpost, she finds herself in a world of unimaginable cruelty. Soon Ofelia finds the creatures of her imagination in which she used to escape have become a reality and she must battle them to save both her mother and herself. In the terrifying battle that ensues, Ofelia soon learns that innocence has a power that evil cannot imagine.

Conceived to provide a bone marrow match for her leukemia-stricken sister, teenage Kate begins to question her moral obligations in light of countless medical procedures and decides to fight for the right to make decisions about her own body. "Anna Fitzgerald no está enferma, aunque pudiera parecerlo. Con apenas trece años de edad ha soportado innumerables operaciones, inyecciones y transfusiones para que su hermana mayor Kate pueda de alguna manera...

Espina Bathu es una de las pocas chicas de Gettlandia que ha recibido el don de la Madre Guerra. Desesperada por vengar la muerte de su padre, vive para la lucha. Pero tras un trg̀ico accidente en el cuadrado de entrenamiento, su propio instructor la tacha de asesina y se convierte en una proscrita. Zafandose del destino, la joven queda atrapada en una conspiracin̤ cuando se embarca en la nave del padre Yarvi, un clřigo tremendamente astuto. Junto...

Teenage Dime has trouble following her parents' rules after her older brother, Darren's, accident that left him a parapalegic, so their parents agree to let Dime move in with Darren.

Cinder, Thorne y Wolf son los fugitivos m�s buscados. Juntos, planean destronar a la reina Levana y destruir su armada. Todas sus esperanzas est�n puestas en Cress, una joven hacker que se encuentra atrapada en un sat�lite. Durante toda su vida, estuvo rodeada de pantallas, observando, espiando. Lo �nico con lo que siempre so�� fue con ser libre. Y finalmente logra escapar ... pero el precio que deber� pagar es m�s...

Caz thinks she has a pretty good reason when she punches her boyfriend in the face, but she gets expelled anyway. Moving to a new school, she is told she is dyslexic and sent to special education classes. Caz tries to fit in and get by while suffering the taunts and abuse that others throw at the students in her class. Her friendship with Amanda leads her into new territory-- shop-lifting and skipping school. Coupled with her parents' impending separation,...