Celebrate her birthday today by checking out one of her excellent novels in verse, located in our Young Adult Fiction section!
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Kristina Georgia Snow is the perfect daughter, gifted high school
junior, quiet, never any trouble. But on a trip to visit her absentee
father, Kristina disappears and Bree takes her place. Bree is the exact
opposite of Kristina. Through a boy, Bree meets the monster: crank. And
what begins as a wild ecstatic ride turns into a struggle through hell
for her mind, her soul - her life. |
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Seventeen-year-old Pattyn, the eldest daughter in a large Mormon family,
is sent to her aunt's Nevada ranch for the summer, where she
temporarily escapes her alcoholic, abusive father and finds love and
acceptance, only to lose everything when she returns home. |
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In a powerful sequel to Crank, Kristina is determined to manage her
addiction to crack in order to keep her newborn child, but when she is
unable to manage her use of the drug and the pull becomes too strong,
her greatest fears are quickly realized. |
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Three teens who meet at Reno, Nevada's Aspen Springs mental hospital
after each has attempted suicide connect with each other in a way they
never have with their parents or anyone else in their lives. |
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Sixteen-year-old identical twin daughters of a district court judge and a
candidate for the United States House of Representatives, Kaeleigh and
Raeanne Gardella desperately struggle with secrets that have already
torn them and their family apart. |
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Five troubled teenagers fall into prostitution as they search for freedom, safety, community, family, and love. |
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Written in free verse, explores how three teenagers try to cope with the
consequences of their mother's addiction to crystal meth and its
effects on their lives. |
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Northern Nevada teenagers Cara, Kendra, Sean, and Andre, tell in their
own voices of their very different paths toward perfection and how their
goals change when tragedy strikes. |
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Three teens, connected by their parents' bad choices, tell in their own
voices of their lives and loves as Shane finds his first boyfriend,
Mikayla discovers that love can be pushed too far, and Harley loses
herself in her quest for new experiences. |
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After the death of her abusive father and loss of her beloved Ethan and
their unborn child, Pattyn runs away, desperately seeking peace, as her
younger sister, a sophomore in high school, also tries to put the pieces
of her life back together. |
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