When seventeen-year-old Alex starts dating Cole, a new boy at her high school, her two closest friends increasingly mistrust him as the relationship grows more serious.

"'Dad, what happened?'...The shootings keep coming, and so do Jeremiah's questions. Dad doesn't have easy answers, but that doesn't mean he won't talk about it - or that he won't act.... Even if he wants to believe in a better world, is there anything Jeremiah can do about it?"--from front jacket flap.

The death of her abusive, manipulative older sister prompts seventeen-year-old Em to remember their unpleasant life together, with their parents and then later on their own.

Seventeen-year-old Teddy Anderson, who is known on the streets as T-Bear, decides to seek revenge on the person responsible for his little sister's death, which was caused by a stray bullet from a semiautomatic handgun.

As American bombs fall on Baghdad during the Iraq War, ten-year-old cousins Nouri and Talib witness the growing violence between Sunni and Shiite Muslims.

Xander hopes to get through what he hopes is a great summer, and then start college with a clean slate; however, his graduation day from high school brings terror, and he runs away.

Ein hochbrisantes Thema. Ein Buch, das zeigt, wie Gewalt entsteht, und das zur Pflichtlektüre an unseren Schulen werden sollte. Eine Stadt wie viele andere. Irgendwo hier und heute. Niklas, dreizehn, wird von einem Mitschüler terrorisiert. Karl heißt der und ist neu in der Klasse. Niklas wäre diesem Karl gern aus dem Weg gegangen, aber Frau Römer, die Lehrerin, hat die Themen für die Referate so verteilt, dass er ausgerechnet mit ihm zusammenarbeiten...

Avant, Paulo, son frère Sam ainsi que leurs amis Pierrot et Maria vivaient dans un milieu familial violent. Ils avaient souvent peur. Aujourd'hui, tout ça est bien fini. Ils sont heureux. Un samedi d'automne, ensemble, ils s'inventent une aventure de chevaliers. Ils fabriquent le Roi de la Cour et lui confient leur histoire.

Depuis la séparation de ses parents, Justine essaie tant bien que mal d'améliorer sa relation avec eux et de s'acclimater à ses deux familles recomposées. En grandissant, elle affronte seule les difficultés du quotidien et combat le sentiment de n'avoir sa place nulle part. Puis, le jour de ses seize ans, tout bascule. Ne contrlant plus rien, elle voit rouge et déchaîne sa colère. Désormais, ses mains sont tachées du sang de sa victime....

Thirteen-year-old Earl Pryor is much too big for his age, and much too powerful for the anger that rages within him when classmates tease him, the girl he likes disappoints him, or his parents' problems get too real.