Paul Griffin

Seventh-grader Ben, always an outsider, is led into a deep friendship with Halley, who is being treated for cancer, by the special dog he and his adoptive mother take in.

Fifteen-year-olds Mack, a high school drop-out but a genius with dogs, and Céce, who hopes to use her intelligence to avoid a life like her mother's, meet and fall in love at the restaurant where they both work, but when Mack lands in prison he pushes Céce away and only a one-eared pit-bull can keep them together.

Cassie, Tim, Emily, Brandon, and Jay-- teenagers from the elite Hartwell Academy-- are on their way back to New York from a camping trip in Idaho. They have a replacement pilot, Cassie falls ill, and Jay notices the play is flying west instead of east. They've been hijacked, and are trapped thirty-seven thousand feet in the air. Their only chance to survive is by working together-- but can they trust each other? -- adapted from jacket

Having escaped from juvenile detention centers and foster care, two teenaged boys live on their own in an abandoned shack in a New York City park, making their way by stealing, occasionally working, and trying to keep from being arrested.

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