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  Alex As Well

  Alyssa Brugman

  Alex has turned vegetarian, changed schools, stopped taking her medications, and created a new identity. An identity that shakes her world. And Alex - the other Alex - has a lot to say about it.

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  A List of Cages

  Robin Roe

  When Adam Blake lands the best elective ever in his senior year, serving as an aide to the school psychologist, he thinks he's got it made. Sure, it means a lot of sitting around, which isn't easy for a guy with ADHD, but he can't complain, since he gets to spend the period texting all his friends. Then the doctor asks him to track down the troubled freshman who keeps dodging her, and Adam discovers that the boy is Julian; the foster brother he hasn't seen in five years.

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  All About Adoption: How Families are Made & How Kids Feel About It

  Marc. A. Nemiroff and Jane Annunziata

  Using simple language, describes the stages of the adoption process and discusses complex feelings commonly felt by adopted children.

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  All About Adoption: How to Deal with the Questions of Your Past

  Anne Lanchon

  Part of the "Sunscreen" series, this book uses personal testimonial advice to help kids understand the questions about their own lives. It also discusses issues for kids who are of a different ethnic background than their adoptive parents, and includes kids who don't want to find out about their birth parentage.

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  All Alone in the World: Children of the Incarcerated

  Nell Bernstein

  In this "moving condemnation of the U.S. penal system and its effect on families" (Parents’ Press), award-winning journalist Nell Bernstein takes an intimate look at parents and children—over two million of them—torn apart by our current incarceration policy. Described as "meticulously reported and sensitively written" by Salon, the book is "brimming with compelling case studies...and recommendations for change" (Orlando Sentinel); Our Weekly Los Angelescalls it "a must-read for lawmakers as well as for lawbreakers."

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  All American Boys

  Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely

  Sixteen-year-old Rashad is mistakenly accused of stealing. Classmate Quinn witnesses his brutal beating at the hands of a police officer who's the older brother of his best friend.

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  All are Welcome

  Alexandra Penfold

  Illustrations and simple, rhyming text introduce a school where diversity is celebrated and songs, stories, and talents are shared.

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  All Cats Have Asperger Syndrome

  Kathy Hoopmann

  Pictures of cats in usual and unusual positions help illustrate how the behaviors of people with Asperger's syndrome are similar to those of cats.

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  All Dogs Have ADHD

  Kathy Hoopmann

  All Dogs Have ADHD takes an inspiring and affectionate look at Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), using images and ideas from the canine world. Charming colour photographs of dogs bring to life familiar ADHD characteristics such as being restless and excitable, getting easily distracted, and acting on impulse.

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  All Families are Different

  Sol Gordon and Vivien Cohen

  Discusses differences in families in today's society, as well as what makes each family special.

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  All Families are Special

  Norma Simon

  Students in Mrs. Mack's class describe their families--big or small, living together or apart, with two moms or none--and learn why every family is special and important.

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  Allison

  Allen Say

  When Allison realizes that she looks more like her favorite doll than like her parents, she comes to terms with this unwelcomed discovery through the help of a stray cat.

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  All I Want to Be is Me

  Phyllis Rothblatt

  "All I Want To Be Is Me" is a beautifully illustrated children's book reflecting the diverse ways that young children experience and express their gender. The book gives voice to the feelings of children who don't fit into narrow gender stereotypes, and who just want to be free to be themselves. This book is a celebration of all children being who they are, and is a positive reflection of children, wherever they experience themselves on the gender spectrum. "All I Want To Be Is Me" offers a wonderful way for all children to learn about gender diversity, embracing different ways to be, and being a true friend.

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  All Kinds of Friends, Even Green!

  Ellen B. Senisi

  In a school assignment, seven-year-old Moses, who has spina bifida and uses a wheelchair, reflects that his neighbor's disabled iguana resembles him because they both have figured out how to get where they want to be in different ways than those around them.

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  All Mixed Up! (Amy Hodgepodge, #1)

  Kim Wayans and Kevin Knotts

  Attending a "regular" school for the first time, former homeschooler Amy, whose family is racially mixed, meets new friends who celebrate their differences and include Amy in their song and dance routine for the upcoming talent show.

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  All My Stripes: A Story for Children with Autism

  Shaina Rudolph and Danielle Royer

  Zane rushes home to tell his mother about problems he faced during his school day, and she reminds him that while others may only see his "autism stripe," he has stripes for honesty, caring, and much more.

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  All the Colors of the Earth

  Sheila Hamanaka

  Reveals in verse that despite outward differences children everywhere are essentially the same and all are lovable.

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  All the Colors of the Race

  Arnold Adoff

  A collection of poems written from the point of view of a child with a black mother and a white father.

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  All the Lights in the Night

  Arthur A. Levine

  Two brothers celebrate Hanukkah on a true and unforgettable journey to freedom as they escape from Tsarist Russia and travel on to Palestine. "The narrative is convincing; the characterizations are natural; and the resolution is touching.

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  All the Stars Denied

  Guadalupe Garcia McCall

  When resentment surges during the Great Depression in a Texas border town, Estrella, fifteen, organizes a protest against the treatment of tejanos and soon finds herself with her mother and baby brother in Mexico.

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  All We Can Do Is Wait

  Richard Lawson

  In the hours after a bridge collapse rocks their city, four teens are forced to face their pasts and the prospect of very different futures as they wait at Boston General Hospital for news of their loved ones.

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  All We Have Left

  Wendy Mills

  In interweaving stories of sixteen-year-olds, modern-day Jesse tries to cope with the ramifications of her brother's death on 9/11, while in 2001, Alia, a Muslim, gets trapped in one of the Twin Towers and meets a boy who changes everything for her as flames rage around them.

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  All You Can Ever Know

  Nicole Chung

  Nicole Chung was born severely premature, placed for adoption by her Korean parents, and raised by a white family in a sheltered Oregon town. From childhood, she heard the story of her adoption as a comforting, prepackaged myth. She believed that her biological parents had made the ultimate sacrifice in the hope of giving her a better life, that forever feeling slightly out of place was her fate as a transracial adoptee. But as Nicole grew up―facing prejudice her adoptive family couldn’t see, finding her identity as an Asian American and as a writer, becoming ever more curious about where she came from―she wondered if the story she’d been told was the whole truth.

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  Almost Perfect

  Brian Katcher

  With his mother working long hours and in pain from a romantic break-up, eighteen-year-old Logan feels alone and unloved until a zany new student arrives at his small-town Missouri high school, keeping a big secret.

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  Along for the ride : a novel

  Sarah Dessen

  It's been so long since Auden slept at night. Ever since her parents' divorce - or since the fighting started. Now she has the chance to spend a carefree summer with her dad and his new family in the charming beach town where they live. A job in a clothes boutique introduces Auden to the world of girls: their talk, their friendship, their crushes. She missed out on all that, too busy being the perfect daughter to her demanding mother. Then she meets Eli, an intriguing loner and a fellow insomniac who becomes her guide to the nocturnal world of the town.