Kathe Koja
1) Buddha boy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 4
Formats
Description
Justin spends time with Jinsen, the unusual and artistic new student whom the school bullies torment and call Buddha Boy, and ends up making choices that impact Jinsen, himself, and the entire school.
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 4
Description
The stress of finishing high school is compounded for Dana as she comes to realize that her best friend, Avra, is not the "queen bee" she has always seemed to be, and that Avra's boyfriend, Emil, might actually prefer a humble "worker bee" like herself.
3) Talk
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Hoping to escape from himself for awhile, Kit auditions for a controversial school play and discovers his talent for acting, struggles with coming out, and both he and his costar face crises in their view of themselves and in their close relationships. Told from two points of view.
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Seventeen-year-old loner Maggy Klass, who frequently seeks refuge from her alcoholic mother's apartment by sitting and drawing in a local cafe, becomes involved in a destructive relationship with a charismatic homeless youth named Cole.
5) Going under
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Alternating passages that draw on the myths of Persephone and Narcissus juxtapose the differing viewpoints of a teenaged girl and her older brother as she tries to prevent a manipulative psychotherapist from using her journal as material in a book.
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"Winner of the Bram Stoker Award and Locus Awards, finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award, and named one of io9.com's "Top 10 Debut Science Fiction Novels That Took the World By Storm." With a new afterword by Maryse Meijer, author of Heartbreaker and Rag. "Black. Pure black and the sense of pulsation, especially when you look at it too closely, the sense of something not living but alive." When a strange hole materializes in a storage room, would-be...
