Alan Lawrence Sitomer

Andre Anderson is a black teenager who loves to play basketball. When he is viciously attacked, it calls his whole world into question--even his deadly jumpshot.

Tenth-grader Sonia reveals secrets about her life and her Hispanic family as she studies hard to become the first Rodriguez to finish high school.

Here Sitomer shares modern methods for keeping students engaged in the "boring" classroom. It's understandable how school comes second to adolescents dealing with weighty issues in everyday life. That is why it's necessary to teach teens how to get involved in their education and take responsibility for it. Discover new ways-whether it be through hip-hop music or contemporary literature-to help students connect the outside world to life in the classroom....

Award-winning educator and author Alan Lawrence Sitomer's engaging young adult novels have been named among the ALA's Best Books of the Year. This first tale in his planned Nerd Girls series follows 13-year-old self-proclaimed "dorkasaurus" Maureen and her fellow social outcasts Alice and Barbara. When Maureen discovers that the Pretty, Popular, Perfect girls are planning a mean trick on Alice, she decides it's finally time to take a stand. Signing...

When Jake and Jenny say they are bored with all their books and retold tales, their father makes up a new bedtime story about a princess who drives a monster truck and battles aliens aided by a cupcake-baking unicorn.

From age three, McCutcheon Daniels, now sixteen, has been trained in Mixed Martial Arts and must keep winning to feed his five-year-old sister and father, but chance presents an opportunity to get out of the Detroit slums using his brain instead of his fighting skills.

All Bobby Connor wants is to survive middle school, but puberty is making that difficult for him as his body conspires against him.