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Avatar, The Last Airbender - Team Avatar Tales by Gene Luen Yang; Dave Scheidt; Sara Goetter; Ron Koertge; Faith Erin Hicks (Illustrator)
Category: Children's Graphic Novels
Journey with Team Avatar as they rescue a pumpkin farmer waylaid by monsters, go undercover in the Fire Nation, help an old rival with a hair-raising problem, and reflect on what it means to save the world in this comics anthology. Featuring the work of an all-star cast of creators including Gene Luen Y ...Show more
Boy Girl Boy by Ron Koertge
Category: Young Adult
Larry, Teresa, and Elliot are so tight, there's no room in their circle for more than three: boy, girl, boy. And when they graduate, they plan to move to California to start their "real" lives--together. But who are they fooling? Larry is gay and trying to come to terms with his sexuality. Teresa is tir ...Show more
Coaltown Jesus by Ron Koertge
Category: Children's
When Jesus shows up in Walker's life, healing triumphs over heartbreak in Koertge's finest and funniest novel yet. Walker shouldn't have been so surprised to find Jesus standing in the middle of his bedroom. After all, he'd prayed for whoever was up there to help him, and to help his mom, who hadn't sto ...Show more
Lies, Knives, and Girls in Red Dresses by Ron Koertge
Category: Young Adult Fiction
Writing in free verse honed to a wicked edge, the incomparable Ron Koertge brings dark and contemporary humor to twenty iconic fairy tales. Once upon a time, there was a strung-out match girl who sold CDs to stoners. Twelve impetuous sisters escaped King Daddy's clutches to jiggle and cavort and wear ou ...Show more
Margaux with an X by Ron Koertge
Category: Young Adult
Drop-dead gorgeous, razor-sharp wit, charter member of the school's most popular clique - Margaux (with an "x") is too smart, too beautiful and too haunted to ever really connect with anyone.
Margaux with an X by Ron Koertge
Category: Young Adult
"A meticulously crafted story of an unexpected friendship." -- THE HORN BOOK (starred review) An American Library Association Best Book for Young Adults A New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age
Now Playing (Stoner & Spaz #2) by Ron Koertge
Category: Young Adult | Series: Stoner & Spaz
Quick repartee. Unsparing wit. Insight, poignancy, and spot-on characters. Welcome the much-awaited sequel to the acclaimed Stoner & Spaz. Beautiful but troubled Colleen Minou is the only girl who ever looked at Ben Bancroft as more than a spaz-- more than just that kid with cerebral palsy. Yet the ...Show more
Shakespeare Makes the Playoffs by Koertge, Ron
Category: Children's
A novel in verse. Fielding his social life is a bigger challenge for Kevin than hitting a fastball in Ron Koertge's funny, insightful sequel to SHAKESPEARE BATS CLEANUP. Fourteen-year-old Kevin Boland has a passion for playing baseball, aknack for writing poetry -- and a cute girlfriend named Mira who's ...Show more
Shakespeare Makes the Playoffs by Ron Koertge
Category: Young Adult
Fielding his social life is a bigger challenge for Kevin than hitting a fastball in Ron Koertge's funny, insightful sequel to SHAKESPEARE BATS CLEANUP. Fourteen-year-old Kevin Boland has a passion for playing baseball, a knack for writing poetry and a cute girlfriend named Mira who's not much interested ...Show more
Stoner & Spaz (#1) by Ron Koertge
Category: Young Adult Fiction | Series: Stoner & Spaz
A funny, in-your-face novel starring an unlikely teenage pair - a sheltered cinemaphile with cerebral palsy and the tattooed, straight-talking stoner who steals his heart. For sixteen-year-old Ben Bancroft - a kid with cerebral palsy, no parents, and an overprotective grandmother - the closest thing t ...Show more
Stoner and Spaz by Ron Koertge
Category: Young Adult
This is the hard-hitting story of Ben (nicknamed Spaz, as in spastic, because he has cerebral palsy) and Colleen (Stoner, the tough school drug-dealer). Spaz is a nerd but his wicked sense of humour deflects pity or ostracism. He lives with an over-protective grandmother and his deep loneliness frequen ...Show more
Strays by Ron Koertge
Category: Children's
Could life as a foster kid lead to unexpected benefits? A teenager's link to animals gives way to human connection in a smart, incisive new novel. Sixteen-year-old Ted O'Connor's parents just died in a fiery car crash, and now he's stuck with a set of semi-psycho foster parents, two foster brothers -- A ...Show more