Monster

Walter Dean Myers

Publisher: HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS

Steven can see his life like a movie script. While he is in court being tried for murder he writes down his thoughts as well as what he sees in the form of a movie script.

Cleverly written in the form of a movie script - including side notes, different types of shots, and voice overs.

Warnings: He spends quite a bit of time at the jail and at the jail a lot of the talk is crude.

Gold Dust

Chris Lynch

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Richard Riley Moncreif loves baseball. Even more than baseball, he loves hitting the ball. Winning doesn't matter to him, just hitting the ball. Richard doesn't quite understand that not everyone loves baseball as much as he does. He doesn't understand why somone would attend a concert rather than practice in the batting cage. He also doesn't understand why several people don't like his new friend, Napoleon Charlie Ellis. Napoleon teaches Richard what racism looks like and shows him there is more to life than just baseball.