Books in Livewire Series series

In a series of letters to her best friend Jean, Maxine talks about her plans to leave home, after her parents announce they can no longer afford to keep her on at school.

Containing both science fiction and horror short stories, this collection is not for the squeamish!

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The 24 young women featured in this collection of first-hand accounts describe their own and others' responses on discovering they were pregnant, the options that were open to them, and how pregnancy and young motherhood has affected their lives.

A fourteen-year-old girl tries to reconcile her dreams and hopes for the future with the harsh and often unpleasant realities of life in the African American section of town.

Coll thinks the boy she sees swimming every Thursday night is completely gorgeous—long and lean, powerful and strong. He becomes the fantasy that takes her out of her ordinary day-to-day existence. And then he asks her out, and the dream becomes reality. Art is strong and powerful, and he's also quite pushy. Just what is Coll getting into?

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Although Cairo loves her white adoptive family, and knows that they love her, when they move to London she is glad to have a chance to make Black friends for the first time and to explore what it means to be Black in England

This powerful novel, aimed at teenagers, gets right inside the experience of being bullied and treats a difficult subject with wisdom, wit, and understanding.

Disabled in childhood, Dinah has always felt second-best to her twin sister, Stacey. Since she is in her final year at school, perhaps it's time for Dinah to start believing in herself and forge an identity independent of her sister.