The Unthinkable Thoughts of Jacob Green
by Joshua Braff | 
Towelhead
by Alicia Erian | 
In Zanesville
by Jo Ann Beard | 
Greyhound
by Steffan Piper | 
Things Unspoken
by Anitra Sheen | 
Joy School
by Elizabeth Berg | 
The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley
by Hannah Tinti | 
Bilgewater
by Jane Gardam | 
Durable Goods
by Elizabeth Berg | 
The Summer of Naked Swim Parties
by Jessica Anya Blau | 
The Saskiad
by Brian Hall | 
Sag Harbor
by Colson Whitehead | 
American Boy
by Larry Watson | 
Object Lessons
by Anna Quindlen | 
The Center of Everything
by Laura Moriarty | 
The Fog Within
by Nick Shamhart |
After Ever After
by Jordan Sonnenblick | 
Lost in the Sun
by Lisa Graff |
If I Grow Up
by Todd Strasser |
The Misfits
by James Howe |
One moonlit night, thirteen-year-old Miles O'Malley sneaks out of his house and goes exploring on the tidal flats of Puget Sound. When he discovers a rare giant squid, he instantly becomes a local phenomenon shadowed by people curious as to whether this speed-reading, Rachel Carson obsessed teenager is just an observant boy or an unlikely prophet. But Miles is really just a kid on the verge of growing up, infatuated with the girl next door, worried that his bickering parents will divorce, and fearful that everything, even the bay he loves, is shifting away from him. As the sea continues to offer up discoveries from its mysterious depths, Miles struggles to deal with the difficulties that attend the equally mysterious process of growing up.