It's just a lark, a way to kill time in a New York City diner, when 16-year-old Ted Burger and his friends Mark and Nikki jot down a list of ten things Ted must do before he, one faraway day, kicks the bucket. It's all pie-in-the-sky stuff until Ted discovers...he actually IS dying.

ALA Quick Pick
New York Public Library Top Teen Read for 2004

Alumni brat Sunday Winthrop and new student Fred Wright's pranks lead to their uncovering a sinister blackmail ring — one that will stop at nothing to incriminate one of their friends

2003 Edgar Award Winner for Best YA Novel

Sunday and Fred discover more about the sinister conspiracy at Wessex. The blackmailers are getting desperate....and they're willing to turn to murder.

In the satisfying conclusion Sunday and Fred pull off the scam of the century — and beat the blackmailers at their own game.

Logan Moore hates everyone. The father who abandoned him. The stepfather who wants to control him. Kids who get in his face. Everyone. Except Jack. A mangy mutt that nobody wants. Except Logan. He doesn't care that Jack has already bitten three workers at the animal shelter or that she's ugly. She's the only one who doesn't want anything from him and that's enough for Logan.

2005 Lone Star Award Winner
2005 Mark Twain Award Nominee
Minnesota Young Reader Award Nominee 2007

A dysfunctional trio of half-siblings comes together in the wake of their father's funeral; together they embark on a road trip that changes their lives forever.

NYPL Top Teen Read of 2007

A boarding-school-junior/comic-book-artist sets off with a beautiful aspiring police officer to save his father, end a family feud, and avert a curse in this wacky romantic caper, which includes a complete graphic novel.

In a harebrained scheme concocted by his neurotic older sister to forge a romantic relationship with the girl of his dreams, fifteen-year-old Dave Rosen pretends to be a female advice columnist for his school newspaper.

This anthology is in stores! I never went to a prom, but somehow I finagled my way into co-editing this amazing anthology with David Levithan. The author line-up is pretty mind blowing. You must see and read for yourself to believe it. And all proceeds go the charity Advocates for Youth.