(Un)arranged Marriage
by Bali Rai
Corgi Childrens
ISBN: 0552547344

When Manjit is told by his stricly Punjabi parents that he is to be married off at the age of 17 his world falls apart. All the things he cared about - his white girlfriend, his best friend, his education - have to be abandoned to keep up the family's honour. A moving tale of one boy's struggle against the odds.

Shopaholic
by Judy Waite
Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192752758

Taylor lives alone with her depressed mother and has to take charge of all the household chores and grocery shopping, while her friends are starting to get interested in clothes, make-up, and boys. Taylor feelis like she's getting left behind.

So when Kat, a pretty, popular, older girl arrives on the scene Taylor is desperate to be her friend. Kat knows all the best places to buy clothes and Taylor loves going shopping with her. But before long Kat is encouraging her to dip into the housekeeping money so she can buy new things, and soon Taylor finds herself in a terrible situation...

Stop Pretending
by Sonya Sones
HarperCollins
ISBN: 0060283874

When a young girl's big sister has a mental breakdown she must learn to deal with the enormous emotional turmoil in the household... Grief, pain, secrecy, pretence and confusion do lead, eventually, to acceptance.