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In the summer before middle school, eleven-year-old Bug must contend with best friend Moira suddenly caring about clothes, makeup, and boys; a ghost haunting; and the truth about Bug's gender identity.
It's the summer before middle school and eleven-year-old Bug's best friend Moira has decided the two of them need to use the next few months to prepare. For Moira, this means figuring out the right clothes to wear, learning how to put on makeup, and...
Author
Series
Zora and me volume 1
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
A fictionalized account of Zora Neale Hurston's childhood with her best friend Carrie, in Eatonville, Florida, as they learn about life, death, and the differences between truth, lies, and pretending. Includes an annotated bibliography of the works of Zora Neale Hurston, a short biography of the author, and information about Eatonville, Florida.
44) Bones of Faerie
Author
Series
Bones of Faerie trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Fifteen-year-old Liza travels through war-ravaged territory in a struggle to bridge the faerie and human worlds and to bring back her mother while learning of her own powers and that magic can be controlled.
46) Sea change
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
"Follows a young boy who is reluctantly sent to spend the summer in a remote part of Nova Scotia. As the summer wears on, the hero forges solid friendships with other kids in the small fishing community and is changed forever by the experience"--
47) Queen of hearts
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Description
Shortly after her first kiss but before her sixteenth birthday in December, 1941, Marie Claire and her younger brother and sister are sent to a tuberculosis sanatorium near their Manitoba farm.
48) The long hunter
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Description
After Indians kill his parents and kidnap his sister, fourteen-year-old Matt searches for her, gaining along the way survival skills from his experiences and a yearning for a true home and family.
Author
Series
Alice McKinley. Main series volume 25
Pub. Date
2013
Description
As Alice McKinley begins a new phase as a student at the University of Maryland, College Park, she experiences many changes, both expected and surprising, that lead her into a future her seventh-grade self could only have imagined.
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Description
From the publisher. Dennis was different. Why was he different, you ask?Well, a small clue might be in the title of this book...Charming, surprising and hilarious -- The Boy in the Dress is everything you would expect from the co-creator of Little Britain. David Walliams's beautiful first novel will touch the hearts (and funny bones) of children and adults alike.
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Yanked out of his city life and plunked down into a small Montana town with his father and his father's boyfriend, seventeen-year-old Ben, angry and resentful about the changed circumstances of his life, begins to notice that something is not quite right with the little boy next door and determines to do something about it.
52) Sprout
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Moving from Long Island to Kansas after his mother dies, a teenaged boy nicknamed Sprout is surprised to find new friends, a fascinating landscape, and romantic love.
56) Hide and seek
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Description
In the remote mountains of Arizona where he lives with his mother, stepfather, and two sisters, fourteen-year-old Chase discovers two kidnapped boys and gets caught up in a dangerous adventure when he comes up with a plan to get them to safety.
57) Leftovers
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Two teenagers, Blair and Ardith, lose their innocence in more ways than one as they are transformed from happy ninth-graders to high school sophomores determined to secure justice for their families and friends, whatever the cost.
58) Beyond Invisible
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Series
Better Together volume Book Two
Pub. Date
2021
Description
After tragedy and illness brought Amber and Missy together in Being is Better, the girls, now in high school, continue their journey to unravel the mystery behind Missy’s brother Frankie’s Army enlistment and the cause of his death.
Meanwhile, both girls experience first love, and Amber supports Missy, who continues to resent her father and struggles to accept his new girlfriend.
Will they be able to discover the reason for Frankie’s sudden...
Author
Series
Star trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
Answering a call of distress, the knight Michael finds the king of Gladur Nock surprisingly reluctant to be rid of the shadow of fear the dragon casts over his land. Then he meets Princess Aina, a warrior maiden who first imprisons men and then trains them to do battle against the dragon. With whom should he align himself? What chance does he stand against a ruthless and remorseless dragon? Has all his training with a Luck Dragon prepared him well...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
The Snow Panthers are summoned to carry out a risky and complicated mission to obtain an object of power which will help destroy the evil which is on its way across the northern mountains to the capital. This is not the only danger our friends will have to face, since the Dark Rangers and the Zangrians continue to pose an ever-present threat, both to the realm and the Panthers.