Rafe heads back to the place his misadventures began: the dreaded Hills Village Middle School, where he's now being forced to take "special" classes. He also finds himself joining the school's football team--alongside his main tormentor...
Family life
- Author:Patterson, James, Tebbetts, ChristopherSummary:
- Author:McDonald, MeganSummary:
After her parents divorce, fun-loving San Francisco girl Julie moves away from her best friend Ivy to start over again in a new house and school. But before long, she learns to create a few changes of her own--from saving endangered...
- Author:Cooney, Caroline B.Summary:
At college in New York City, Janie Johnson, aka Jennie Spring, seems to have successfully left behind her past as "The face on the milk carton," but soon she, her families, and friends are pursued by a true-crime writer who wants their...
- Author:Stepanova, MariaSummary:
An exciting contemporary Russian writer explores terra incognita: the still-living margins of history. With the death of her aunt, the narrator is left to sift through an apartment full of faded photographs, old postcards, letters,...
- Author:Atkinson, E. J.Summary:
Growing up near Boston with her free-spirited mother and old-world grandfather, twelve-year-old Emma has always felt out of place but when she attends the family reunion her father's family holds annually in Wisconsin, she is in for...
- Author:Keating, JessSummary:
When twelve-year-old Ana's zoologist parents move the whole family into the zoo, the Sneers--the clan of carnivorous female predators in her class--have even more ammunition to make her life miserable, although she tries to act like a...
- Author:Patterson, James, Grabenstein, ChrisSummary:
It was never easy for Sammy Hayes-Rodriguez to fit in, so he's dreading the day when his genius mom insists he bring her newest invention to school: a walking, talking robot called "E" that thinks it's Sammy's brother. Will E be Sammy's...
- Author:Girard-Audet, Catherine, Lakhdari, Nadia, Bournival, JoséeSummary:
Nadia Lakdhari, Josée Bournival et Catherine Girard-Audet nous ont concocté 3 histoires de mamans… pas que pour les mamans ! Une lecture estivale qui promet un arc-en-ciel d'émotions et un soutien à une cause toute féminine puisque...
- Author:HOLLOWAY, JudithSummary:
Ruby loves her half-sister, Hine, and treasures all the fun times they share together. Hine has suffered from a serious illness since her birth, and she dies a few months before her tenth birthday. Ruby attends Hine's tangi and...
- Author:Dupuis,Jenny KaySummary:
On a visit to her granny, Maggie learns about perseverance through her first beading project. As they work, Granny shares how beading helped her stay connected to her Anishinaabe culture when she lost her Indian status. In this...
- Author:Scott, KieranSummary:
Told in two voices, Allie and Jake continue to be bombarded by family issues and pressures from the "Cresties" and their poorer counterparts as they spend a summer dealing with the fallout of their breakup.
- Author:Deuker, CarlSummary:
Running back Mick Johnson has dreams: dreams of cutting back, finding the hole, breaking into the open, and running free with nothing but green grass ahead. He has dreams of winning and of being the best. But football is a cruel sport....
- Author:Williams-Garcia, RitaSummary:
Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern are off to Alabama to visit their grandmother Big Ma and her mother Ma Charles. Across the way lives Ma Charles' half sister, though the two haven't spoken in years. But when tragedy strikes, Delphine...
- Author:Freitas, DonnaSummary:
Joey Jordan loves gymnastics: the thrill of performing a backflip on the beam, the cheers of the audience when she sticks a landing. But even with all her talent and style, she's never quite made it to that gold medal stand. Now big...
- Author:Jacques, CarolineSummary:
La vie de Carlie a changé depuis son retour d'Afrique. James et elle sont désormais parents de deux fillettes et mènent une vie rangée mais essoufflante – jusqu'à ce que Carlie provoque l'éclatement de ce quotidien au...
- Author:Rhodes, Jewell ParkerSummary:
Twelve-year-old Jerome is shot by a police officer who mistakes his toy gun for a real threat. As a ghost, he observes the devastation unleashed on his family and community. This gripping story is about how children, families--and one...
- Author:Madden, KerrySummary:
In the early 1960s, twelve-year-old songwriter Livy Two Weems dreams of seeing the world beyond the Maggie Valley, North Carolina, holler where she lives in poverty with her parents and eight brothers and sisters, but understands that...
- Author:Gutman, DanSummary:
Twins Coke and Pepsi resume their trip across America and land in Texas. Though their many enemies swear they're done chasing them, Coke and Pepsi start receiving more codes and ciphers from a mysterious robotic voice and know someone's...
- Author:COWLEY, JoySummary:
Flea, Pete and Libby think they're the luckiest kids on earth when the family goes sailing around the Marlborough Sounds for a year. Will their new life at sea be full of dolphins and great fishing or will cramped spaces,...
- Author:Suunders, GarySummary:
Free Wind Home carries the reader full circle through a childhood rooted in a sleepy Newfoundland outport with nineteenth century traditions, existing in a twentieth century world of war and uncertain politics. It is a visceral tale...