New York Times bestselling adult author of The Bear and the Nightingale makes her middle grade debut with a creepy, spellbinding ghost story destined to become a classic. After suffering a tragic loss, eleven-year-old Ollie only...
Friendship
- Author:Arden, KatherineSummary:
- Author:Randle, Kristen D.Summary:
Three Mormon high school friends, perky Nikki, studious Alicia, and football player Sam, make a pact of the Pygmalion style -- they decide to help the "untapped" students at their school. Their plan is to transform three classmates and...
- Author:Foon, DennisSummary:
Four guys -- Tommy, Brad, Andy and Shane -- are all making their way through the jungle that is the last year of high school. Tommy, model student, is heading for the military to learn to fly fighter jets, something that will please his...
- Author:Choyce, LesleySummary:
Dorf has always lived by his personal motto: If it’s worth doing, do it. If it’s not worth doing, do it anyway. But now he’s in a new city, and the terrain has changed. He’s no longer free to skateboard where he wishes, school is hard,...
- Author:Paulsen, GarySummary:
From three-time Newbery Honor author Gary Paulsen comes a laugh-out-loud novella about six wacky misfits who get stuck together in a school restroom and discover friendship. It seemed like a normal school day, until a horrible storm...
- Author:Hilderbrand, ElinSummary:
Set against the backdrop of a Nantucket summer, this novel delivers a suspenseful story of the power of friendship, the pull of love, and the beauty of forgiveness.
- Author:Segura, AlexSummary:
Pete Fernandez is a mess, so he decides to move back to Miami and drink himself into oblivion. But when a coworker asks him to investigate a missing daughter, he finds himself in the heart of the underworld.
- Author:Han, JennySummary:
A twelve-year-old girl learns about friendship, first loves, and self-worth in a small town in the South.
- Author:Myracle, Lauren, Jenkins, Emily, Mlynowski, SarahSummary:
The Dunwiddle Magic School (fifth to eighth grade) is intended for children whose magic is "upside-down" like Dory (who turns into a combination of a kitten and dragon) and Pepper (whose uncontrollable "fiercing"...
- Author:Derrick, Alyson, Lippincott, RachaelSummary:
She's All That meets What If It's Us in this swoon-worthy hate-to-love YA romantic comedy from #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of Five Feet Apart Rachael Lippincott and debut writer Alyson Derrick. Alex Blackwood is a...
- Author:Salisbury, GrahamSummary:
Twelve-year-old Mokes is torn between obeying his father, the police chief in the small town of Kailua, Hawaii, and being with his friends who plan to go see a fight between an island boy and a sailor.
- Author:Grescoe, TarasSummary:
Emily 'Mickey' Hahn was a legendary New Yorker journalist whose vivid writing played a crucial role in opening Western eyes to the realities of life in China. At the height of the Depression, Hahn arrived in Shanghai after a...
- Author:Harlow, Joan HiattSummary:
In 1942, fourteen-year-old Jill goes to stay with her grandmother on the coast of Maine, where she is introduced to the often gossipy nature of small-town life, and discovers that the war is closer than she thought.
- Author:Brouwer, SigmundSummary:
Every Saturday Jim, Mickey and Lisa battle in paintball wars held in the city’s storm-drain system. The new kid, Carter, wants to join their club, the Sewer Rats. Lisa doesn’t want him in the club. She devises risky tests for him and...
- Author:Clark, TrevorSummary:
"Seven Floors Down follows the lives of Ryder and Kendall through bouts of homicide and homelessness, beginning when Ryder gets out of jail and crashes with his alcoholic friend who, on the verge of being evicted, remains...
- Author:Quintana, ChristineSummary:
A new year of high school is full of excitement and potential—but three teens didn't expect it to bring such a dark change to their lives. After spending a summer reinventing herself in Paris, Emma is ready for her new life to start,...
- Author:Perkins, Lynne Rae.Summary:
From Newbery Medalist Lynne Rae Perkins, this effervescent story introduces two sisters-Alix and Jools-and takes readers on an unforgettable journey to the beach. In the style of the author's acclaimed Nuts to You, this is a joyful...
- Author:Guest, JacquelineSummary:
The Depression has ruined Henry Dafoe's life: his father has left the family farm to look for work, his mother is sick and now she's decided to send Henry to Nova Scotia to work on his uncle's fishboat. But Henry has other ideas. He...
- Author:McGregor, RaymondSummary:
Although evil terror nearly brought Uthgar to his demise, Owen was able to save his friend from death, reconcile with his long-lost sister Elsa and free the town from the Evil King. With his family reunited and Uthgar's health...
- Author:Burnett, Frances HodgsonSummary:
Ten-year-old Mary comes to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors and discovers an invalid cousin and the mysteries of a locked garden.