Pan Harris is is brash, loud and damaged. Ordered into foster care, Pan is full of anger at the mother who abandoned her, and the older sister who kept her from her father. Pan is certain that she knows the reality of her past until she...
Girls
- Author:Lawson, SueSummary:
- Author:Mukasonga, ScholastiqueSummary:
Parents send their daughters to Our Lady of the Nile to be molded into respectable citizens and to escape the dangers of the outside world. Fifteen years prior to the 1994 Rwandan genocide, we watch as these girls try on their parents...
- Author:Hashimi, NadiaSummary:
Perfect for fans of Rita Williams-Garcia, Thanhha Lai, and Rebecca Stead, internationally bestselling author Nadia Hashimi's first novel for young readers is a coming-of-age journey set in modern-day Afghanistan that explores life...
- Author:Strube, CordeliaSummary:
Harriet is 11 going on 30. Her mixed-media art is a source of wonder to her younger brother, Irwin, but an unmitigated horror to the panoply of insufficiently grown-up grown-ups who surround her. She plans to run away to Algonquin Park...
- Author:Strube, CordeliaSummary:
From the acclaimed author of Lemon comes a clever and heartbreaking new novel of love and revelation
Harriet is 11 going on 30. Her mixed-media art is a source of wonder to her younger brother, Irwin, but an unmitigated...
- Author:Burns, AnnaSummary:
A darkly humorous, poignant debut novel chronicles the life and times of Amelia, a young woman growing up in a crazy family amid the violence and devastation of a Belfast during the Troubles.
- Author:Tripp, ValerieSummary:
Meet Molly McIntire, a lively nine-year old growing up during World War II. Although the fighting is happening far away, the war changes Molly's life on the home front too. Every morning Mom goes off to work at the Red Cross...
- Author:Lavoie, Marie-Renee, Grady, WayneSummary:
Helen, alias "Joe," would rather be a boy and have all kinds of adventures like Lady Oscar, her favourite cartoon heroine. She daydreams about living in another time and achieving great things, but she must be content delivering...
- Author:Raven, Margot TheisSummary:
The true story of a young German girl, Mercedes Simon, and of the American pilot, Gail Halvorsen, who shared hope and joy with the children of West Berlin by dropping candy-filled parachutes during the Airlift.
- Author:Dahl, RoaldSummary:
"The Trunchbull" is no match for Matilda!Matilda is a sweet, exceptional young girl, but her parents think she's just a nuisance. She expects school to be different but there she has to face Miss Trunchbull, a kid-hating...
- Author:Williamson, LisaSummary:
Before Malala Yousafzai became the youngest Nobel Prize laureate, she was a girl fighting for her education in Pakistan. Growing up, Malala's father encouraged her to be politically active and speak out about her educational rights...
- Author:ALDEN, IsabellaSummary:
Little Mag Jessup is an orphan girl who works hard as a servant in Mrs. Perkins' boarding house to earn her keep. She has no education, except what she has picked up on her own. Her future looks unchanging until she is given, on a...
- Author:Tamaki, MarikoSummary:
Welcome to Miss Qiunzella Thiskwin Penniquiqul Thistle Crumpet's Camp for Hardcore Lady Types. The five scouts of Roanoke cabin "Jo, April, Molly, Mal, and Ripley "love their summers at camp. They get to hang out with their best friends...
- Author:Hite, AnnSummary:
A haunting historical novella, Lowcountry Spirit tells the story of three slave girls with mystical powers living on an eerie island off the coast of Georgia. Their lives intertwine when Liza, in possession of a book of conjures for...
- Author:Bassoff, Leah, DeLuca, LauraSummary:
For Poni, life in her small village in southern Sudan is simple and complicated at the same time. Stay in school. Beat up any boy who tries to show attention. Watch out for the dangers in the river.But then the war comes. And when...
- Author:Nabokov, VladimirSummary:
When it was published in 1955, Lolita immediately became a cause célèbre because of the freedom and sophistication with which it handled the unusual erotic predilections of its protagonist. But Vladimir Nabokov's wise, ironic, elegant...
- Author:Richardson, BillSummary:
Awarding-winning author Bill Richardson and illustrator Bill Pechet team up again with Lola Flies Alone, a delightful story about a young airline passenger who has even more imagination than she has style-and she has plenty of that....
- Author:Riley, JillEllyn, Kay, Katty, Shipman, ClaireSummary:
From Bali to Brazil, South Africa to Seattle, Australia to Afghanistan, these girls took risks, doubted themselves, and sometimes failed. But they also hung in there when things got hard. Along the way they discovered what matters to...
- Author:Demers, JulieSummary:
A little girl with a beard must find herself a home in this contemporary fairy tale. It's 1944, and an eleven-year-old girl lives with her parents in a little village in rural Quebec. Her mother is very sad, and her father has vanished...
- Author:Godbout, YvanSummary:
Une fillette égarée dans un monde qu'elle ne reconnait pas. Un papa ours dissimulant peut-être l'horrible croquemitaine. Une maman ourse tourmentée cherchant à protéger ses petits. Un ourson prisonnier d'un...