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2) Ghost moon
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Olivia Morrison, raised by her affluent stepfather on a lavish Louisiana estate, meets with both danger and love when she returns to her childhood home with her eight-year-old daughter after a disasterous marriage.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
As spring arrives on Gardam Street, there are surprises in store for each Penderwick, from neighbor Nick Geiger's expected return from the war to Batty's new dog-walking business, but her plans to use her profits to surprise her family on her eleventh birthday go astray.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Ernie, an overweight high school student and long-time target of bullies, relies on his best friend Will to watch his back until Will, overwhelmed by problems at home and guilt over his brother's death, seeks a final solution.
8) Infandous
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Lab
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Sephora, a surfer and artist who loves fairy tales and mythology, struggles with a secret so horrible she cannot speak it aloud, especially not to her beautiful, single mother, although they have always been unusually close.
10) My name is Mina
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Creative, intelligent, nine-year-old Mina keeps a journal in her own disorderly way that reveals how her mind is growing into something extraordinary, especially after she begins homeschooling under the direction of her widowed mother.
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Budding screenwriter Nate, sixteen, finds his conviction that happy endings do not happen in real life sorely tested when his childhood best friend and crush, Oliver James Hernandez, moves back to town.
14) Shine!
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
When seventh-grader Piper's father is hired by Chumley Prep, a school where every student seems to be the best at everything, she gets the chance to compete for the prestigious Excelsior Award.
15) Selling hope
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
In 1910, just before the Earth passes through the tail of Halley's Comet, thirteen-year-old Hope McDaniels, whose father is a magician in a traveling vaudeville show, tries to earn enough money to quit the circuit by selling "anti-comet pills," with the help of fellow-performer Buster Keaton.
16) Terrible Terrel
Author
Series
Sugar plum ballerinas volume 4
Publisher
Disney - Jump at the Sun Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Terrel Liu tries to sabotage her father's new relationship with the aunt of her ballet class nemesis.
17) Courage
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When his brother Lamont is released from prison early, T'Shawn puts all his emotions into diving practice, but as crime increases in the neighborhood, people begin to suspect Lamont, and T'Shawn must learn to trust his brother.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Shelby Cooper, nearly eighteen, has been overprotected by her single mother all her life but after a car accident, Shelby's mother steals her away from the hospital, revealing that Shelby's father is not dead, but rather a violent man who promised to hunt them down.
19) The line tender
Author
Publisher
Dutton Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Following a tragedy that further alters the course of her life, twelve-year-old Lucy Everhart decides to continue the shark research her marine biologist mother left unfinished when she died years earlier"--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
After enduring his father's suicide, his own suicide attempt, broken friendships, and more in the Bronx projects, Aaron Soto, sixteen, is already considering the Leteo Institute's memory-alteration procedure when his new friendship with Thomas turns to unrequited love.
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