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Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Publication Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
At Walter's World of Beauty, Luisa's secret plans are underway to create a very special birthday celebration for her hard-working, single mother who is employed there as a stylist.
Author
Publisher
Disney Press
Publication Date
2021.
Physical Desc
123 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (colour) ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"Christmas on repeat! Twelve-year-old Rowena Clybourne loves Christmas and all her favorite holiday traditions. But when this year's celebration doesn't deliver on the magic of the season, Ro makes a wish with a "fake" Santa for a Christmas do-over. Suddenly, Ro finds herself reliving Christmas Day over and over again. With each new version, Ro discover what makes this most wonderful time of the year truly merry and bright."-- Provided by publisher....
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Publication Date
2020.
Physical Desc
240 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When her older brother is arrested on her eleventh birthday, Bean Wright is devastated, and determined to raise the bail money that their mother does not have; the most promising scheme she comes up with is getting a young girl named Phoebe, one of the summer residents, to sell her valuable Mastiff guard dog, Honey--but the scheme takes a dark turn when the buyer turns out to want Honey for dog fighting.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fifth-grader Cally Louise Fisher stops talking, partly because her father and brother never speak of her mother who died a year earlier, but visions of her mother, friendships with a homeless man and a disabled boy, and a huge dog ensure that she still communicates.
Author
Publication Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
Working for her mom's cleaning business isn't Rachel's idea of a fun weekend, but has to pay back some money "borrowed" from her college fund. She's already considered a loser, and cleaning the toilets of the popular kids won't help. However, she learns that being a maid to the popular kids has it's advantages, and she soon fills her diary with all the dirt on the 8th grade in-crowd. When her crush offers to pay her to spy on his girlfriend, she'll...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Publication Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Six-year-old Daisy loves traveling the world with her father, a famous entertainer, and her teacher, Mrs. Minniear, but is lonely until her father brings home Josephine, a French bulldog that speaks and has great fashion sense.
10) Donuthead
Author
Language
English
Description
Franklin Delano Donuthead, a fifth-grader obsessed with hygiene and safety, finds an unlikely friend and protector in Sarah Kervick, the tough new student who lives in a dirty trailer, bonds with his mother, and is as "irregular" as he is.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Publication Date
[2025]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A family tree assignment troubles a girl with a single mom and no ties with relatives, until she realizes she has a found family in her neighbors"-- Provided by publisher.
12) Triple threat
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Publication Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
242 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Alex Carlisle loves football almost as much as she loves her father but when she joins the Orville Middle School football team, not all of the boys, or parents, are pleased.
13) Return to sender
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Publication Date
2025.
Physical Desc
315 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Oliver discovers that the wish-granting mailbox in his new apartment may make his dreams come true, but they come with a cost.
15) The Originals
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Publication Date
2013
Physical Desc
298 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-olds Lizzie, Ella, and Betsy Best are clones, raised as identical triplets by their surrogate mother but living as her one daughter, Elizabeth, until their separate abilities and a romantic relationship force a change.
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Publication Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
253 pages : map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When Ridge, a time-traveling teenager from the future, gets trapped in 1999, he befriends Michael, a lonely twelve-year-old boy, changing the course of their lives forever.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Publication Date
2015.
Physical Desc
246 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Exhausted and rebellious after three years of working for her father and mothering her brother, eighteen-year-old Arcadia "Cadie" Wells joins two cousins who are camping their way through Florida, soon learning that one's a murderer.
19) Reaching for sun
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Publication Date
c2007
Physical Desc
181 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Josie, who lives with her mother and grandmother and has cerebral palsy, befriends a boy who moves into one of the rich houses behind her old farmhouse.
20) The traitor game
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Publication Date
2008
Physical Desc
294 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Michael and his friend Francis both feel betrayed when someone at their private school learns of Evgard, a secret fantasy world they created together, but when a sadistic bully becomes involved in Michael's plan for revenge, the boys and Evgard itself face grave danger.








