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100万回生きたねこ | Yoko Sano | This is the original Japanese edition of a well known picture book that tells the "tail" of a cat who...lived a million times. A touching portrait of one cat's lives and deaths, owners and lovers.An arrogant cat is reincarnated many times to many loving owners, but he cannot reciprocate until he learns to love another ... | Childrens,Asian Literature,Fiction,Cultural,Sequential Art,Animals | 1977-10-20 | 2212982 | |
I Can See You | Damien Graves | Damien Graves has spent many years searching for the most spine-chilling stories in existence. Here are three more of his most terrible tales.Michael thinks there's no harm in playing outside after nightfall. He is gravely mistaken.Jake and Brandon are identical twins. They might be identically doomed.Carrie receives a... | Horror,Childrens,Short Stories | 2007-11-01 | 1247137 | |
A Little Love Song | Michelle Magorian | Rose, 17, and her older sisters have been evacuated from wartime London to a sea side village. In addition to getting along with out adults or servants, they grow to accept and appreciate one another and the `ordinary' people around them. Rose's friendship with an unwed mother, her observation of her sisters' romances,... | Historical,Young Adult,Romance,Fiction,War,European Literature,Childrens | 2011-05-23 | 33000382 | |
Light Weaver | Thomas Locke | After an accident in a snowstorm, eighteen-year-old Dan Simmons finds himself in a strange world where he must save the beautiful maiden Bliss with the help of the Light Weaver. | Fantasy,Christian,Fiction,Christian Fiction,Young Adult,Childrens,Science Fiction | 1994-05-23 | 1356027 | |
The Best Night of Your (Pathetic) Life | Tara Altebrando | An all-day scavenger hunt in the name of eternal small-town gloryWith only a week until graduation, there's one last thing Mary and her friends must do together: participate in the Oyster Point High Official Unofficial Senior Week Scavenger Hunt. And Mary is determined to win.Mary lost her spot at Georgetown to self-pr... | Young Adult,Contemporary,Realistic Fiction,Romance,Humor,Adventure,Travel | 2012-07-05 | 11737265 | |
The Christmas Tree that Ate My Mother | Dean Marney | A warm and humorous story of an eleven-year-old girl and a most unusual Christmas tree-- combining the author's inimitable wit and style with elements of Alice in Wonderland and The Chronicles of Narnia. A warm and humorous story of an eleven-year-old girl and a most unusual Christmas tree-- combining the author's inim... | Holiday,Fantasy,Fiction | 1992-10-01 | 325278 | |
Breathe | Anne-Sophie Brasme | Breathe is the haunting confession of nineteen-year-old Charlene Boher. From her prison cell, Charlene recounts her lonely adolescence. Growing up shy and unpopular, Charlene never had many friends. That is, until she meet Sarah, a beautiful and charismatic American-French girl who moved back to Paris for high school. ... | Fiction,Young Adult,Contemporary,Cultural,LGBT,Novels,Academic,Womens,Drama,European Literature | 2004-09-02 | 1504766 | |
Living in Secret | Cristina Salat | Ever since Amelia's parents got divorced, she has wished she could live with her mother and her mother's girlfriend, Janey, but a judge gave her father custody. Finally, after years of living apart, Amelia, and her mom decide there is only one thing to do. On a cold October night, Amelia's mother comes to steal her awa... | LGBT,Childrens,Young Adult | 1999-07-19 | 1921458 | |
False Memory | Dan Krokos | Miranda wakes up alone on a park bench with no memory. In her panic, she releases a mysterious energy that incites pure terror in everyone around her. Except Peter, a boy who isn’t at all surprised by Miranda’s shocking ability.Left with no choice but to trust this stranger, Miranda discovers she was trained to be a we... | Young Adult,Science Fiction,Fantasy,Romance,Mystery,Thriller,Action,Fiction | 2012-08-14 | 10194494 | |
The Chimes of Alyafaleyn | Grace Chetwin | Alyafaleyn is a world held in being by sound, vibration: music in the form of chiming golden spheres that appear each spring, floating on the winds. The people develop at puberty the ability to 'snag,' to draw the spheres to them purely with the mind, gradually amassing a cluster which bob about their heads. The really... | Fantasy,Young Adult | 2008-12-16 | 2941534 | |
Perfect Escape | Jennifer Brown | Kendra has always felt overshadowed by her older brother, Grayson, whose OCD forces him to live a life of carefully coordinated routines. The only way Kendra can stand out next to Grayson is to be perfect, and she has perfection down to an art -- until a cheating scandal threatens her flawless reputation. Behind the ... | Young Adult,Contemporary,Realistic Fiction,Travel,Health,Mental Health,Fiction,Family | 2012-07-10 | 12805941 | |
Demon in My View | Amelia Atwater-Rhodes | Though nobody at her high school knows it, Jessica is a published author. Her vampire novel, Tiger, Tiger, has just come out under the pen name Ash Night. Now two new students have just arrived in Ramsa, and both want Jessica’s attention. She has no patience with overly friendly Caryn, but she’s instantly drawn to Alex... | Paranormal,Young Adult,Fantasy,Romance,Horror,Fiction | 2001-09-11 | 30335 | |
Food, Girls, and Other Things I Can't Have | Allen Zadoff | What’s worse than being fat your freshman year? Being fat your sophomore year.Life used to be so simple for Andrew Zansky–hang with the Model UN guys, avoid gym class, and eat and eat and eat. He’s used to not fitting in: into his family, his sports-crazed school, or his size 48 pants. But not anymore. Andrew just met ... | Young Adult,Humor,Realistic Fiction,Fiction,Contemporary,Sports,Romance | 2009-09-08 | 5986471 | |
Princess for Hire | Lindsey Leavitt | When Desi Bascomb gets discovered by the elite Facade Agency–royalty surrogates extraordinaire–her life goes from glamour-starved to spectacular in a blink. As her new agent, Meredith, explains, Desi has a rare magical ability: when she applies the ancient Egyptian formula “Royal Rouge,” she can transform temporarily i... | Fantasy,Young Adult,Romance,Childrens,Womens Fiction,Fiction,Fairy Tales,Contemporary | 2010-03-16 | 6506483 | |
An Earthly Knight | Janet McNaughton | A cloud has descended over the household of Lady Jeanette Avenel. The year is 1162. Sixteen-year-old Jenny has always enjoyed her freedom as second daughter of a Norman nobleman in Teviotdale, Scotland. But when Jenny's sister, Isabel, disgraces the family by running away with a dangerous suitor, Jenny is thrust reluct... | Fantasy,Young Adult,Historical,Romance,Fiction,Retellings,Cultural | 2005-02-15 | 711003 | |
Fortune's Magic Farm | Suzanne Selfors | This story takes place in the dark, dank village of Runny Cove. There, orphan Isabelle works her fingers to the bone at the Magnificently Supreme Umbrella Factory, struggling to support herself and her Grandma Maxine. That is, until Isabelle discovers that she has inherited Fortune's Farm, the last place on earth where... | Fantasy,Childrens,Adventure,Fiction,Science Fiction Fantasy,Young Adult | 2009-03-01 | 3933510 | |
Stay with Me | Paul Griffin | An urban romance that will capture your soul, break your heart, and restore your faith in the human spiritFifteen-year-olds Cece and Mack didn't expect to fall in love. She's a sensitive A student; he's a high school dropout. But soon they're spending every moment together, bonding over a rescued dog, telling their sec... | Young Adult,Romance,Realistic Fiction,Contemporary,Fiction,Animals,Mystery,Love | 2011-09-08 | 9754807 | |
Kingdom of Ash and Briars | Hannah West | Bristal, an orphaned kitchen maid, lands in a gritty fairy tale gone wrong when she discovers she is an elicromancer with a knack for shape-shifting. An ancient breed of immortal magic beings, elicromancers have been winnowed down to merely two - now three - after centuries of bloody conflict in the realm. Their gifts ... | Fantasy,Young Adult,Retellings,Romance,Fiction,Fairy Tales | 2016-09-15 | 28554825 | |
Because You'll Never Meet Me | Leah Thomas | Ollie and Moritz are best friends, but they can never meet. Ollie is allergic to electricity. Contact with it causes debilitating seizures. Moritz’s weak heart is kept pumping by an electronic pacemaker. If they ever did meet, Ollie would seize. But Moritz would die without his pacemaker. Both hermits from society, the... | Young Adult,Contemporary,LGBT,Fiction,Science Fiction,Fantasy,Realistic Fiction,Romance,Disability | 2015-07-02 | 20649195 | |
The Lost Girl | Sangu Mandanna | Eva’s life is not her own. She is a creation, an abomination—an echo. Made by the Weavers as a copy of someone else, she is expected to replace a girl named Amarra, her “other”, if she ever died. Eva studies what Amarra does, what she eats, what it’s like to kiss her boyfriend, Ray. So when Amarra is killed in a car cr... | Young Adult,Science Fiction,Fantasy,Romance,Fiction,Contemporary,Cultural,Adventure | 2012-08-28 | 13062488 | |
In a Split Second | Sophie McKenzie | 2:02...2:01...2:00What the hell was this? I stared at the numbers, numb with horror. The box was a bomb. And it was going to go off in two minutes.Charlie's life is torn apart by a terrorist bomb in a London market. Months later she meets Nat, whose family has been left devastated by the same explosion. But as Charlie ... | Young Adult,Thriller,Romance,Science Fiction,Mystery,Contemporary,Suspense,War | 2015-03-10 | 23121717 | |
Into the Dim | Janet B. Taylor | When fragile, sixteen-year-old Hope Walton loses her mom to an earthquake overseas, her secluded world crumbles. Agreeing to spend the summer in Scotland, Hope discovers that her mother was more than a brilliant academic, but also a member of a secret society of time travelers. Trapped in the twelfth century in the age... | Young Adult,Science Fiction,Fantasy,Historical,Romance,Fiction,Adventure | 2016-03-01 | 25897792 | |
Coram Boy | Jamila Gavin | Eighteenth-century England is the setting for Jamila Gavin's sweeping saga of growing-up, struggle, tradition and corruption. From an acorn of an idea about a real-life good Samaritan of yesteryear, the author has crafted a satisfying, if occasionally painful, novel that spans the lives of several fortunate and unfortu... | Historical,Young Adult,Fiction,Novels,Childrens,Academic,Adventure,Family,European Literature | 2000-05-23 | 1072093 | |
The Stonekeeper | Kazu Kibuishi | Graphic novel star Kazu Kibuishi creates a world of terrible, man-eating demons, a mechanical rabbit, a giant robot---and two ordinary children on a life-or-death mission.After the tragic death of their father, Emily and Navin move with their mother to the home of her deceased great-grandfather, but the strange house p... | Sequential Art,Fantasy,Childrens,Adventure,Fiction,Young Adult,Graphic Novels Comics | 2015-09-29 | 1238684 | |
Top Banana | Cari Best | Benny the parrot, an amazing bird with the ability to read, has everything a bird could want, until he has to share his owner's attention with a rare flower. Benny the parrot, an amazing bird with the ability to read, has everything a bird could want, until he has to share his owner's attention with a rare flower. ...m... | 1997-03-01 | 8263775 | ||
The Girl from the Other Side: Siúil, A Rún, Vol. 1 | Nagabe | Once upon a time...In a land far away, there were two kingdoms: the Outside, where twisted beasts roamed that could curse with a touch, and the Inside, where humans lived in safety and peace. The girl and the beast should never have met, but when they do, a quiet fairytale begins. This is a story of two people--one hum... | Sequential Art,Fantasy,Horror,Fiction,Young Adult,Graphic Novels Comics,Mystery,Graphic Novels Manga | 2017-01-24 | 30139736 | |
Belle's Journey | Marilynn Reynolds | Belle is too old and stiff to pull the ploughs or the wagons anymore. In fact, Molly's horse barely earns her keep by carrying the young girl to piano lessons once a week. When Father wonders if they should get rid of Belle, Molly is delighted at the thought of prancing and galloping on a beautiful new pony. But one wi... | Childrens,Cultural | 1993-01-01 | 1321423 | |
Mystery at the Jellybean Factory (Troll Easy-to-Read Mystery) | Francene Sabin | Hoping to join their club, Jane tells the Maple Street Six she has witnessed a robbery, but because it is April Fools' Day, she is not believed. Hoping to join their club, Jane tells the Maple Street Six she has witnessed a robbery, but because it is April Fools' Day, she is not believed. ...more | 1982-01-01 | 5168138 | ||
For Love of Jody | Robbie Branscum | In the Arkansas hills during a calamity-filled summer of the Depression and Ma's third pregnancy, 12-year-old Frankie overcomes her bitterness toward her mother and jealousy over her younger, mentally retarded sister. In the Arkansas hills during a calamity-filled summer of the Depression and Ma's third pregnancy, 12-y... | 1979-01-01 | 2753574 | ||
Very Bad Things | Ilsa Madden-Mills | Born into a life of privilege and secrets, Nora Blakely has everything any nineteen-year-old girl could desire. She’s an accomplished pianist, a Texas beauty queen, and on her way to Princeton after high school. She’s perfect...Leaving behind her million-dollar mansion and Jimmy Choos, she becomes a girl hell-bent on p... | New Adult,Romance,Contemporary,Young Adult,Sociology,Academic,Dark,Womens Fiction | 2013-09-09 | 17836829 | |
Fledgling | Mark A. Cooper | Tormented by his mother's death... Taken for granted by his father... Trained in deadly martial arts...Jason Steed is looking for a place to call home. He finds what he's looking for in the Sea Cadets-an elite group of British youngsters being groomed for lifelong service in the military. But when a routine training ex... | Young Adult,Adventure,Mystery,Spy Thriller,Fiction,Action,Thriller,Fantasy,War | 2010-09-01 | 19823765 | |
That's Not a Feeling | Dan Josefson | Benjamin arrives with his parents for a tour of Roaring Orchards, a therapeutic boarding school tucked away in upstate New York. Suddenly, his parents are gone and Benjamin learns that he is there to stay. Sixteen years old, a two-time failed suicide, Benjamin must navigate his way through a new world of morning meds, ... | Fiction,Realistic Fiction,Young Adult,Sequential Art,Adult Fiction,Psychology,Health,School Stories,Contemporary | 2012-10-02 | 13367236 | |
Zenda and the Gazing Ball | Ken Petti | I didn’t mean for things to happen this way. But they did. Now while everyone else moves forward, my entire life is on hold! Even worse, the magical gift that holds the key to my future is in jeopardy. I want to make everything right. But what if I can’t? So begins the adventure of twelve-year-old Zenda from Azureblue... | Fantasy,Childrens,Fiction | 2004-03-08 | 108075 | |
Stolen | Vivian Vande Velde | The same day that the villagers of Thornstowe finally hunt down a witch with a reputation for stealing children, a 12-year-old appears in the woods with no memory of her past. Is there a connection between Isabelle, the girl who doesn t know who she is, and the girl the witch stole six years earlier? One of the few thi... | Fantasy,Young Adult,Mystery,Fiction,Horror,Paranormal | 2008-10-01 | 2771426 | |
Celandine | Steve Augarde | Set seventy years before The Various, the second book in the trilogy follows the adventures of young Celandine at the onset of the First World War. Having run away from her detested boarding school, Celandine is too afraid to go home in case she is sent back. As she seeks shelter in the Wild Wood near her home, little ... | Fantasy,Fiction,Young Adult,Childrens,Adventure,Historical,Paranormal | 2006-08-22 | 680326 | |
Fat Chance | Margaret Clark | Can you become 'The Face' when you look like a pregnant rhinoceros? Lisa wants to know. Can you snatch a modelling contract when you're fourteen and a social outcast, with a mother who pumps donuts, hot dogs and chilli pancakes into you like there's no tomorrow? FAT CHANCE! Can you become 'The Face' when you look like ... | Young Adult,Romance,Childrens,Fiction,Contemporary | 1996-10-29 | 281277 | |
Top Secret | John Reynolds Gardiner | Fans of Jennifer Holm's The Fourteenth Goldfish will fall in love with this humorous story about one boy's school science project that goes terribly wrong. Perfect for STEM curricula. Despite the disapproval of his parents and his formidable science teacher, nine-year-old Allen is determined to do his school science pr... | Science Fiction,Childrens,Fiction,Young Adult,Fantasy,Mystery | 1995-10-01 | 239320 | |
Alis | Naomi Rich | At fourteen, Alis has never been outside her strict religious community. But when her parents arrange for her to marry a forty-year-old man, she flees desperately to the dangerous, unfamiliar city. She learns quickly that the only way to survive there is to become a thief?or worse. Facing an impossible choice between a... | Young Adult,Historical,Fantasy,Fiction,Religion,Romance,Family,Adult | 2009-02-19 | 4524798 | |
And This Is Laura | Ellen Conford | The twelve-year-old member of a family of overachievers wishes she were special in some way too. Then she discovers she possesses psychic ability. | Young Adult,Fiction,Childrens,Fantasy | 853612 | ||
Roxaboxen | Alice McLerran | From two-time Caldecott Medal-winning illustrator Barbara Cooney and celebrated children’s book author Alice McLerran comes Roxaboxen, a treasured story about the magic of a child’s imagination. Marian called it Roxaboxen. There across the road, it looked like any rocky hill—nothing but sand and rocks, and some old woo... | Childrens,Fiction,Historical,Academic,Realistic Fiction,Kids,Adventure,Classics | 2004-04-13 | 334809 | |
Other | Karen Kincy | Shapeshifting can be a beautiful and deadly secret. Gwen craves the forbidden rush of leaping from her bedroom window and transforming into an owl, but she could lose it all if anyone caught her. Most Americans don’t exactly roll out the welcome mat for Others. In the small town of Klikamuks, Washington, coming out as ... | Young Adult,Fantasy,Shapeshifters,Paranormal,Romance | 2017-05-23 | 33597058 | |
Eating Between the Lines | Kevin Major | Set in Newfoundland, Eating Between the Lines, is the story of Jackson, an adolescent, plagued with some very adolescent problems at home and at school. His parents' marriage seems to have reached a low point, and he is infatuated with Sarah, a new girl at school who isn't taking him too seriously. Other broader soci... | 1995-04-01 | 1321225 | ||
Death at Their Heels | Margaret Goff Clark | When his older stepbrother takes him on a camping trip to Algonquin Park in Canada, Denny is unaware they are fleeing from a murderer. | 1975-01-01 | 1879368 | ||
The Farmer and the Moon | Anneliese Lussert | A prosperous farmer's cruel joke on a poor neighbor backfires so that each gets what he richly deserves. A prosperous farmer's cruel joke on a poor neighbor backfires so that each gets what he richly deserves. ...more | 1987-05-23 | 6476617 | ||
Snoggle | J.B. Priestley | A children's book. Three English children befriend a strange creature from outer space and try to protect it from the aroused community. A children's book. Three English children befriend a strange creature from outer space and try to protect it from the aroused community. ...more | 1971-05-23 | 5956402 | ||
Ghost Train to Nowhere | Phil Roxbee Cox | -- Spooky stories filled with devious clues keep the reader guessing-- Thrilling mysteries unravel as each tale unfolds | 1992-09-01 | 987151 | ||
Molly and the Great American Family | Cynthia Blair | Molly loves her four sisters and parents, but there's no doubt they are different from everyone else's family. Yet when her mother goes to Japan for three months, Molly has to take charge of her sisters -- and her father, the original absentminded professor. Now, just as everything goes even crazier than usual, Molly m... | 1994-10-01 | 1975657 | ||
Lab 6 | Peter Lerangis | Sam's parents are trying to extract his twin -- who's still inside Sam's body. Sam's parents are trying to extract his twin -- who's still inside Sam's body. ...more | Science Fiction,Fiction,Childrens,Fantasy,Mystery | 1999-10-01 | 1420038 | |
The Hunter's Moon | O.R. Melling | Canadian Gwen and her Irish cousin, Findabhair, have long planned a summer of backpacking around Ireland, visiting sites out of the old legends of fairy folk. Little do they know that it is the summer of the Hunter's Moon, a dangerous time for mortals who meddle with the kingdom of Faerie. One night, camping out on old... | Fantasy,Young Adult,Paranormal,Fairies,Fiction,Cultural,Romance | 2006-05-01 | 398479 | |
The Twinning Project | Robert Lipsyte | Tom is a smart, talented loner with a chip on his shoulder and a big secret: an imaginary twin on another planet. Eddie is Tom's opposite, a friendly, athletic kid who always looks on the good side. Tom worries sometimes: does confiding in Eddie mean he's nuts? The truth is even crazier than that. Eddie and his planet ... | Science Fiction,Adventure,Fiction,Action,Mystery,Childrens | 2012-10-23 | 13429617 | |
Land of the Iron Dragon | Alida E. Young | A 14-year-old Chinese boy is left without a family in the United States and joins the crews building the transcontinental railroad in the 1860's. A 14-year-old Chinese boy is left without a family in the United States and joins the crews building the transcontinental railroad in the 1860's. ...more | 1978-01-01 | 243852 | ||
Terrier | Tamora Pierce | Hundreds of years before Alanna first drew her sword in Tamora Pierce's memorable debut, Alanna: The First Adventure, Tortall had a heroine named Beka Cooper - a fierce young woman who fights crime in a world of magic. This is the beginning of her story, her legend, and her legacy....Beka Cooper is a rookie with the la... | Fantasy,Young Adult,Fiction,Mystery,Adventure,Science Fiction Fantasy | 2006-10-24 | 13829 | |
Orange | Benjamin (ZHANG Bin 本杰明) | Orange chafes at her parents' callousness, the banality of her girlfriends' ambitions, and the pressures of school. Orange's feelings vacillate between rage and emptiness--until she meets Dashu, whose mysterious presence just might give her something to live for. Orange chafes at her parents' callousness, the banality ... | Sequential Art,Young Adult,Art,Fiction,Graphic Novels Comics,Cultural,Mental Health | 2009-02-01 | 6076524 | |
The Way Back Home | Allan Stratton | Zoe Bird is going nowhere fast. She’s angry and lonely, and her only true friend is her granny, whose Alzheimer’s is worsening. When her parents put Granny in a home, Zoe decides now is the time to break free. She smuggles Granny out and together they hit the tracks on a cross-country trip to find Zoe’s long-lost uncle... | Young Adult,Contemporary,Family,Fiction,LGBT,Health,Adventure,Childrens,Academic,Realistic Fiction | 2017-05-04 | 31348272 | |
The Shredder | Shoo Rayner | Rex and Franky get a visit from Simon - a scared and desperate snake - and they learn all about a mysterious affliction, known as Soft Shed Syndrome. But is SSS really a natural phenomenon, or could the snakes be the victims of the one they call "The Shredder". Rex and Franky get a visit from Simon - a scared and despe... | 1999-03-18 | 53139914 | ||
Truthwitch | Susan Dennard | Librarian note: Older cover of B00Z5Z5NNO.In a continent on the edge of war, two witches hold its fate in their hands.Young witches Safiya and Iseult have a habit of finding trouble. After clashing with a powerful Guildmaster and his ruthless Bloodwitch bodyguard, the friends are forced to flee their home.Safi must avo... | Fantasy,Young Adult,Paranormal,Romance,Fiction,Adventure | 2016-01-05 | 21414439 | |
3:59 | Gretchen McNeil | Josie Byrne's life is spiraling out of control. Her parents are divorcing, her boyfriend Nick has grown distant, and her physics teacher has it in for her. When she's betrayed by the two people she trusts most, Josie thinks things can't get worse.Until she starts having dreams about a girl named Jo. Every night at the ... | Young Adult,Science Fiction,Fantasy,Romance,Horror,Thriller,Mystery,Fiction | 2013-09-17 | 15836516 | |
Masters of Glass | M. Coleman Easton | A tired old man and a brash young girl...he was the Vigen of Darst and she is his apprentice, Kyala, the first female ever chosen to learn the magic power of glassmaking.Into the mountains of Winterkill they went, seeking the rare pigment astablak to protect the people of Darst from the ravening Lame Ones, who stalked ... | Fantasy,Fiction | 1985-04-04 | 2158416 | |
Chilling Ghost Stories | Bernhardt J. Hurwood | Ghosts are abroad! Things walk in the night! Here are sixteen shivery, quivery stories to haunt the dark hours - famous stories unchallenged for sheer spookiness. These are stories that dare you to put them down unread. Stories included: The House That Didn't Want Anyone to Live In It, What the Gravedigger Saw, The Pir... | Horror,Fiction,Short Stories | 1973-05-23 | 1523047 | |
The Man in the Long Black Cape | Patience Zawadsky | "A ghost!" Jim's granfather gasps. But what kind of "ghost" would beat an old man unconscious? Who is this dangerious attacker in the black cape? What does he want from Jim's family?Jim tries to find out, but now the "ghost" is lying in wait for him...! "A ghost!" Jim's granfather gasps. But what kind of "ghost" would ... | 1972-05-23 | 13580211 | ||
Tatiana Comes To America: An Ellis Island Story | Joan Holub | Sisters Lila and Rose, ages 8 and 10, are spending the year with their eccentric grandmother (who runs a doll hospital) while their parents are working out of the country. The girls are not pleased with this arrangement, but they begin to enjoy themselves when they learn that their grandmother has a special power to "r... | Historical,Childrens,Fiction,Magical Realism | 2003-05-01 | 151588 | |
The Great Good Thing | Roderick Townley | Sylvie had an amazing life, but she didn't get to live it very often.Sylvie has been a twelve-year-old princess for more than eighty years, ever since the book she lives in was first printed. She's the heroine, and her story is exciting -- but that's the trouble. Her story is always exciting in the same way. Sylvie lon... | Fantasy,Fiction,Young Adult,Childrens,Adventure,Writing,Science Fiction Fantasy | 2003-09-01 | 4117 | |
Monstrous | MarcyKate Connolly | The city of Bryre suffers under the magic of an evil wizard. Because of his curse, girls sicken and disappear without a trace, and Bryre’s inhabitants live in fear. No one is allowed outside after dark. Yet night is the only time that Kymera can enter this dangerous city, for she must not be seen by humans. Her father ... | Fantasy,Childrens,Young Adult,Fiction,Retellings,Adventure | 2015-02-10 | 16181516 | |
The Boy on Cinnamon Street | Phoebe Stone | A story about a wounded girl and the boy who won't give up on her.7th grader Louise should be the captain of her school's gymnastics team - but she isn't. She's fun and cute and should have lots of friends - but she doesn't. And there's a dreamy boy who has a crush on her - but somehow they never connect. Louise has ev... | Realistic Fiction,Young Adult,Romance,Childrens,Contemporary,Fiction,Womens Fiction,Family | 2012-02-01 | 11962848 | |
Nezbah's Lamb | Edith J. Agnew | A Navajo girl on a reservation learns the value of the school nurse when a cut on her lamb's ear is healed. A Navajo girl on a reservation learns the value of the school nurse when a cut on her lamb's ear is healed. ...more | 1954-05-23 | 54108622 | ||
Strange Forces | Marty M. Engle | The students of Fairfield Junior High have noticed that the strange things happening in their town are becoming more common — more dangerous. With each dreadful encounter, they are further convinced — monsters are real.Morgan Taylor is convinced. He couldn't deny that a small lizard-like monster was rapping on his bedr... | Fiction,Young Adult,Fantasy,Childrens | 1996-05-23 | 64192 | |
Backstage Pass | Gaby Triana | Gaby Triana's first novel about Desert McGraw, a famous rock star's daughter who wants nothing more than to lead a perfectly annonymous life.In this hip debut novel, rising star Gaby Triana uses her immensely accessible voice and humor to paint a mesmerizing picture of a life not quite in the spotlight–but not quite ou... | Young Adult,Romance,Fiction,Womens Fiction,Music,Novels | 2005-06-14 | 307315 | |
Venom | Fiona Paul | Cassandra Caravello is one of Renaissance Venice’s lucky elite: with elegant gowns, sparkling jewels, her own lady’s maid, and a wealthy fiancé, she has everything a girl could desire. Yet ever since her parents’ death, Cassandra has felt trapped, alone in a city of water, where the dark and labyrinthine canals whisper... | Historical,Young Adult,Mystery,Romance,Fantasy,Thriller,Fiction | 2012-10-30 | 9999795 | |
Cricket Goes to the Dogs | Susan Meyers | Ten-year-old Cricket finds a way to raise money for the Always Friends Club by providing a dog washing service. | Childrens | 1995-06-07 | 1937154 | |
The Mystery of the Cupboard | Lynne Reid Banks | In the fourth book in Bank's acclaimed INDIAN IN THE CUPBOARD saga, Omri and his family move to an old farmhouse, where he finds an ancient notebook that reveals a family secret-and the mysterious origins of his magical cupboard. In the fourth book in Bank's acclaimed INDIAN IN THE CUPBOARD saga, Omri and his family mo... | Fantasy,Fiction,Childrens,Young Adult,Adventure,Science Fiction,Historical,Mystery,Classics | 1993-12-23 | 125411 | |
The Goodbye Season | Marian Hale | A courageous young woman comes of age in the midst of an historical tragedy, from the author of Dark Water Rising.Mercy Kaplan doesn't want to be like her mother, saddled with crying kids and failing crops for the rest of her life. Mercy longs to be on her own—until her wish comes true in the worst possible way. It is ... | Historical,Young Adult,Fiction,Mystery,Relationships,Family | 2009-10-13 | 6320464 | |
Tall and Proud | Vian Smith | Gail Fleming catches polio, and is left unable to walk. | Animals,Young Adult,Childrens,Fiction | 1968-12-28 | 1444606 | |
The Sky Inside | Clare B. Dunkle | Martin lives in a perfect world.Every year a new generation of genetically-engineered children is shipped out to meet their parents. Every spring the residents of his town take down the snow they've stuck to their windows and put up flowers. Every morning his family gathers around their television and votes, like every... | Science Fiction,Young Adult,Fiction,Adventure,Fantasy,Childrens,Futuristic | 2008-03-25 | 1971504 | |
The Kill | L.J. Smith | The bestselling author of The Vampire Diaries now completes her terrifying romantic horror trilogy. Before disappearing into the Shadow World, Julian takes Jenny Thornton's boyfriend and cousin. To get them back, she must go on a treasure hunt. To lose means paying the devil himself. Consumer sweepstakes. The bestselli... | Young Adult,Fantasy,Horror,Romance,Fiction | 1994-07-01 | 333670 | |
No Scarlet Ribbons | Susan Terris | Finding life disappointingly ordinary after her mother remarries, 13-year-old Rachel tries to impose her view of family life on her step relatives. | 1983-02-28 | 1631138 | ||
The Fabulous Fifty | Morton Grosser | In the summer of 1921, fourteen-year-old Sol seeks independence from his family and his South Philadelphia neighborhood and joins his pals in their obsessive scheme to get to the World Series by clipping newspaper coupons. | 1990-10-01 | 2496537 | ||
Just as Long as We're Together | Judy Blume | Rachel is Stephanie's best friend. Since second grade, they've shared secrets, good and bad. Now in seventh grade, Alison moves into the neighborhood. Stephanie hopes all three of them can be best friends, because Stephanie really likes Alison. But it looks as if it's going to be a case of two's company and three's a c... | Young Adult,Fiction,Childrens,Realistic Fiction,Contemporary,Novels | 2001-04-09 | 37731 | |
A Crack in the Sky | Mark Peter Hughes | Thirteen-year-old Eli Papadopoulos is worried. Even though he’s a member of the most powerful family in the world. Even though his grandfather founded InfiniCorp, the massive corporation that runs everything in the bustling dome-cities. Even though InfiniCorp ads and billboards are plastered everywhere, proclaiming: DO... | Science Fiction,Young Adult,Fiction,Adventure,Childrens,Fantasy,Apocalyptic,Mystery | 2010-08-24 | 7327258 | |
Box Top Dreams | Miriam Glassman | Ari and Danny have been inseparable friends and neighbors, living in their own world of magic kits, movies, and mythical games. When he moves away, she's left to face Marina, Queen of the fifth grade. Standing up to Marina shows Ari that she's spunkier than she ever suspected, and that she can create her own magic with... | Childrens | 1998-01-12 | 4365725 | |
Now That I've Found You | Rex Harley | What is a boy to make of a girl trapped in a time-warp, behaving as though she forgot to move on from the 20th century into this one? What is so bad about the here and now that she can't face it? What is a boy to make of a girl trapped in a time-warp, behaving as though she forgot to move on from the 20th century into ... | 2003-11-01 | 3121274 | ||
Jericho Walls | Kristi Collier | A beautifully written story about the power of friendship in the face of racismJo Clawson isn't the boy her father wanted, and she's not the young "lady" her neighbors expect of the preacher's daughter, either. But even though Jo doesn't always meet the expectations of the people around her, she still longs to fit in. ... | Young Adult,Historical,Cultural,Relationships | 2007-03-06 | 2225683 | |
Stolen | Lucy Christopher | It happened like this. I was stolen from an airport. Taken from everything I knew, everything I was used to. Taken to sand and heat, dirt and danger. And he expected me to love him. This is my story. A letter from nowhere.Sixteen-year-old Gemma is kidnapped from Bangkok airport and taken to the Australian Outback. This... | Young Adult,Contemporary,Fiction,Romance,Realistic Fiction,Thriller,Mystery,Cultural,Dark | 2009-05-04 | 6408862 | |
The Nest | Paul Jennings | Sixteen-year-old Robin lives with his single father in the Victorian alps where they run a snowmobile hire business. Robin lives in fear of his bullying father and believes that it was his (Robin's) fault that his mother left them when he was a baby, which is why his father hates him and is the cause of all his problem... | Young Adult,Fiction,Realistic Fiction,Mystery,Family | 2010-03-01 | 7686277 | |
The Darkest Path | Jeff Hirsch | USA TODAY bestselling author Jeff Hirsch once again creates a futuristic world with stunning, dramatic realism.A civil war rages between the Glorious Path--a militant religion based on the teachings of a former US soldier--and what's left of the US government. Fifteen-year-old Callum Roe and his younger brother, James,... | Young Adult,Science Fiction,War,Fiction,Adventure,Apocalyptic | 2013-09-24 | 17381993 | |
Hacking Harvard | Robin Wasserman | It's the ultimate challenge: breaking into the Ivy League. The hack: To get one deadbeat, fully unqualified slacker into the most prestigious school in the country. The crew: Eric Roth -- the good guy, the voice of reason. Max Kim -- the player who made the bet in the first place. Schwartz -- the kid genius a... | Young Adult,Fiction,Realistic Fiction,Contemporary,Academic,Romance | 2007-09-11 | 1993945 | |
One on One | Tabitha King | A small-town school in western Maine, milltown Greenspark has a single claim to fame: its high school basketball team. A hero on the court, senior Sam Styles has led Greenspark Academy to three consecutive state championships. He has become an off-court mover-and-shaker as well, and he sends a shockwave through the sch... | Fiction,Young Adult,Contemporary,Romance,Novels,Sports,Drama,Realistic Fiction | 1994-04-01 | 490136 | |
Firebolt | Adrienne Woods | Dragons. Right. Teenage girls don’t believe in fairy tales, and sixteen-year old Elena Watkins was no different.Until the night a fairy tale killed her father.Now Elena’s in a new world, and a new school. The cutest guy around may be an evil dragon, a Prince wants Elena’s heart, and a long dead sorcerer may be waking u... | Fantasy,Young Adult,Romance,Fiction,Paranormal | 2014-09-19 | 33379357 | |
The Secret Journey | Peg Kehret | In 1834 when a storm at sea destroys the slave ship on which she is a stowaway, twelve-year-old Emma musters all her resourcefulness to survive in the African jungle. | Historical,Fiction,Adventure,Young Adult,Childrens,Cultural | 1999-12-01 | 439368 | |
On the Edge | Aidan Chambers | A collection of eight stories with a thriller theme written by Jan Mark, Robert Westall, Rex Harley, Vivien Alcock, Margaret Mahy, Brian Morse, Patricia Windsor and John Gordon. | 1991-12-06 | 11501773 | ||
The Whispering Road | Livi Michael | In true Victorian fashion, award-winning author Michael pens a gripping, epic novel about a sister and brother whose mother leaves them at a workhouse in Manchester, England. For Joe and Annie, the choice is escape or die. | Fantasy,Young Adult,Historical,Fiction,Childrens,Novels,Adventure,Magical Realism | 2005-05-19 | 1450670 | |
Dovey Coe | Frances O'Roark Dowell | My name is Dovey Coe and I reckon it don't matter if you like me or not. I'm here to lay the record straight, to let you know them folks saying I done a terrible thing are liars. I aim to prove it, too. I hated Parnell Caraway as much as the next person, but I didn't kill him. Dovey Coe says what's on her mind, so it'... | Mystery,Historical,Young Adult,Childrens,Fiction,Realistic Fiction | 2001-11-01 | 696526 | |
Donegal Fairy Stories | Seumas MacManus | Ten delightful original Irish fairy tales from County Donegal. Translated from the Irish language by Seumas MacManus and first printed in 1900, this new edition, published in County Donegal, Ireland, has modern language, punctuation and word usage, digitally enhanced original line drawings, and newly-commissioned, full... | 1968-05-23 | 2260146 | ||
Prove Yourself a Hero | K.M. Peyton | This novel about a kidnapping gives the reader insight into the behaviour of different people under stress - the victim, those who care about him, and those who are inflicting harm on him. | Young Adult,Fiction,Mystery,Childrens,Literature | 1988-08-02 | 4973399 | |
Starring Stephanie | Susan Saunders | Stephanie blows an audition for the lead in the school play and shy Patti gets the part. If Stephanie can't act in the school play, how will she ever be a video star? Stephanie blows an audition for the lead in the school play and shy Patti gets the part. If Stephanie can't act in the school play, how will she ever be ... | Childrens,Young Adult,Fiction | 1987-10-01 | 475374 | |
Who Can You Trust? | Lauren Day | Based on one of the most popular girls' interactive products to ever hit the market, this series delivers Rockett's frank and funny outlook on life as a new eighth-grader at Whistling Pines Junior High. Rockett's fans will enjoy exploring her world in thoughtful, fresh, fast-paced stories that capture the real-life con... | Fiction | 1999-08-01 | 1739003 | |
The Market | J.M. Steele | When Kate Winthrop stumbles upon the Millbank Social Stock Market (the MSSM), she's horrified to discover that out of the 140 girls in her class, she's ranked a bleak 71. Determined not to accept her fate as a "junk bond," she and her friends, Dev and Callie, set out to make her the fastest rising stock on the Market -... | Young Adult,Realistic Fiction,Romance,Fiction,Womens Fiction,Contemporary | 2008-04-01 | 2991507 | |
Earthsong | Victor Kelleher | The Earth of our distant future has become a strange and frightening place. Now, thousands of years later, two off-worlder humans Anna and Joe, are sent back to this wild and unpopulated planet to try to begin human life all over again. And together with their babbling computer companions Og, Trog and Walter, they set ... | Young Adult,Fiction | 1997-01-01 | 1247803 | |
Found | June Oldham | Left to fend for herself in a deserted 21st-century countryside, Ren joins forces with three other teens to save an abandoned baby, as well as herself, in this epic adventure about finding one's place in the world. Left to fend for herself in a deserted 21st-century countryside, Ren joins forces with three other teens ... | Science Fiction,Childrens,Fiction,Young Adult | 1998-06-29 | 2919031 | |
Jess and the Fireplug Caper | Elaine L. Schulte | A strange burglary at Jess's house leads to a mystery Jess can't escape. A strange burglary at Jess's house leads to a mystery Jess can't escape. ...more | Fiction | 1992-06-01 | 1764892 | |
Flora Segunda | Ysabeau S. Wilce | Flora knows better than to take shortcuts in her family home, Crackpot Hall--the house has eleven thousand rooms, and ever since her mother banished the magickal butler, those rooms move around at random. But Flora is late for school, so she takes the unpredictable elevator anyway. Huge mistake. Lost in her own house, ... | Fantasy,Young Adult,Fiction,Adventure,Childrens,Science Fiction | 2007-07-02 | 229033 |
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