A Pearl Among Princes
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| Author | Siobhan Dowd |
| ISBN | 0375849718 |
Holly’s story will leave a lasting impression on all who travel with her.
Memories of mum are the only thing that make Holly Hogan happy. She hates her foster family with their too-nice ways and their false sympathy. And she hates her life, her stupid school, and the way everyone is always on...
| Author | Diane Zahler |
| ISBN | 0061825018 |
Twelve-year-old Lilia is not a very good servant. In fact, she's terrible! She daydreams, she breaks dishes, and her cooking is awful. Still, she hardly deserves to be sold off to the mean-spirited miller and his family. Refusing to accept that dreadful fate, she decides to flee. With her best friend,...
| Author | Gail Carson Levine |
| ISBN | 0061130613 |
Ever since Newbery Honor author Gail Carson Levine introduced the magical village of Snettering-on-Snoakes in the faraway Kingdom of Biddle, young readers have been laughing their way through her hilarious retellings of famous and not-so-famous fairy tales.
Now, for the first time, the...
| Author | Maya Gold |
| ISBN | 0545227690 |
Welcome to Cinderella Cleaners:
Drop-off service! Quality care! Total transformation...
Cinderella Cleaners has just received a shipment of dance costumes for a big upcoming performance. Diana's friend, Amelia, is supposed to be in the show...BUT she needs Diana to secretly fill...
| Author | Lindsay Eland |
| ISBN | 1606840258 |
Seek tirelessly and you shall not find a contemporary heroine of middle-grade literature as refined and romantic as Miss Polly Madassa. Still swooning over the romantic conclusions of Pride & Prejudice and Anne of Green Gables, twelve-year-old Polly decides her purpose in life: helping along...
Like the captivating bestseller Girl with a Pearl Earring, this exciting new series explores the stories behind some of the world's most dazzling paintings.
Welcome to 19th-century Paris and the world of Degas's dancers. 13-year-old Sylvie is one of the pupils at the Paris Opera Ballet,...
Reviewed by Jaglvr for TeensReadToo.com
You will either hate Chloe Gamble or you will love her. I came away from reading THE ONE absolutely spellbound by Chloe and eager for more in the follow-up, VIP LOUNGE.
When Chloe's mom catches her dad with another woman, it's all the ammunition...
| Author | Kimberly Brubaker Bradley |
| ISBN | 0803731272 |
Abigail is starting a new middle school, a Catholic school, because she's been expelled from her old one. She's sure that this place will be just the same as the last, and no one will listen to her here either. Even her parents don't seem able to really hear the truth about what happened at the previous school....
| Author | Adèle Geras |
| ISBN | 0152055312 |
In this retelling of "Sleeping Beauty," Alice seems destined to lead a princess's life--except for the frightening curse that dreaded Aunt Violette bestowed at her christening: She will die at the age of eighteen. Although she lives, something horrible happens on her eighteenth birthday. And as...
When Dominic's children are kidnapped by raiding pirates, Gabrielle and Feolan find themselves drawn into their most frightening adventure yet, a sea journey into unknown lands. The adventure takes a deadly turn when the Gray Veil, a plague that slowly chokes its victims, strikes the harbor town...
| Author | Laura Resau |
| ISBN | 0385740530 |
Down-to-earth Zeeta and her flighty mom, Layla, have spent years traveling the globe and soaking up everything each new culture has to offer. Now they've settled in the beachside town of Mazunte, Mexico, where Zeeta's true love, Wendell, has an internship photographing rare sea turtles. At first...
| Author | Maria Testa |
| ISBN | 0763633666 |
"Rapt readers don’t need to know anything about Vietnam to understand love, loss, fear, and waiting. A tour de force." — KIRKUS REVIEWS (starred review)
When the six-year-old narrator of this lyric novel watches her father march off to serve a year in the U.S. Army Medical Corps, a year...
| Author | Penny Blubaugh |
| ISBN | 0061468754 |
When Toby breathes on Mama Inez's bird-shaped invitations, giving them the power to fly, plans for the Serendipity Market begin. Soon, eleven honored guests travel from afar and make their way to the storytellers' tent to share their stories. Each tale proves what Mama Inez knows—that magic is everywhere....
| Author | Mette Ivie Harrison |
| ISBN | 0061553174 |
She is the headstrong daughter of the hound and the bear, heir to all her royal parents' magic and able to transform at will into any animal she wishes.
He is an outcast, a boy without magic, determined to make his way in the forest beholden to no one.
Though Liva and Jens are as different...
| Author | Melanie Gideon |
| ISBN | 1595140557 |
Thomas Quicksilver, known to his classmates as "Pucker," has always been an outsider. His crazy mother, the secret of his family's strange origins, and above all, the terrible scars on his face from a childhood fire these things have kept Thomas isolated and lonely. But now, at seventeen, Thomas is...
| Author | Jacquelyn Mitchard |
| ISBN | 1595142770 |
Mallory and Meredith Brynn are no ordinary twins: born on either side of midnight, one has the power to see into the future, the other into the past.
But supernatural visions can’t keep Merry from falling for the new boy in town, even if the relationship is doomed from the start. The reason?...
What I Wore to Save the World
Third in the fabulous series that started with Why I Let My Hair Grow Out
Senior year?s coming up fast and Morgan still has no clue about college, or a career?the whole rest of-her-life thing is basically a blank. Maybe it?s because she spent her junior year obsessing about Colin, the hot Irish...
| Author | Sonya Hartnett |
| ISBN | 0763647608 |
Plum Coyle is on the edge of adolescence. Her fourteenth birthday is approaching, when her old life and her old body will fall away, and she will become graceful, powerful, and at ease. The strength of the objects she stores in a briefcase under her bed —a crystal lamb, a yoyo, an antique watch, a coin...
Annie McRae has her whole senior year planned out. Early acceptance to Brown University, a field hockey scholarship to pay the bills, and days spent with her best friend Jamie and her boyfriend Jake. It is going to be perfect. Then her parents ruin it all by moving--to Alabama. Now, Annie finds herself...
| Author | Denise Vega |
| ISBN | 0375848193 |
Winner of the Colorado Book Award for Young Adult fiction, Cybil nominee. Fact of Life #129: Some people put you where they want you to be, not where you actually are.16-year-old Kat Flynn believes in going with the flow. She practices yoga, works with her mom at Abra’s Midwifery, and watches the Perfect...
| Author | Christopher Golden |
| ISBN | 1439148236 |
Her terrifying dreams are nothing compared to the all-too-real nightmare that awaits. . . .Ever since sixteen-year-old Rose DuBois woke up from months in a coma with absolutely no memories, she’s had to start from scratch. She knows she loves her two aunts who take care of her, and that they all used...
| Author | Lucienne Diver |
| ISBN | 0738721298 |
Gina's Rules for Vampires on Surviving Super Spy School Training: 1. First, the dirt and sweat are just too horrible to contemplate.
2. Going goth to infiltrate a high school and see who's messing with supernatural powers means no color palette to speak of. And don't even get me started on the...
Mary Jane 2 (Spider-Man) (Bk. 2)
| Author | Judith O'Brien |
| ISBN | 0785114335 |
Volume One:
CASING BY MIKE MAYHEW
WRITTEN BY Judith O'Brien
Illustrations by Mike Mayhew
Marvel's bold entry into Young Adult fiction puts a novel twist on Ultimate Spider-Man by shining the spotlight on Peter Parker's girlfriend, Mary Jane Watson!
Written by the award-winning...
