I Thought We Were Friends!

Author	Thatcher Heldring
ISBN	0385733909

TOBY WHEELER LOVES basketball and playing pickup games at the local rec center. No coaches, no practices, just nonstop action with his best friend, JJ, at his side. But lately JJ's been acting like he's too busy for Toby, and Toby knows it will only get worse once basketball season begins at their junior...

Author	Coert Voorhees
ISBN	1423103041

Frankie Towers has always looked up to his older brother, Steve, and with good reason. Steve is a popular senior who always gets what he wants: girls, a soccer scholarship, and--lately--street cred. Frankie, on the other hand, spends his time shooting off fireworks with his best friend Zach, working...

Author	Caroline B. Cooney
ISBN	0385732392

How can a girl have fun with a game if she's only watching from the sidelines? That's what sixteen-year-old Kelly Williams wonders when her best friend, Faith, complains that it's time to stop pretending and find real romance. As Kelly sees her friends, her older brother and even her parents knowingly...

Author	Melody Carlson
ISBN	1400071445

It’s pretty humiliating to admit, but I’ve never flown in a plane before today. So wouldn’t you think that I’d be feeling pretty jazzed right now? Instead I keep grabbing onto these armrests as I ask myself why on earth I ever agreed to come on this frightening trip.…

Affectionately...

Author	Angela Johnson
ISBN	0590481428

Angela Johnson's Coretta Scott King Award winning novel that traces three generations of African American women as they learn one another's truths.

Three generations of African American women, each holding on to a separate truth. Their story -- encompassing racism and murder as well as...

Author	S.L. Rottman
ISBN	0141307013

Sean is a 15 year old high school freshman. He has no one to look up to as his mother is abusive and a drug and alcohol addict. His father left the family a few years back and hasn't talked to Sean since. To make matters worse, whatever money Sean is able to make is stolen by his mother on a weekly basis....

Author	Alice Mead
ISBN	0440412455

Reeve McLain, Jr.--Junebug--has a big dream that keeps him going. He dreams that someday he and his younger sister and mother will move from the awful housing project where drugs, gangs, and guns are part of everyday life. Junebug's 10th birthday is coming up, and he knows the gangs and drug dealers will...

Author	Felicity Brooks
ISBN	0794514839

Is it fiction or history? This book does not resolve that question. Rather, Brooks presents the vibrant story of King Arthur, the Knights of the Round Table, and how Guinevere (or Mordred & Morgan le Fey) brought down Camelot and destroyed the lovely kingdom of Logros that King Arthur built.

We...

Author	Jane Yolen
ISBN	0152015051

One of my favorite picture books as a child, and still one of the most breathtaking books I've ever seen.

Illustrated with detailed and captivating drawings on every page, Dove Isabeau tells a classic, haunting fairy tale about a lovely young maiden and her evil, witch stepmother. Having lost...

Author	David Klass
ISBN	0060531711

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January 30 2014
Home Of The Braves
David klass book Home Of The Braves is something of a sportsie romance Drama. I thought the book was good it had some girly scenes in it. It talked about how Joe liked a girl but she was more interested in someone else…...

Author

Liz Ruckdeschel

After a year at Hillsdale High, Haley thinks she knows what she’s in for as she starts her junior year. She knows what to expect from the it girls, the brains, the rockers, and the artists. She knows how to handle drunken disasters, shoplifting scandals, IM warfare, and out-of-control false rumors....

Author	Rodman Philbrick
ISBN	0439856302

Twelve-year-old Skiff Beaman's mom just died, and his fisherman dad is too depressed to drag himself off the couch and go to work. So these days Skiff has to take care of everything himself. But when his dad's boat sinks, Skiff discovers it will cost thousands to buy a new engine. Skiff's lobster traps...

Author	Anita Liberty
ISBN	1416957898

I CAN'T FIX THE WORLD. I CAN ONLY SIT BACK AND CRITICIZE IT.





Welcome to the story of my life. Well, at least the story of my junior and senior years of high school. It's a profound, touching, and hilarious (if I do say so myself) tale told through cunning poems, revelatory diary...

Author

Robert D. San Souci

Editorial Reviews

From School Library Journal
Grade 4-8The creators of Dare to Be Scared (Cricket, 2003) once again combine their talents to present deliciously frightening tales. As in the first book, San Souci uses elements of urban legend and folklore to weave powerful and suspenseful...

Author	Lisa Papademetriou
ISBN	0545055822

Amy Flowers has a mess on her hands! Her best friends are volunteering at a community garden for the seventh grade service project, while she’s stuck teaching health to first graders with the class Queen of Mean, Fiona, and preppie know-it-all Preston. Now Fiona’s acting super-sweet, but Amy’s...

Author	Jessica Burkhart
ISBN	1442403861

OK, so my daughter is like BIG time into horses and for a stretch was obsessed with Canterwood and this series of books by Jessica Burkhart. I, being the anglophone father of a bi-cultural kid, tried to read this in English to her. Tried? well, I read it to her, but honestly, it was a painful experience. First...

Author	Lauren Child
ISBN	1841216240

Uncle Ted is Clarice Bean's Mum's younger brother. He is a fireman who has had plenty of close shaves, which, as Clarice says, is funny because he has a beard. Another uncle, Ernie, is a policeman in New York City and he has had an accident, slipping on a doughnut. Clarice's Mum has to go out to assist him because...

Author	Deborah Abela
ISBN	1416940243

Who can outsmart the dastardly Mr. Blue?None other than Max Remy, superspy!

Can't get enough of Max Remy? She's back, with her friend Linden at her side, and they're off on a new adventure as they hone their spy skills.

Now a full-fledged member of Spy Force, Max finds herself up against...

Author	Ann M. Martin
ISBN	0545068967

Reviewed by Marta Morrison for TeensReadToo.com

The ninth installment of Ann M. Martin's MAIN STREET series, this is Nikki's story.

Her father comes back to finalize the divorce between himself and her mother. She is very anxious about his return, and the chapters dealing with her...

Author	Ripley Entertainment Inc.
ISBN	0545238005

Believe It or Not is like Guinness World Records, the author gives you a lot of information about interesting or crazy things people have done. Robert Ripley, the author of the book became a huge star after he founded this book. This book is Non-fiction, the genre is mostly crazy but also a little scary....

Author	Francesco Sedita
ISBN	0545162475

Cassie's back! The loveable heroine of MISS POPULARITY and MISS POPULARITY GOES CAMPING returns in a sweet and funny story about friendship, change, and the importance of lip gloss.

Cassie is so excited! Her best friends from her native Texas are coming to visit her in Maine for her birthday....

Author	Annie Kelsey
ISBN	1492623288

Sometimes a little white lie can land you in a whole lot of trouble...

Pippa's new BFF Catie Brown is perfect. So perfect, that Pippa tells her a teeny tiny lie-that she once auditioned for Voice Factor-to impress her. And it works. It works so well, in fact, that Catie enters Pippa into the school...