Just a Girl

Author	Erin Gough
ISBN	1760127159

Two very different girls, and one giant hoax that could change – or ruin – everything.

Harriet Price has the perfect life: she's a prefect at Rosemead Grammar, she lives in a mansion, and her gorgeous girlfriend is a future prime minister. So when she risks it all by creating a hoax to...

Author	Mary Downing Hahn
ISBN	0618430180

Diana and her little brother Georgie have been living in the woods behind the old Willis place, a decaying Victorian mansion, for what already seems like forever. They aren’t allowed to leave the property or show themselves to anyone. But when a new caretaker comes to live there with his young daughter,...

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Alice Pung

After Alice Pung’s family fled to Australia from the killing fields of Cambodia, her father chose Alice as her name because he thought their new country was a Wonderland. In this lyrical, bittersweet debut memoir & already an award- winning bestseller when it was published in Australia &...

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Ambelin Kwaymullina

Nothing's been the same for Beth Teller since the day she died.

Her dad is drowning in grief. He's also the only one who has been able to see and hear her since the accident. But now she's got a mystery to solve, a mystery that will hopefully remind her detective father that he is still alive, that...

Author	Mary Downing Hahn
ISBN	0547385609

When twelve-year-old Florence boards the crowded horse-drawn coach in London, she looks forward to a new life with her great uncle and aunt at Crutchfield Hall, an old manor house in the English countryside. Anything will be better, she thinks, than the grim London orphanage where she has lived...

Author	Lynette Noni
ISBN	1525300415

“Lengard is a secret government facility for extraordinary people,” they told me.

I believed them. That was my mistake.

There isn’t anyone else in the world like me.

I’m different. I’m an anomaly. I’m a monster.

For two years, six months, fourteen...

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Elizabeth Cody Kimmel

A thrilling mystery set against a stark landscape and the inspiration of Nome's real-life dog hero, Balto.

Twelve-year-old Tee has just moved to Nome, Alaska, with her writer father and sullen little brother, Jack. Jack isn't happy about the idea of living in the middle of nowhere, but Tee...

Author	Mary Downing Hahn
ISBN	0547612206

I purchased this book not knowing the author wrote young adult horror stories. I did purchase in a bargain bin where all books are mixed together. I thought the writing was very simplistic and noticed the stories were very mild and centered around one bratty child. I decided to look up the author and decided...

Author	Laurie B. Friedman
ISBN	0822587394

EDIT on 12/28: I changed this from 5 to 3 stars given that the 5 star rating was based partially on the assumption that this was a true story and some of it was also based on the post story "non-fction" material. It might be a 4 star book for me, even as a fictional book, but I read it as non-fiction (which I just...