The Language of Goldfish
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| Author | Lurlene McDaniel |
| ISBN | 0553571486 |
When Heather Barlow returns from Africa, the joy she felt during her missionary trip fades. She's still suffering from unresolved grief over the death of her friend Ian, and now that she's back home in the United States, she feels directionless. And while Heather has changed a great deal, her...
| Author | Cynthia Voigt |
| ISBN | 1416903399 |
One moment can change a life forever.
Fifteen-year-old Izzy has it all -- a loving family, terrific friends, a place on the cheerleading squad. But her comfortable world crumbles when a date with a senior ends in a car crash and she loses her right leg.
Suddenly nothing is the same. The simplest...
| Author | Aidan Chambers |
| ISBN | 0525468633 |
Seventeen-year-old Jacob Todd is about to discover himself. Jacob's plan is to go to Amsterdam to honor his grandfather who died during World War II. He expects to go, set flowers on his grandfather's tombstone, and explore the city. But nothing goes as planned. Jacob isn't prepared for love--or to...
| Author | Martha Brooks |
| ISBN | 0374349851 |
Seventeen-year-old Odella is haunted by family secrets. Why doesn't her great-aunt Gloria visit anymore? Why does her mother, Sally, drink so much? Sally's tragic car accident on a frozen lake when she was sixteen seems to have cast a spell over her life that no one can break. Odella tries to hold her...
| Author | Betty Ren Wright |
| ISBN | 0590427490 |
ahh the scholastic apple paperback. .
| Author | Ellen Wittlinger |
| ISBN | 1416902732 |
"I might as well tell you before you hear it someplace else...My mother is dying. She has leukemia and she came here to die."
Nathan and his adorable little sister just moved in across the street from Liz Scattergood, and both of them could use a friend. Liz just isn't sure she's the right person....
| Author | Paul Yee |
| ISBN | 1554980941 |
An American Library Association Youth Media Award Stonewall Honor Book
Ray Liu knows he should be happy. He lives in a big suburban house with all the latest electronic gadgets, and even finds plenty of time to indulge in his love of gaming. He needs the escape. It’s tough getting grades...
| Author | Ellen Conford |
| ISBN | 0671637630 |
Sylvie isn't your average girl. When she dresses up she looks eighteen, and she's spent the last three years in foster care plotting her escape to Hollywood. But as Sylvie quickly learns on the road, zigzagging across the Midwest in a stranger's two-tone blue Pontiac, life isn't like the movies. Left...
| Author | Richard Peck |
| ISBN | 0440973392 |
How well do we know our best friends?
They were the best of friends. Sixteen-year-old Buck Mendenhall first met Kate Lucas the summer before seventh grade. In eighth grade they made friends with the brilliant and wealthy newcomer, Trav Kirby. They didn't seem to need anyone else. Mostly they...
| Author | Laura Pedersen |
| ISBN | 0345479564 |
“We’re approaching Cat in the Hat level chaos and no one’s even had breakfast yet.”
When the death of her father leaves her mother bereft and incapacitated, card shark Hallie Palmer returns home from college to raise Hallie’s eight younger siblings. Hallie’s older brother has...
| Author | M.E. Kerr |
| ISBN | 0064470326 |
Although this book was first published in 1973, I hadn't heard of or read it until now in 2014. It's about a popular high school teenage boy who trashes the new kid at school because he threatens his popularity. At home, Alan lives with his mom and grandfather, while his estranged father tries to become...
| Author | Lois Lowry |
| ISBN | 0440800145 |
A powerful, thoughtful middle-grades novel which questions: what makes a family? Rabble Starkey and her mother live with the well-to-do Bigelows because Rabble's mother is their live-in housekeeper/nanny. For the first two years of his life, the youngest Bigelow, four-year-old Gunther, actually...
| Author | Ronald K. Siegel |
| ISBN | 0452269539 |
A beautiful pianist hears her music drowned out by the voice of God. A young woman calmly watches the gang rape of her girlfriend and herself. A shy schoolboy turns to his invisible best friend to wreak bloody vengeance. In Fire in the Brain, Ronald K. Siegel shows how even the sober brain can create the...
| Author | Brock Cole |
| ISBN | 0374410828 |
"Show a little maturity," he said, which I've doped out to mean: Pass all your courses, avoid detection in all crimes and misdemeanors, don't get pregnant.
Celine's father has left her with these instructions. She's not too worried about the last two, but she'll fail English unless she rewrites...
| Author | Bruce Brooks |
| ISBN | 0064470210 |
On the Road
Sibilance T. Spooner thinks she's one of the world's more promising cellists. The world thinks so too. Given up by her mother on the day she was born, she believes she has almost raised herself--with just a bit of guidance from her unconventional father, Taxi. When Sib finally asks...
| Author | D.A. Stern |
| ISBN | 1578602041 |
In September of 2004, Dr. Charles Marsh arrived at the Kriegmoor Psychiatric Institute in Bayfield, Wisconsin, anxious to take on his new duties, eager to distance himself from the scandal that had forced him to resign his previous post. Among the patients assigned to Marsh at this time was a young woman...
| Author | Norma Klein |
| ISBN | 0380007916 |
This book tells the story of Brett, an eleven-year-old girl with a feisty unwed-and-single-by-choice mother who's brought her up on all varieties of granola liberal hogwash. The Wolf Man is her mother's new beau. He has a wolfhound, a pock-marked face and a great red beard. A pleasurable aspect of this...
| Author | Paula Danziger |
| ISBN | 0340795395 |
No one wants to ride The Divorce Express. Especially not Phoebe. It means she has to leave her New York City apartment and her boyfriend every Sunday night to spend the week in the country with her dad.
It means she has to start at a new school, make new friends and watch her father go on dates. Now...
| Author | Cheryl Paradis |
| ISBN | 0806531053 |
The defendant told the jury that he did not kill girlfriend. He "did," however, admit to dismembering her, boiling her bones, and hiding them in the Port Authority locker." At the heart of countless crimes lies the mystery of the human mind. In this eye-opening book, Dr. Cheryl Paradis draws back the...
REVISED SECOND EDITION
"The day I turned sixteen years old I had no idea that in a few weeks nearly everyone I cared about would be dead. It was therefore with a free and unclouded spirit that I went down to the DMV and failed my driving test."
Allen Mockery's family is in ruins. He and his...
| Author | Garret Weyr, also Freymann-Weyr |
| ISBN | 0618605711 |
Sixteen-year-old Leila Abranel was born some twenty years after her sisters. Her elegant sisters from her father’s first marriage have lives full of work, love affairs, and travel. Leila doesn’t know either of them very well, but she loves hearing about them—details of Rebecca’s ruined...
