Weeping Willow

Author	Zilpha Keatley Snyder
ISBN	0440411521

I picked this book up at the Goodwill, not really knowing what it was about other than running, which I have an interest in. Surprisingly, it was about the Dust Bowl era, my current topic of particular interest! Therefore, I may have liked it more than I would have otherwise. But all in all, it was a very good...

Author	Robert Swindells
ISBN	0435124994

Somebody was in there. Somebody—or something...

There is no room thirteen in the creepy Crow's Nest Hotel, where Fliss and her friends are staying on a school trip. Or is there? For at the stroke of midnight, something peculiar happens to the door of the linen cupboard next to room 12. And something...

Author	Margaret Mahy
ISBN	0670864552

Hero's family is famous for its gifted, articulate children. Ginevra excels in math and science, Athol in metaphysics; Sapphira is a budding wordsmith. Only Hero is different: she does not speak. Yet, all things considered, the Rappers' lives are relatively peaceful... until Hero's wayward sister...

Author	Cynthia D. Grant
ISBN	0679867260

I'm really surprised the summary at the top of Goodreads lays it all about the sexual abuse...I'm sure the metaphoric descriptions throughout the book would be obvious to an adult, but for me, a sheltered 11 year old reading it in 1995, it was a HUGE plot twist (but not the only plot twist) when it was finally...

Author	Eve Bunting
ISBN	0152413588

At seventeen, Dru gets involved with the latest high school stunt-leaping between deadly cliffs into the ocean far below. Things get out of hand as manipulative relationships and resulting jealousies cause more students to risk their lives. “It’s Bunting’s acknowledgment of the allure of...

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	Cynthia Voigt
ISBN	0590467158

This novel covers one day in the life of a girl who is being sexually abused by her adoptive father. Voigt shows well the manipulation, the mother who refuses to see what is happening, and the teacher who refuses to let Tish tell. She shows the jumbled thoughts of the victim, the way the victim uses all the...

Author	Mitali Perkins
ISBN	0316734535

As Indian culture continues to curry the movies, music, and literature of American culture, the time is perfect to re-introduce this Indian-themed novel about a young girl's heart-felt attempt to straddle her two worlds. Like any other eighth grader, smart and spunky Sunita Sen just wants to fit in....

Author	Sheila Cole
ISBN	0380725754

In a flash, Valerie's world comes tumbling down. Talented pretty and popular. She was enjoying life and planing her future. She and Peter, the love of her life, were sharing their dreams. Now she and Peter share a problem...

Except it turns out to be Val's problem. Peter says he loves her, but...

Author	Lynne Reid Banks
ISBN	0380791358

What is the sinister mystery of Chateau Bois Serpe? Roger, his parents, and twin sisters arrive at this crumbling ruin in the wilds of France, anticipating a holiday that's "different." And so it proves, but not as they'd hoped. The owner, the strange daughter Mesuline, whom Roger first meets tending...

Author	Elizabeth Orton Jones
ISBN	1930900058

Had you heard of Elizabeth Orton Jones before seeing this book? If so, your familiarity was probably with her lovely illustrations in Prayer for a Child by Rachel Field, which won the 1945 Caldecott Medal as the year's most distinguished picture book. Elizabeth Orton Jones is an exceptional artist,...

Author	Jacqueline Woodson
ISBN	0142501905

Feni is furious when she finds out that her mother has agreed to take a fifteen-year-old pregnant girl into their home until her baby is born. What kind of girl would let herself get into so much trouble? How can Feni live under the same roof with someone like that? Her worst fears are confirmed when Rebecca...

Author	Peni R. Griffin
ISBN	0780748204

The two of them live in the same town--Amber in 1991, and Ada in 1891--and they both have real problems. Amber's parents are getting divorced, and she seems to be the last to know. Ada's father doesn't think women have minds of their own. So the two troubled girls hit on the same solution: they each go to the...

Author	Liz Berry
ISBN	0140365346

This is kind of a weird book. On the one hand, it's a Cinderella romance story between poor, abused, untrusting Mel and rich, glamorous, rock star Mitch. On the other hand, it's also the story of how Mel takes charge of her life after her mother's breakdown. And on the third hand, there's a hefty dose of social...

Author	Laurence Yep
ISBN	0688093655

"This poignant, gently humorous novel is about prejudice and acceptance....15-year-old Joan Lee is a child of two worlds. As a Chinese American, she has never felt her separateness more than now, in 1927, in this new place in West Virginia. Only Miss Lucy, their landlord and neighbor, seems welcoming....There's...

Author	Bianca Pitzorno
ISBN	8804445343

Le lunghe estate in un paesino di montagna sono, per tre amiche "cittadine, un'occasione per ritrovarsi e godere dei tranquilli passatempi di sempre. Ma ecco che arriva, a sconvolgere le loro giornate, la troupe televisiva di un popolarissima sceneggiato, la cui interprete è una famosa diva adolescente:...

Author	Paul Zindel
ISBN	0553243950

Bobby Perkins knew the minute he saw Mr. Hulka, his sinister new neighbor, that the man was evil. Then one morning, while spying on the man, who works as an undertaker, Bobby thinks he witnesses a violent crime. Bobby is determined to expose Mr. Hulka, and he asks his best friend, Lauri, to help him. The...

Author	Robert Silverberg
ISBN	0446362867

Letters from Atlantis by Robert Silverberg is a novella set up as a concise narrative in the form of letters written between two mental time travelers visiting the Atlantean Empire some 18,000 years ago, during the last ice age.

Time researchers are sent back in time as a discorporeal entity...

Author	Tim Wynne-Jones
ISBN	0888996373

14-year-old Burl Crow has a father who is violent. His mother struggles with mental illness. When he follows his father to his secret fishing spot he learns that his father is having an affair. Burl's cover is blown and his father beats him. As his father strikes blow after blow, a helicopter flies overhead,...

Author	Tim Winton
ISBN	0330340689

I really enjoyed the characterization on Egg. I thought the way that Lockie's parents handled his depression and teenaged sulking were funny. There's a lot of funny with this book. I also enjoyed that it didn't wrap up in a perfectly happy ending.

I read the book first. Now I know there was a book...

Author

Anke de Vries

I read the book, Bruises by Anke de Vries. I loved this book so much that I have read it multiple times. This book was about a 12 year old girl, Judith who has been getting physically abused by her mother. The abuse is an on going cycle for Judith. Later she meets a boy her age, Michael who is in a situation like...

Author	Robert Westall
ISBN	0590416928

Maggi Adams loves her dad. He hasn't been the same since her mom died. Nothing has been the same. Maggi knows they need a change, and she definitely knows they need to get far away from the horrid woman their dad hired to clean the house while he's working. She's just too forward....and common. Her dad doesn't...

Author	Richard Peck
ISBN	0805063161

"Out at the city limits there's this sign that says WELCOME TO CLAYPITTS, PEARL OF THE PRAIRIE, and if you'd believe that, you'd believe anything."

Sixteen-year-old Carol Patterson is a girl in the middle: in the middle of her sisters, in the middle of her adolescence, in the middle of her family's...

Author	Daniel Pinkwater
ISBN	3358022218

Daniel Pinkwater is one of the best, insanest and most overlooked writers alive. He's also a "young adult" author.*

Borgel is about the average quiet, chubby, clever Pinkwater protagonist whose uncle from the old country explains Dairy Queens are portals between dimensions and that his...