White House Autumn
10 best books like White House Autumn (Ellen Emerson White): Remember Me to Harold Square, Laura's Luck, Jersey Tomatoes are the Best, Betsy Was a Junior / Betsy and Joe, Love Is One of the Choices, The FitzOsbornes at War, Something Wicked, Son of Interflux, Taking Terri Mueller, Welcome to Vietnam
| Author | Paula Danziger |
| ISBN | 0698116941 |
This summer could be a disaster. Kendra's parents have invited Frank, a 15-year-old she's never met, to stay with them. And they've planned a goofy scavenger hunt for the kids, including Kendra's bratty younger brother. They have to race all around New York City and visit places like the Empire State...
| Author | Marilyn Sachs |
| ISBN | 0595175902 |
We really enjoyed this account of Laura's 8 week stay at a summer camp. Nothing out of the ordinary happens, but we get to see 12 yr old Laura come from the city, get used to the outdoors, trying things outside her comfort zone, make friends and experience nature.
Laura likes reading and finds it...
| Author | Maria Padian |
| ISBN | 0375865799 |
This is a hilarious and heartbreaking story of two teen girls and the summer when everything changes for them. Both Henry and Eva are New Jersey natives and excellent athletes: Henry's a master on the tennis court and Eva is a graceful ballerina. When opportunity knocks for both of them the summer before...
Betsy Was a Junior / Betsy and Joe
| Author | Maud Hart Lovelace |
| ISBN | 0061794724 |
Betsy Was a Junior: It's the best school year ever, especially now that charming, funny Tib Muller is back in Deep Valley. But when her crowd gets into trouble, Betsy's best year could turn out to be her worst.
Betsy and Joe: Betsy always thought she and Joe Willard were made for each other—and...
| Author | Norma Klein |
| ISBN | 0449702731 |
WHEN YOU'RE NEITHER A GIRL NOR A WOMAN...
Maggie and Caroline are both seniors in high school and suddenly everything that seemed simple has become complicated. Thinking about sex, wondering about college, planning for careers -- there are so many choices.
Maggie is brilliant and very...
| Author | Michelle Cooper |
| ISBN | 0375970509 |
Michelle Cooper completes her heart-stealing epic drama of history and romance with The FitzOsbornes at War.
Sophie FitzOsborne and the royal family of Montmaray escaped their remote island home when the Nazis attacked. But as war breaks out in England and around the world, nowhere is safe....
| Author | Alan Gratz |
| ISBN | 0803736665 |
The Scottish Highland Festival in Tennessee is all set to begin, but there’s one problem: Duncan MacRae, founder of the games, has just been murdered. The police arrested Malcolm, Duncan’s son, but is he really the killer? Horatio Wilkes, for one, has doubts. Horatio is attending the festival...
| Author | Gordon Korman |
| ISBN | 0590411861 |
YA. I think -- I'm pretty sure -- that this is just as awesome as I remembered it. More, even, because this time through I could see a lot of parallels to Heller's Catch-22, which made me love it even more. It's got Korman's trademark geeks (ambitious, lovable, misdirected) engaging in shenanigans (large-scale,...
| Author | Norma Fox Mazer |
| ISBN | 0380790041 |
For as long as I can remember, It's just been Daddy and me. I can't remember my mother. I was told she died in an accident when I was four, and that's all I know about her. I don't understand why there isn't even a picture of her. The other thing I don't understand is why we're always moving -- different towns...
Oh, do I ever wish these books would be republished. It's a disadvantage in some ways to have started with
The Road Home
, as I was so completely won over by Mike, grouchy, maddening SOB as he was at times in that, that I couldn't see him as a just-met character. I also think it might be that there's a bit of...
Dear Lovey Hart,
I am desperate. I love a man old enough to be my father. I worship him from afar. Do you think there is any hope for a relationship between us?
G.C.
Dear G.C.,
Not unless he wants to adopt you.
Chip is cute. He is also the editor of the high school newspaper. So...
| Author | Diana Peterfreund |
| ISBN | 0385341938 |
From “witty and endearing” to “impossible to put down,” the critics have given elite marks to Diana Peterfreund’s
Secret Society Girl
and
Under the Rose
. Now, in a wildly captivating new novel, Amy “Bugaboo” Haskel and her fellow Rose & Grave knights are trading cold, gray,...
| Author | Melissa C. Walker |
| ISBN | 0425221822 |
The return of Violet, the not-so-confident model.
Violet Greenfield knows she's supposed to be a super-confident nineteen-year-old because she's done runway shows in New York and internationally. But now that she's finally headed to college, she's afraid she'll turn back into that girl...
| Author | Jane Claypool Miner |
From small town girl to Hollywood star, her heart would belong to only one boy. Theirs would be the greatest love story Hollywood had ever known.
Roxanne has come from a small town to Hollywood with one dream: to become a star. And she will do anything to succeed: change her looks, her name, and her friends.
She...
Winning the lottery is the biggest ticket to freedom Greer Hawthorne’s ever had.
Until her best friend’s brother comes to town . . .
Greer Hawthorne’s winning lottery ticket doesn’t just bring her wealth, it also means her chance at a long-postponed education. She’s finally...
| Author | Sylvia Waugh |
| ISBN | 0380788675 |
The fourth volume in the delightful fantasy series about a family of rag dolls who live on a quiet street in England, keeping to themselves, wearing dark glasses to hide their button eyes, and carefully guarding the secret that they are rag dolls, brought to life by the loving hearts and hands of the woman...
| Author | Mary Francis Shura |
| ISBN | 0590332422 |
She lived in a time when loving the wrong man could mean exile from her home. One Man would love her; one man would lose her.
Jessica had lived all her life on the flat Kansas prairie. It was there, the year she turned sixteen, that Jessica fell in love. The young Indian brave, Wheeling Hawk, saved her...
Sandwich, with a Side of Romance
| Author | Krista Phillips |
| ISBN | 1426745923 |
She moved to Sandwich, Illinois, in search of a new life, but ended up in a giant pickle. Sandwich represents hope for twenty-year-old Maddie Buckner and Kyle, the eleven-year-old brother Maddie wants to spring out of foster care. Then she loses her new job after less than a day. It 's all Reuben-the-Jerk...
