A high school senior tries to cope with the shifting patterns of his life while struggling to come to terms with his parents' divorce, his best friend's sudden departure, his mother's remarriage, and his father's...
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- Author:Shoup, BarbaraSummary:
- Author:Cooney, Caroline B.Summary:
The members of two families have their lives disrupted when a teenage girl who had been kidnapped twelve years earlier discovers that the people who raised her are not her biological parents.
- Author:Cooney, Caroline B.Summary:
While still adjusting to the reality of having two families, her birth family and the family into which she was kidnapped as a small child, seventeen-year-old Janie makes a shocking discovery about her long-gone kidnapper.
- Author:TODD, PenelopeSummary:
Eighteen-year-old city girl, Zillah, abandons her safe summer holiday plans and takes the train to the wild West Coast in response to a mysterious letter. Her destination is an empty shack on a dangerous tidal river where she meets the...
- Author:Siddons, Anne RiversSummary:
When her husband drops her for a younger woman, Molly Redwine of Atlanta--mother of two adult children and a woman accustomed to comfort--thinks it is the end of the world. But as she recuperates in Martha's Vineyard, Molly...
- Author:Lewis, Naomi K.Summary:
When her marriage suddenly ends, and a diary documenting her beloved grandfather's escape from Nazi-occupied Netherlands in the summer of 1942 is discovered, Naomi K. Lewis decides to retrace his journey to learn about her family...
- Author:Jordan, JesseSummary:
Upon learning that he's the Antichrist, sixteen-year-old James Salley must discover how to navigate a world in which everything he's ever believed is wrong--and if it's possible to be the hero of a story when you've already been cast as...
- Author:Chima, Cinda WilliamsSummary:
Sixteen-year-old Seph, a powerful wizard, gets caught up in a conflict between the Wizard Council, smaller groups with their own agendas, and a rogue politician--the Dragon--whose identity and whereabouts the others seek to know.
- Author:hooks, bellSummary:
In a social and cultural analysis, the author explores the world of masculinity and maleness to address some of men's most common concerns, including a fear of intimacy and the loss of their patriarchal place in society, arguing...
- Author:Chima, Cinda WilliamsSummary:
After learning about his magical ancestry and his own warrior powers, sixteen-year-old Jack embarks on a training program to fight enemy wizards.
- Author:Bushkowsky, AaronSummary:
The Vanishing Man is a collection of linked short stories about a man trying to come to terms with his past, a religious upbringing, in an ever-changing personal world that constantly throws him into self-doubt. He marries, finds...
- Author:Ibbotson, Eva.Summary:
After twelve-year-old Annika, a foundling living in late nineteenth-century Vienna, inherits a trunk of costume jewelry, a woman claiming to be her aristocratic mother arrives and takes her to live in a strangely decrepit mansion in...
- Author:Cabot, Meg.Summary:
Fourteen-year-old Mia, who is trying to lead a normal life as a teenage girl in New York City, is shocked to learn that her father is the Prince of Genovia, a small European principality, and that she is a princess and the heir to the...
- Author:Connell, R.W.Summary:
- Author:Stratton, AllanSummary:
Hans, a foundling raised by a grave robber, helps Countess Angela Gabriela, nearly thirteen, when she is torn away from her dream of being a professional puppeteer by an evil archduke out to destroy her and her parents.
- Author:Benton, Jim.Summary:
Being a mad scientist in the modern world is very hard work. With so much that needs to be done in such a short period of time, multitasking can get way out of hand. Franny needs some additional help. But for Franny there is only one...
- Author:An, NaSummary:
Korean American high school student Joyce Kim feels like a nonentity compared to her beautiful older sister, and when her aunt offers to pay for plastic surgery on her eyes, she jumps at the chance, thinking it will change her life for...
- Author:Cooney, Caroline B.Summary:
A photograph of a missing girl on a milk carton leads Janie on a search for her real identity.
- Author:Nazemian, AbdiSummary:
Iranian-American Daria and her friends call themselves the Authentics, because they pride themselves on always keeping it real. But Daria soon learns something shocking about her past. Can she figure out how to stay true to herself?
- Author:Lewis, R. C.Summary:
A futuristic retelling of Snow White in which seventeen-year-old Essie, a master at repairing robots and drones on the frozen mining planet Thanda, is pulled into a war by handsome and mysterious Dane after his shuttle crash-lands near...