Just when they think they are safe, twins Coke and Pepsi are chased by an evil Elvis impersonator, trapped in a pool of flesh-eating soda, nearly pulverized in a giant shredder, and crushed in a turbo-charged carnival ride--but no one...
Family life
- Author:Gutman, DanSummary:
- Author:Roy, Jennifer RozinesSummary:
From 1939, when Syvia is four and a half years old, to 1945 when she has just turned ten, a Jewish girl and her family struggle to survive in Poland's Lodz ghetto during the Nazi occupation.
- Author:Carmichael, ClaySummary:
Stubborn, self-reliant, eleven-year-old Zoe, recently orphaned, moves to the country to live with her prickly half-uncle, a famous doctor and sculptor, and together they learn about trust and the strength of family.
- Author:Hanson, Ed, Doman, Mary KateSummary:
These traditional reads are brimming with spirited characters and positive values—but with a little extra excitement and bite, so hold on to your hats! Written expressly for the middle grade struggling reader, the series does not...
- Author:Klages, EllenSummary:
Living with the Gordons in their quiet desert town in New Mexico in 1946, Dewey is learning a lot from her science-obsessed adoptive family, but just as she begins to settle in and get comfortable, Dewey's long-lost mother...
- Author:Hoffman, AliceSummary:
When Teresa was a little girl, she dreamed of dark-eyed, fearless heroes on white horses who would sweep her away. But now, as the grown-up Teresa negotiates life and love, she begins to understand that fairy tales don't always come...
- Author:HORVATH, PollySummary:
Although Ivy and her family welcome the Halibuts, not all the townspeople are pleased to have circus people as neighbours, especially when more circus families move in.
- Author:Mitchard, JacquelynSummary:
Allie Kim's deathly allergy to sunlight confines her to the night, and without her best friend Juliet, the night feels even darker. Allie knows Juliet killed herself to escape Garrett Tabor, whom they saw commit a horrible crime,...
- Author:Coolidge, SusanSummary:
Twelve-year-old Katy always planned to do a great many wonderful things but in the end did something she never planned at all.
- Author:Nicholls, SallySummary:
Eleven-year-old Sam McQueen, who has leukemia, writes a book during the last three months of his life, in which he tells about what he would like to accomplish, how he feels, and things that have happened to him.
- Author:Liparulo, RobertSummary:
The Kings are focused on rescuing a lost family member, until a stranger comes to take their bizarre house. What secret is he hiding, as he hides the scars on his body? Can the Kings harness the house's secrets and discover who is...
- Author:Beaufrand, M. J.Summary:
On Whidbey Island, the Gray quintuplets are the stuff of legend. Pixie and her brothers have always been bigger and blonder than their neighbors, as if they were birthed from the island itself. Together, they serve as an unofficial...
- Author:Cabot, Meg.Summary:
John Hayden, a death deity, takes seventeen-year-old Pierce Oliviera back to the Underworld against her will to keep her safe from the Furies, but her family is still at risk and she, herself, may never escape his captivity.
- Author:Hanson, Ed, Doman, Mary KateSummary:
These traditional reads are brimming with spirited characters and positive values—but with a little extra excitement and bite, so hold on to your hats! Written expressly for the middle grade struggling reader, the series does not...
- Author:Obed, Ellen BryanSummary:
From the first ice, a thin skin on a bucket of water, through thickly-iced fields, streams, and gardens, a girl, her family, and friends anticipate and enjoy a winter of skating, ending with an ice show complete with costumes,...
- Author:Hamilton, VirginiaSummary:
Eleven-year-old Valena lives both in the present and the past as she struggles with racism in her daily life and listens to her mother's tales of her family's proud history.
- Author:Lin, GraceSummary:
Frustrated at her seeming lack of talent for anything, a young Taiwanese American girl sets out to apply the lessons of the Chinese Year of the Dog, those of making best friends and finding oneself, to her own life.
- Author:AviSummary:
When his father is arrested as a debtor in 1849 London, fourteen-year-old John Huffman must take on unexpected responsibilities, from asking a distant relative for help to determining why people are spying on him and his family.
- Author:Wyss, Johann DavidSummary:
Share with the Robinsons--a minister, his wife, and four sons--as they survive a shipwreck and then adapt to life on an island populated by exotic birds and animals. Through small successes and disappointments, not only does this...
- Author:McDonald, MeganSummary:
In Acton, Oregon, sisters Alex, Stevie, and Joey take turns telling about their lives, including their long line of actor ancestors, creative family dinners, toe marshmallows, swearing in Shakespeare, and the Sisters Club.