On visit to Namorn to visit her vast landholdings and her devious cousin, Empress Berenene, eighteen-year-old Sandry must rely on her childhood friends and fellow mages, Daja, Tris, and Briar, despite the distance that has grown between...
Friendship
- Author:Pierce, TamoraSummary:
- Author:Brown, PeterSummary:
When robot Roz opens her eyes for the first time, she discovers that she is alone on a remote, wild island with only the animal inhabitants to help her. The Wild Robot raises thought-provoking questions about the environment, technology...
- Author:Cooney, Caroline B.Summary:
Fifteen-year-old Janie feels devastated when she discovers that her boyfriend has betrayed her and her family through his college radio program.
- Author:Seethaler, Robert, Collins, CharlotteSummary:
Seventeen-year-old Franz Huchel leaves his village and journeys to Vienna to apprentice at a tobacco shop. There he meets Sigmund Freud, one of the regular customers. Over time, an unlikely friendship develops between the two very...
- Author:Seethaler, Robert, Collins, Charlotte, Simonian, RupertSummary:
From The Man Booker International Prize finalist Robert Seethaler comes a tender, heartbreaking story about one young man and his friendship with Sigmund Freud during the Nazi occupation of Vienna. Seventeen-year-old Franz Huchel...
- Author:Seethaler, Robert, Collins, Charlotte, Simonian, RupertSummary:
From The Man Booker International Prize finalist Robert Seethaler comes a tender, heartbreaking story about one young man and his friendship with Sigmund Freud during the Nazi occupation of Vienna. Seventeen-year-old Franz Huchel...
- Author:Kadarusman MichelleSummary:
"Hummingbirds and angels don't need two good feet. They have wings." That's what Alba's mother always says. Of course, Alba doesn't have wings or two good feet: she has Cleo. Cleo is the name Alba has given...
- Author:John, Jory, Barnett, MacSummary:
It's Miles' and Niles' final year, and the Terrible Two have one goal: an epic prank, something that will leave a lasting legacy at their school; but will the new superintendent ruin their plans?
- Author:Barnett, Mac.Summary:
On their own, pranksters Miles and Niles were pretty devious. Now that they've formed a pranking duo, they're terrible! But their powers will be tested when their favorite nemesis, Principal Barkin, is replaced by his stern...
- Author:Cotter, CharisSummary:
In 1960s Toronto, two girls retreat to their attics to escape the loneliness and isolation of their lives. Polly lives in a house bursting at the seams with people, while Rose is often left alone by her busy parents. Soon they discover...
- Author:Devoto, Pat CunninghamSummary:
Tab and Tina, relatives of a founder of Ku Klux Klan, are whisked away to an interracial Civil Rights school one summer. There, they befriend both a black polio patient and the biracial daughter of a Yankee and a Civil Rights leader....
- Author:Han, JennySummary:
Belly spends the summer she turns sixteen at the beach just like every other summer of her life, but this time things are very different.
- Author:Picoult, JodiSummary:
Sage Singer befriends Josef Weber, a beloved Little League coach and retired teacher. But then Josef asks Sage for a favor she never could have imagined--to kill him. After Josef reveals the heinous act he committed, Sage feels he may...
- Author:Baugh, LeanneSummary:
After being attacked by a grizzly bear in the Rocky Mountains, seventeen-year-old Abby Hughes' facial scars are all she can think about, and all that she thinks anyone else can see when they look at her. After months of hiding out...
- Author:Berg, ElizabethSummary:
A life-affirming novel about an unforgettable character, a wise and loving man whose humor and unconditional love create for himself and others second chances at happiness. Three people find their way back from loss and loneliness to a...
- Author:Skuy, DavidSummary:
Cody is no longer the kid with cancer, or the soccer player always sitting on the bench as a substitute. But just when he is getting used to being the striker on the Lions soccer team, as well as being friends with his teammates and a...
- Author:Freeman, MarthaSummary:
Eleven-year-old Dougie, living in California's Calaveras County, teams up with twelve-year-old Varloo, an emissary from a culture living in underground caves, and tries to help her people.
- Author:Garner, HelenSummary:
Winner of several prestigious prizes, The Spare Room is extraordinary writer Helen Garner's intense, moving investigation of the boundaries and limits of a lifelong friendship.As the novel opens, Helen lovingly prepares the spare room...
- Author:McDonnell, KathleenSummary:
Peggy is starting to outgrow Notherland, the imaginary world she created as a child, and wants to cut her ties - not knowing it will destroy Notherland completely.
- Author:Higgins, M. G.Summary:
Hi-Lo Chapter Books for Children. This series of short novels was designed to engage a broad spectrum of struggling readers. No longer will upper-elementary students have to read material junior to their maturity and interests....