Webb's abusive stepfather has made it impossible for him to live at home, so Webb survives on the streets by busking with his guitar and working as a dishwasher. When Webb's grandfather dies, his will stipulates that his...
Juvenile fiction
- Author:Brouwer, SigmundSummary:
- Author:Martin, C. K. KellySummary:
Ivy's summer isn't going at all the way she'd been hoping, and the boyfriend she thought would love her forever turned out to be really sleazy. Ivy finds solace in Lucan, a new best friend who turns out to be a distant...
- Author:Avey, PenSummary:
Dethbert Jones is your average ten-year-old – only he lives on the planet Crank with his pet chicken-snail and his robot best friend Andi Social. When he and Andi join the Space Cadets, a Scouts-like organization, they are totally...
- Author:Powell, RandySummary:
Although he's only just graduated from high school, 18-year-old Dean Duffy thinks of himself as a has-been. Mired in an inexplicable and frustrating two-year batting slump, he helplessly watches as a once-promising baseball career...
- Author:Wrede, Patricia C.Summary:
- Author:Lester, JuliusSummary:
Emma has taken care of the Butler children since Sarah and Frances's mother, Fanny, left. Emma wants to raise the girls to have good hearts, as a rift over slavery has ripped the Butler household apart. Now, to pay off debts,...
- Author:Cronin, DoreenSummary:
The Chicken Squad is back for their fourth (mis)adventure, and this time they're facing their darkest mystery yet: shadows! A hilarious, "easy to read" (Booklist) chapter book from the bestselling author of Click, Clack,...
- Author:Paulsen, GarySummary:
When the camp van crashes into a raging river, Daniel has some tough choices to make. He could save himself, or risk everything in an attempt to save his campmates who have made fun of him from the beginning.
- Author:Lynch, ChrisSummary:
It's biology vs. technology. Zane lives a life of luxury in a completely wired world. He doesn't ever have to leave his building in order to have exciting (virtual) experiences. Even his pets are wired so they can talk to him, making...
- Author:Yolen, JaneSummary:
Accident-prone, thirteen-year-old Gorse, the youngest fairy in her family, falls into a trap while on her way to the palace to bless the newborn princess, Talia, but arrives in time to give a gift which, although seemingly horrific, may...
- Author:Atkinson, DaveSummary:
- Author:Berk, SherylSummary:
Keep calm and bake on... Kylie and her cupcaking friends are finally graduating from Blakely Elementary! The other girls of Peace, Love, and Cupcakes are feeling sentimental, but Kylie's all about looking toward the future. After...
- Author:Horowitz, AnthonySummary:
Alex Rider does battle with a charity broker con artist who has invested millions of dollars in a form of genetically modified corn that can release an airborne strain of virus capable of knocking out an entire country in one day.
- Author:Spinelli, JerrySummary:
Crash Coogan is a big jock. As long as he can remember, he has crashed through life, running over anyone or anything that stands in his way. So when the geeky pacifist kid Penn Webb moves onto his block, Crash immediately ridicules...
- Author:Olsen, SylviaSummary:
Counting on Hope tells the story of an English girl named Hope and a Lamalcha girl named Letia, whose lives are profoundly changed when their two cultures collide.
- Author:Pennypacker, SaraSummary:
Clementine is having a feud with her father - she's so mad she can't even speak to him. Besides that, she has to deal with the end of the school year and all the goodbyes she must say - Clementine does N-O-T, not like saying...
- Author:McClintock, NorahSummary:
No one is more surprised than Rennie to hear that his late grandfather, whom he hardly knew, has left a mission for him to fulfill. Rennie is to fly to Iceland and deliver a message from beyond the grave, but when he gets there, nothing...
- Author:DiPucchio, Kelly S.Summary:
While newer, fancier robots are quickly purchased, Clink, an old-fashioned robot who can only make toast and music, gathers dust and feels downhearted until a young boy enters the shop looking for something special.
- Author:Wallace, Barbara BrooksSummary:
An eleven-year-old girl, Claudia's parents tell her, should not still be playing with an eight-year-old boy, and from there things go from bad to worse for tomboy Claudia.
- Author:Rodda, EmilySummary:
Lief, Barda, and Jasmine have succeeded in finding the golden topaz and the great ruby gems of the magic Belt of Deltora. The gems have strengthened them and given them courage to move on to find the third stone. But none of them knows...