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...
Teenage girls
- Author:Berg, ElizabethSummary:
- 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:Sharafeddine, FatimaSummary:
Faten’s happy life in her village comes to an abrupt end when her father arranges for her to work as a servant for a wealthy Beirut family with two spoiled daughters. What does a bright, ambitious seventeen-year-old do when she is...
- Author:KIDD, Sue MonkSummary:
Living on a peach farm in South Carolina with her harsh, unyielding father, Lily Owens has shaped her entire life around one devastating, blurred memory - the afternoon her mother was killed, when Lily was four. Since then, her only...
- Author:Browne, Susan ChalkerSummary:
It’s the year of our Lord 1971, and Maureen O’Neill is one of the smartest girls at Fatima Academy. One of the funniest, too. Her teachers don’t like it, but her friends think she’s a riot. But one day her world begins to crumble apart...
- Author:Mangum, Kay LynnSummary:
Kathy Colton's brother, Brett, died of leukemia when he was seventeen and she only two. At age 16 she discovers a journal Brett wrote especially for her. Brett's story is interwoven with her own, as she is mortified to be assigned to...
- Author:Sumner, MelanieSummary:
Although Louise Peppers' family is a bit eccentric and dysfunctional, they are also loving and supportive. In conventional Counterpoint, Georgia, Louise grows up to be a "normal" teen. But after the accidental death of...
- Author:Ravel, EdeetSummary:
Seventeen-year-old Fern has not had many breaks in life. She struggles at school and lives with her mother in a roach-infested apartment. Then, suddenly, her mother has a heart attack and dies, and Fern is devastated. But she's a...
- Author:Guertin, ChantelSummary:
A fresh voice in YA fiction brings a charming heroine to life in this series debut
Sixteen–year–old Pippa Greene never goes anywhere without her camera. She and her best friend/supermodel–in–training Dace long ago mapped...
- Author:Pullman, PhilipSummary:
In nineteenth-century London, sixteen-year-old Sally, a recent orphan, becomes involved in a deadly search for a mysterious ruby.
- Author:Jensen, LizSummary:
After recuperating from a horrendous car accident, Gabrielle Fox longs to rebuild her life and begins a new job at a psychiatric hospital for violent children. But when she meets a patient named Bethany, Gabrielle is intrigued by her...
- Author:Ross, RebeccaSummary:
Grave Mercy meets Red Queen in this epic debut fantasy, inspired by Renaissance France, about an outcast who finds herself bound to a disgraced lord and entangled in his plot to overthrow the current king. Brienna desires only two...
- Author:Ross, RebeccaSummary:
Brienna is a mistress of knowledge and is beginning to settle into her role as the daughter of the once disgraced lord, Davin MacQuinn. Though she'd just survived a revolution that will return a queen to the throne, she faces yet...
- Author:Alderman, NaomiSummary:
One of the New York Times's Ten Best Books of 2017A Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2017. One of the Washington Post's Ten Best Books of 2017. An NPR Best Book of 2017. One of Entertainment Weekly's Ten Best Books of 2017. A Bustle Best...
- Author:Acevedo, ElizabethSummary:
"Crackles with energy and snaps with authenticity and voice." -Justina Ireland, author of Dread Nation "An incredibly potent debut." -Jason Reynolds, author of the National Book Award Finalist Ghost "Acevedo has amplified the voices of...
- Author:Otte, KristenSummary:
On a quest for truth, one girl will find more than she bargained for. Sixteen-year-old Rachel Brandt is excited about her six-month anniversary with her boyfriend Brent, getting her driver's license and competing for a district...
- Author:Otte, KristenSummary:
On a quest for truth, one girl will find more than she bargained for... Sixteen-year-old Rachel Brandt is excited about her six-month anniversary with her boyfriend, Brent, getting her driver's license, and competing for a district...
- Author:Bow, PatriciaSummary:
Presenting the two novels in the Mythrin fantasy series, all about Amelia Hammer's adventures in another world. Amelia's globe-trotting parents have dumped her in tiny, boring Dunstone in the middle of winter with her grandmother and...
- Author:Buchanan, Cathy MarieSummary:
Set at a moment of profound artistic, cultural, and societal change--Paris in 1878--The Painted Girls is ultimately a tale of two remarkable girls rendered uniquely vulnerable to the darker impulses of "civilized society."
- Author:Goobie, BethSummary:
She hadn't told anyone. Not a single soul. Not one word about that night and what had been done to her had ever passed Maddy Malone's lips. She'd thought about it at first - had been desperate, even frantic, to tell. But then had come...