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4) Thunderwith
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
1991
Language
English
Description
After she moves to the Australian outback following her mother's death, fifteen-year-old Laura's friendship with a strange and beautiful dog helps her adjust to a new life with an unfamiliar father and unfriendly stepfamily.
5) Shrimp
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Back in San Francisco for her senior year in high school, seventeen-year-old Cyd attempts to reconcile with her boyfriend, Shrimp, making some girlfriends and beginning to feel more a part of her family in the process.
8) Ash
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
In this variation on the Cinderella story, Ash grows up believing in the fairy realm that the king and his philosophers have sought to suppress, until one day she must choose between a handsome fairy cursed to love her and the King's Huntress whom she loves.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Sent to stay with their uncle in a ship-like home called Drift House, twelve-year-old Susan and her two younger stepbrothers embark on an unexpected adventure involving duplicitous mermaids, pirates, and an attempt to stop time forever.
11) Girls out late
Author
Series
Girls quartet volume 3
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2002, c1999
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Ellie misses curfew by going to a park with a boy she just met, gets caught lying to her father and stepmother, and is put in a dangerous situation in London by her two best friends.
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Single mother Vida Avery, having earned a reputation as a strict, but brilliant English teacher at the private Maine academy where she has lived and worked for fifteen years, inexplicably agrees to marry a local widower with three children, and while her son Peter relishes the idea of a real home and family, Vida, never a fan of the real world, begins to self-destruct.
15) The wyrm king
Author
Series
Beyond the spiderwick chronicles volume 3
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Nick, Julies, Laurie, and their friends try to prevent a hydra from destroying Florida.
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Holtzbrinck Publishers
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Georgia, who loves horses as much as she hates her bullying stepbrother, buys a figurine of a winged horse and finds it has magical powers that transport her from present-day London to the sixteenth-century world of Talia where, in the city of Remora, similar to Sienna, Italy, she finds danger and intrigue as well as friendship and a chance to perfect her riding skills.
Author
Publisher
New York Review of Books
Pub. Date
[2010], c1960
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Edie, known for getting into scrapes, becomes a hero when she solves the mystery of who stole a neighbor's jewels, while spending the season at the family's summer house at the Massachusetts seashore in the early twentieth century.
18) Land of the buffalo bones: the diary of Mary Ann Elizabeth Rodgers, an English girl in Minnesota
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Polly Rodgers keeps a diary of her 1873 journey from England to Minnesota as part of a colony of eighty people seeking religious freedom, and of their first year struggling to make a life there, led by her father, a Baptist minister.
Author
Publisher
Tokyopop
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Returning home, Yuu reveals that he broke up with Miki because he's sure they have the same father. They decide they cannot deny their relationship, so they stay together but vow never to have children. When their family hears about this, they reveal the truth of Yuu's birth.
20) Spike it!
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
Unhappy at having to share space and family with her new stepsister Michaela when her father remarries, thirteen-year-old Jamie is further dismayed when Michaela joins her volleyball team and becomes a star player.
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