Children & Young Adults Fiction - Social Issues - New Experience

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Adios to My Old Life

Caridad Ferrer

Tiring of unpromising party and holiday jobs while longing for fame, seventeen-year-old Latina singer and guitarist Ali Montero competes in a Latin superstar contest and finds herself overwhelmed by an ensuing maelstrom of glitzy ward...

Paperback
Published: Jul 2006

Princess in Training: Princess Diarie...

Meg Cabot

With Michael, her geeky but gorgeous boyfriend, at Columbia Mia is sure there's absolutely nothing to look forward to in 10th grade. She discovers just how wrong she is when best friend Lily's nomination forces Mia to run against arch...

Unabridged CD
Published: Apr 2005

How to Ruin a Summer Vacation

Simone Elkeles

Going to Israel with her estranged father is the last thing Amy wants to do this summer. A spoiled American teenager with an attitude that matches her killer Jimmy Choo slides, she's got a serious grudge against her dad, a.k.a Sperm D...

Paperback
Published: Oct 2006

Meridian

Amber Kizer

Half-human, half-angel, Meridian Sozu has a dark responsibility.Sixteen-year-old Meridian has been surrounded by death ever since she can remember. As a child, insects, mice, and salamanders would burrow into her bedclothes and die. A...

Paperback
Published: Aug 2010

The Nine Lives of Chloe King: The Fal...

Celia Thomson

Chloe King is a normal girl. She goes to class (most of the time), fights with her mom, and crushes on a boy…or two. But around her sixteenth birthday, Chloe finds that perhaps she isn't so normal after all. There's the heightened n...

Paperback
Published: Jun 2011

Mosquitoland

David Arnold

"Top-notch" —USA Today"Illuminating" —Washington Post"A breath of fresh air" —Entertainment Weekly"Memorable" —People After the sudden collapse of her family, Mim Malone is dragged from...

Paperback
Published: Mar 2016

Best Family Ever (A Baxter Family Chi...

Karen Kingsbury

Much-loved storyteller Karen Kingsbury's Baxter Family books have captured the hearts of millions who have come to think of the Baxter family as their own. Now Karen Kingsbury and her son Tyler Russell tell the childhood stories of th...

Paperback
Published: Jan 2020

Watch Me

Lauren Barnholdt

She thinks she has nothing to hide? Ally has everything under control. She's about to move into a house full of strangers and have her life broadcast to the world, but as long as she still has her long-distance boyfriend, Corey, nothi...

Unabridged CD
Published: Feb 2011

A World of Trouble

T. R. Burns

Sometimes you find trouble, and sometimes trouble finds you. The mischief continues in the second book of a trouble-loving middle grade series!It's Seamus Hinkle's second semester at Kilter Academy, where he's quickly become an ace tr...

Paperback
Published: May 2014

The Friendship War

Andrew Clements

A fabulous school story about fads and friendship from the bestselling author of Frindle.This is war. Okay--that's too dramatic. But no matter what this is called, so far I'm winning.And it feels wonderful.Grace and Ellie have been be...

Paperback
Published: Jan 2020

Family Trip (Peppa Pig)

Eone

Peppa Pig and her family are going on a trip to Italy. They pack their bags, fly on an airplane, meet a new friend, and even learn how pizza is made! But what will happen when Peppa keeps leaving her teddy bear behind everywhere they ...

Paperback
Published: May 2018

Danger Signals

Focus on the Family

There's never a dull moment in Odyssey! Join Whit and the gang in the latest collection of stories from the popular Adventures in Odyssey. radio show. With each story centering around a critical moment that could be a "Danger Sig...

Abridged CD
Published: Aug 2001

Completely Clementine (A Clementine B...

Sara Pennypacker

Summer is coming, and Clementine is not ready. She is not ready to start speaking to her father again, because she's still mad at him for eating meat. Instead, she has to express her sadness by giving him drawings of animals she knows...

Paperback
Published: Mar 2016

Don't You Wish

Roxanne St Claire

Alternate universes exist! Perfect for moviegoers who loved 17 Again, Sliding Doors, and The Family Man, as well as the novel Before I Fall.When plain and unpopular Annie Nutter gets zapped by one of her dad's whacked-out inventions, ...

Paperback
Published: Jul 2013

Afterworlds

Scott Westerfeld

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Scott Westerfeld comes a "masterful" (Cory Doctorow) novel-within-a-novel that you won't be able to put down.Darcy Patel has put college on hold to publish her teen novel, Afterw...

Paperback
Published: Sep 2015

I Am Too Absolutely Small for School ...

Lauren Child

'The children's relationship is refreshingly noncombative, with Charlie as the protective and affectionate older brother who is appreciative of, rather than annoyed by, his sister's quirkiness.' - SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL (starred revi...

Paperback
Published: Aug 2005

Bebe Goes Shopping

Susan Middleton Elya

A quick trip to the supermercado? Not with Bebe in the shopping cart. Just as Mama is ready to throw up her manos, she gives sweet Bebe a box of animal cookies. A dulce, at last! Then they're off to the checkout line, smiling all the ...

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Published: Apr 2008

Roller Coaster

Marla Frazee

Clickity, clackity.Clickity, clackity.The roller coaster car is going up, up, up to the highest spot. And at least one of the people in the car has never ridden on a roller coaster before . . . ever. Wheeeeeeee!

Paperback
Published: Jun 2006

Arthur, For the Very First Time

Patricia MacLachlan

Arthur Rasby is ten years old and having the worst summer of his life. His parents don't listen to him, so he writes everything down -- everything that's real -- in his journal. But when he goes to stay with his Great-Aunt Elda and Gr...

Paperback
Published: Feb 1989

The Long Way to a New Land (I Can Rea...

Joan Sandin

'We will go to America!' It is 1868, and Carl Erik's family faces starvation in Sweden. As their hopes fade, they must endure a journey over land and sea to reach a better life in a new country thousands of miles away.

Paperback
Published: May 1986

Rainbow Joe and Me

Maria Diaz Strom

Eloise is a young artist who loves to mix colors. Sitting on the front stoop of her house, she tells her neighbor, Rainbow Joe, how she combines red and white to make fish, and red and blue to make monkeys. Rainbow Joe explains that e...

Paperback
Published: Jan 1999

Gila Monsters Meet You At the Airport...

Marjorie Weinman Sharmat

A young boy who must move from New York out West really believes that 'Gila monsters meet you at the airport.' Three-color illustrations.

Paperback
Published: Mar 1990

Mittens (My First I Can Read)

Lola M. Schaefer

Mittens is a small, shy kitten in a big, new house. Will he find a place just for him?

Paperback
Published: May 2007

Raccoon On His Own (Picture Puffins)

Jim Arnosky

When a baby raccoon is swept downstream in an abandoned canoe, he feels afraid. But soon he notices all kinds of things he has never seen before, and from the safety of his little boat, he begins to explore the world around him. Paral...

Paperback
Published: Jun 2003

Biscuit's First Sleepover

Alyssa Satin Capucilli

Woof! IIt's time for a sleepover! Will Biscuit ever be able to get to sleep? IIt's fun to have a sleepover with friends! Have more fun with Biscuit!

Paperback
Published: Jun 2008

Ira Says Goodbye

Bernard Waber

Ira confronts several emotions when he learns his best friend Reggie is moving away.

Paperback
Published: Apr 1991

The Face on the Milk Carton

Caroline B. Cooney

Recognizing herself as the missing child on a school milk carton, Janie is compelled to investigate and has to choose between her love for the people she has always known as her parents and needing to learn the truth. Reissue.

Paperback
Published: Apr 1991

Killing Miss Kitty and Other Sins

Marion Dane Bauer

The time is 1950. The place is a small town in the Midwest. The girl is Claire, and she has a new black friend. But in an all-white town, how open can the girls be about their friendship?Now Claire faces being the 'new girl' in school...

Paperback
Published: Nov 2008

Amber Brown Is Not A Crayon

Paula Danziger

Amber Brown and Justin Daniels are best friends. They've known each other for practically forever, sit next to each other in class, help each other with homework, and always stick up for each other. Justin never says things like, '...

Paperback
Published: Sep 2006

The Berenstain Bears' Moving Day (Fir...

Stan Berenstain

This is the story of the Bear family's move to their now-famous tree house in Bear Country. Would Brother Bear like it? Would he find new friends? He wasn't sure until he got there.

Paperback
Published: Jan 1981
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