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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Simply Alice Simply Alice Phyllis Reynolds Naylor In her freshman year, fourteen-year-old Alice experiences changes and challenges with friends, family, and school activities, which leave her feeling better about herself than ever before. OL13431W
Undressing the moon Undressing the moon Greenwood, T. "As a child, Piper Kincaid always felt her mother was on the edge of leaving. And then the summer Piper turns fourteen, it really happens. Devastated by this loss, and the rejection she feels from he… OL16420813W
Paradise County Paradise County Karen Robards Left bankrupt after her billionaire father's sudden death, Alexandra Haywood returns to Shelby County, Kentucky -- that bit of Southern splendor known as Paradise County--to sell the family's magnifi… OL167251W
Shelter Shelter Frances Greenslade "A spellbinding and wise coming-of-age story SHELTER draws readers into the precarious world of two young sisters in search of their mother, and brings to life a breathtaking BC landscape. Maggie is … OL17873393W
Sugar and spice Sugar and spice Ruth Hamilton Anna MacRae's life is tragically changed after her mother dies in childbirth and she is left to cope with her twin sisters, who, through the years lead a life full of pranks, bullying, and stealing. OL17924650W
The sweetness at the bottom of the pie The sweetness at the bottom of the pie Alan Bradley Eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison, must exonerate her father of murder. Armed with more than enough knowledge to tie two distant deaths together and examin… OL18059710W
Night Fever Night Fever Diana Palmer At the tender age of twenty-four, Rebecca Cullen found life much too complicated. She worked a full-time job, raised her two teenage brothers, supported her retired grandfather and tended to their Ge… OL1902457W
My Absolute Darling: A Novel My Absolute Darling: A Novel Gabriel Tallent "Turtle Alveston is a survivor. At fourteen, she roams the woods along the northern California coast. The creeks, tide pools, and rocky islands are her haunts and her hiding grounds, and she is known… OL19353452W
Thurston House Thurston House Danielle Steel Jeremiah Thurston built Thurston House, San Francisco's grandest mansion. When he found himself alone with his infant daughter, Sabrina, he was determined to bring her up to run the biggest mining bu… OL19757W
The sweetness at the bottom of the pie The sweetness at the bottom of the pie Alan Bradley For very-nearly-eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, the discovery of a dead snipe on the doorstep of Buckshaw, the crumbling de Luce country seat, was a marvellous mystery - especially since this particu… OL21179432W
A family Christmas A family Christmas Katie Flynn Jimmy and Mo Trewin have been living with the cruel Mrs Huxtable since their mother died and their father left them. Life is miserable, but when Mrs Huxtable's brutal son returns home, they are force… OL22133430W
The boys are back in town The boys are back in town Simon Carr "How do you talk to a five-year-old boy when his mother's just died? How do you look after him? And how do you cope when your eleven-year-old son by a previous marriage comes to live with you too?"--… OL24190775W
Shelter Shelter Grances Greenslade Set forty years ago in Northern Canada SHELTER is the touching story of two girls, aged twelve and fourteen. Their mother was imaginative and wild, their father, 'Mr Safety', a logger who knew the wa… OL24298111W
Capture the Wind for Me Capture the Wind for Me Brandilyn Collins After her mama's death, sixteen-year-old Jackie Delham is left to run the household for her daddy and two younger siblings. When Katherine King breezes into town and tries to steal her daddy's heart,… OL24816508W
Her mother's shadow Her mother's shadow Diane Chamberlain ANNIEA loving mother and wife, Annie O'Neill was the heart of the small community of Kiss River. But her generous nature hid a darker side that remained secret for years after her tragic death.LACEYW… OL2571780W
White Is for Witching White Is for Witching Helen Oyeyemi "Miranda is at home -- homesick, home sick..." As a child, Miranda Silver developed pica, a rare eating disorder that causes its victims to consume nonedible substances. The death of her mother wh… OL5733334W
Peace like a river Peace like a river Leif Enger "Raised on tales of cowboys and pirates, eleven-year-old Reuben Land has little doubt that miracles happen all around us, and that it's up to us to "make of it what we will." Reuben was born with no … OL5956851W
Northanger Abbey Northanger Abbey Jane Austen Northanger Abbey is both a perfectly aimed literary parody and a withering satire of the commercial aspects of marriage among the English gentry at the turn of the nineteenth century. But most of all… OL66534W
Eggs Eggs Jerry Spinelli Nine-year-old David has recently lost his mother to a freak accident, his salesman father is constantly on the road, and he is letting his anger out on his grandmother. Sarcastic and bossy 13-year-ol… OL77094W