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Ada, Alma Flor.
Dancing Home
When Margie's cousin Lupe comes from Mexico to live in California with Margie's family, Lupe must adapt to America, while Margie, who thought it would be fun to have her cousin there, finds that she is embarrassed by her in school and jealous of her at home.
147 p. 2011
Children's Fiction Book
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Barnholdt, Lauren.
Girl Meets Ghost
"Seventh-grader Kendall can see dead people. Not only can she see them, she can speak to them. . . and they can speak to her. They want Kendall be a psychic sleuth and figure out what unresolved issues are keeping them from moving on" --Provided by publisher.
213 pages 2013
Children's Fiction Book
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Barrows, Annie.
The Magic Half
Eleven-year-old Miri Gill feels left out in her family, which has two sets of twins and her, until she travels back in time to 1935 and discovers Molly, her own lost twin, and brings her back to the present day.
211 p. 2008
Children's Fiction Book
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Birdsall, Jeanne.
The Penderwicks : a Summer Tale of Four Sisters Two Rabbits and a Very Interesting Boy
While vacationing with their widowed father in the Berkshire Mountains, four lovable sisters, ages four through twelve, share adventures with a local boy, much to the dismay of his snobbish mother.
262 p. 2005
Children's Fiction Book
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Burgis, Stephanie
Renegade Magic
Twelve-year-old Kat tries to use her untrained magical powers to prevent use of the wild magic of Sulis Minerva found in Bath, England, where Stepmama has brought the family in hopes of finding Kat's sister a proper match.
331 p. 2011
Children's Fiction Book
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Burnett, Frances Hodgson, 1849-1924
The Secret Garden
Ten-year-old Mary comes to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors and discovers an invalid cousin and the mysteries of a locked garden.
xiii, 386 p. 1999
Children's Fiction Book
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Cavanaugh, Nancy J.
This Journal Belongs to Ratchet
Homeschooled by her mechanic-environmentalist father, eleven-year-old Rachel "Ratchet" Vance records her efforts to make friends, save a park, remember her mother, and find her own definition of "normal."
307 pages 2013
Children's Fiction Book
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Curtis, Christopher Paul.
The Mighty Miss Malone
With love and determination befitting the "world's greatest family," twelve-year-old Deza Malone, her older brother Jimmie, and their parents endure tough times in Gary, Indiana, and later Flint, Michigan during the Great Depression.
307 p. 2012
Children's Fiction Book
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Dee, Barbara
Solving Zoe
Zoe's 6th grade year is marked by changing relationships with her fellow students, including her best friend, and a search for where she belongs.
230 p. 2009
Children's Fiction Book DEE
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Erdrich, Louise.
Chickadee
In 1866, Omakayas's son Chickadee is kidnapped by two ne'er-do-well brothers from his own tribe and must make a daring escape, forge unlikely friendships, and set out on an exciting and dangerous journey to get back home.
196 p. 2012
Children's Fiction Book
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Ferris, Jean
Once Upon a Marigold
A young man with a mysterious past and a penchant for inventing things leaves the troll who raised him, meets an unhappy princess he has loved from afar, and discovers a plot against her and her father.
266 p. 2002
Children's Fiction Book FERRIS
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Foley, Lizzie K.
Remarkable : a Novel
Ten-year-old Jane Doe, the only student average enough to be excluded from the town of Remarkable's School for the Remarkably Gifted, is joined at her public school by the trouble-making Grimlet twins, who lead her on a series of adventures involving an out-of-control science fair project, a pirate captain on the run from a mutinous crew, a lonely dentist, and a newly constructed bell tower that endangers Remarkable's most beloved inhabitant--a skittish lake monster named Lucky.
325 p. 2012
Children's Fiction Book
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Frazier, Angie
The Mastermind Plot
In 1904, eleven-year-old Suzanna is delighted with her grandmother's invitation to spend time in Boston and thrilled to help her famous uncle investigate a series of arsons, but much less pleased to be enrolled in Miss Lydia Doucette's Academy for Young Ladies.
231 p. 2012
Children's Fiction Book
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Friend, Catherine.
Barn Boot Blues
When her parents swap urban life in Minneapolis for rural life on a farm 100 miles away, twelve-year-old Taylor feels as if she is living on another planet.
142 p. 2011
Children's Fiction Book
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Giff, Patricia Reilly
Pictures of Hollis Woods
A troublesome twelve-year-old orphan, staying with an elderly artist who needs her, remembers the only other time she was happy in a foster home, with a family that truly seemed to care about her.
166 p. 2002
Children's Fiction Book
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Hahn, Mary Downing.
All the Lovely Bad Ones : a Ghost Story
While spending the summer at their grandmother's Vermont inn, two prankster siblings awaken young ghosts from the inn's distant past who refuse to "rest in peace."
182 p. 2008
Children's Fiction Book
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Harrison, Michelle
13 Treasures
Bedeviled by evil fairies that only she can see, thirteen-year-old Tanya is sent to stay with her cold and distant grandmother at Elvesden Manor, where she and the caretaker's son solve a disturbing mystery that leads them to the discovery that Tanya's life is in danger.
355 p. 2010
Children's Fiction Book HARRISO
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Henkes, Kevin.
Junonia
The week of her tenth birthday, Alice and her parents go to Sanibel Island, Florida, just as they do every year, but this time some of the people who are always there are missing and some new people have come, which unsettles Alice, who wants things to be exactly the same as they alway are.
176 p. 2011
Children's Fiction Book
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Holm, Jennifer L.
Turtle in Paradise
In 1935, when her mother gets a job housekeeping for a woman who does not like children, eleven-year-old Turtle is sent to stay with relatives she has never met in far away Key West, Florida.
191 p. 2010
Children's Fiction Book
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Horvath, Polly
My One Hundred Adventures
Twelve-year-old Jane, who lives at the beach in a run-down old house, is determined to have adventures. In one eventful summer, she accompanies her zany pastor on bible deliveries, meets former boyfriends of her mother's, and is coerced into babysitting for a family of ill-mannered children.
260 p. 2008
Children's Fiction Book HORVATH
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