This autobiographical book is about a girl, Alma, who grows up in the Cuban countryside and who learns to face social problems such as local crime.
She has a blind great grandmother who teaches her about generosity and wisdom. A caretaker burns his hand but every day he still tries to make music. The parents talk about the War (World War II).
Fairalon is a delightful fantasy novel that will most likely appeal to preteen girls. The main character, Iris, is unhappy after losing both her mother and grandmother within a two year period. She has been having very strange things happen to her. When she shares these visions with her father, he thinks she is crazy and takes her to see a doctor. Iris ends up finding out that she is very special (not crazy) and her grandmother knew it all along! When her grandmother died, she left all of her possessions to Iris on the condition that Iris moves into her home.
Amanda Walsh, a hopeful artist with very low self-esteem, goes by Zero. She expects her summer to be simple and spent having fun with her best friend. But it goes a little something like this: Zero and her best friend get in a fight and decide not to be friends anymore, Zero gets into her dream college, and she falls in love.
Mia is a gifted teenager. But this is not any sort of typical talent, as she is able to communicate with the dead. Because of these powers, she is sent to a camp with others who are gifted just like her. Once there, she meets a boy named TC, and they become good friends. Together they do many things, including kiss and talk about their psychic abilities, which they refer to as their "sidekicks." They wish to stay together forever, but they have to continue on with their normal lives eventually.
This is the 2nd title in the Dragon's Guide series.
In this story, Miss Drake (the dragon) wants to teach 11 year old Winnie (the human) about the magical world. She enrolls Winnie in Spriggs Academy, a magical school. This school is for magical beings and for humans. Winnie quickly takes a shine to it, and enjoys learning from famous individuals like Sir Isaac Newton and taking field trips to Loch Ness.
Somewhere in the Middle is a story about Everly Sayers, a 17-year-old girl who has given up on high school boys and is focusing on her friends and family. That is, until Roone Thorsen arrives in school and flips her world upside down.
Neither Roone nor Everly want to be in a relationship but are constantly being asked out. To counteract this, they decide to be in a fake relationship and convince everybody they are a couple. But as Roone and Everly grow closer, they become more and more invested in their relationship.
Cousins William and Maxine think they are going to be spending the Summer of 1929 on a boring visit with a grandfather they have never met. They quickly find out that he is not your average grandfather.
The two of them are swept up in an adventure that has them wandering through the streets of New York trying to find and rescue their grandfather from strange, foreign and deadly men called the Hashashin who work for a mysterious, Old Man on the Mountain. The Old Man wants to obtain an elusive and magical treasure, The Eye of Midnight.
If you would like to learn a little bit about how to act around horses or how to teach a horse to be used to human contact then this is a good book for you.
It is a little unique because the first part of the story is written in the point of view of the main character, an 11 year old named Pip. She desperately wanted a horse. When she finally received one from her father, she desperately wanted to be friends with it. She became easily discouraged when the horse would not warm up to her and often ran away from her.
According to Eden's mother, Eden can't do anything right. Eden has learned to deal with it; what else is she supposed to do? She can't deal with the constant fighting between her parents and escapes them by hanging out in an abandoned house. She hopes that her parents will love her one day, even though she's not sure what love is. Murphy, Toby, and Josh are three other teens that hang out at the abandoned house. They teach her how to have faith in herself and show her that she can do something right. Will these boys' love save her broken life?
