11 year old Azalea and her family have been moving from place to place ever since she can remember, her dad moving from job to job. First it was a boutique for pets in Pennsylvania, then a buffet for breakfast in North Carolina... Now, after many more states and jobs, they have arrived in Portland, Maine. Azalea's dad is intent on driving a tour bus. She is sick of moving, and is determined to stay in Portland and finally have a place she can call home.
Fourteen-year-old Dani Burkhart hasn’t made the best decisions. After discovering her parents are getting a divorce, her life spins out of control. She blames her troublesome neighbor, Mr. Reiber, for her family’s problems. This drives her to vandalize his house. However, her sweet revenge backfires and she finds herself arrested.
Sephora Golding has always thought she would be a minor character in her mother’s fairy tale life. As a child, Sephora preferred staying away from the spotlight unlike her mother. But at sixteen, Sephora’s fairytale is more Grimm than Disney, and she begins to want more. Then Sephora meets Felix, who turns her life upside down.
Today, girls are told that they can be whatever they want. They can become authors or engineers; they can raise families or stay single; they can travel the world or get a Ph.D. Sita does not have those options in mid-nineteenth-century India. Her mother died years ago, her grandmother is a bitter schemer, and her father is deaf. Having narrowly escaped a brothel in her youth, she now trains to become a member of the queen’s Durga Dal.
Emma is a straight-A high school student with perfect attendance. She should be one of the top students in her school, but now she’s dropped from the best to the worst. Emma’s mother has passed away mentally but physically she is still around, being kept alive by machines. Her mother is brain-dead and pregnant. Emma is horrified by what has happened. Completely broken, Emma no longer cares about school or anything else.
The Year of Chasing Dreams by Lurlene McDaniel is about a woman, Ciana Beauchamp, who lives on the Beauchamp Estate with her mother and best friend, Eden. Ciana’s main goal is to secure her family farm, but she soon finds out it may be harder than she thought. Her old love interest, Jon Mercer, shows up to help, and Ciana can’t deny the feelings she still holds for him. Meanwhile, Eden is beginning a relationship as well, with an Australian man named Garret. Ciana’s top priorities in her life are her family and land.
A fifteen-year-old freshman, Shelly leads a unique life. Her brother Ian goes to an all Deaf school called Hawthorne that's two hours away. He only comes home on the weekends, and those weekends are filled with pointless arguments and agitations.
A creak sounds in the dragon Miss Drake’s den and a human walks in. This human named Winnie and Miss Drake have the adventure of their lives in A Dragon’s Guide to the Care and Feeding of Humans. Winnie barges into Miss Drake’s den the day after her great-aunt Amelia's funeral. Winnie thinks that Miss Drake is her pet, but Miss Drake thinks that Winnie is hers. Miss Drake and Winnie head to a shop for magicals, such as dragons and spirits. Winnie sees amazing creatures and wants to draw them.
Emma is thrown into a whirlwind of bewildering events when she seeks supernatural help to revive her boyfriend, who is cancer-ridden. Meanwhile, a peaceful extraterrestrial explorer crash-lands on her boyfriend's farm and possesses his comatose body. Soon, government agents start hunting the alien down, as well as anyone offering him assistance. In order to get her boyfriend back and safely return this alien visitor to his home planet, Emma and the alien embark on a thrilling adventure of courage, humanity, and friendship.
This book is about a girl named Toks. She is working as a research assistant for her college professor, Professor Johnson. Toks wants to redo a special project that didn’t turn out the first time, but Professor Johnson gives her a different project she is less eager to complete. Toks is definitely busy balancing this new project, her teaching, and her other classes. Yet she still wants to try that special project one more time…
