In Other People's Drama by Gregory Fletcher ,life has finally started to turn around for Brandon Filips. He's gone from constantly being bullied about being the biggest guy in school to having a great role in the school play, having a girlfriend, and actually having real friends. Not only that, but he has started to take better care of his body, allowing him to lose some weight and regain confidence in himself. But when drama ensues at an after-play cast party, Brandon's newly perfect life starts to fall apart.
Other People’s Drama is a book following Brandon Filips in his junior year of high school. This is a continuation of Brandon’s story from Other People’s Crazy, which follows Brandon through a difficult period of his life with bullies and a rabid dog. Now, however, Brandon’s life has done a complete 180 from last year. No longer is Brandon the shy kid with no friends, but now, Brandon has a girlfriend and an oddball best friend whose best traits are his height and his humor.
During the summer of 1963, Sophia goes through some serious growing up. She is the one who finds her older brother’s mutilated remains while spending time with her new friend, Sammie, while they were walking in the local woods. Life instantaneously changes for her and her family. Living in a racist community at that time in Marin County, California has the family extremely unsettled because the racism and destruction to the black community makes everyone edgy and fearful for their lives at every turn.
The Last Invention by Diane Lilli is foremost a story about sisters and their nearly unbreakable bond. Amanda and Emily have an enviable sisterhood, a bond like steel, forged by their indomitable mother. Their lives are very different, but their bond remains. Amanda is a successful businesswoman, married, and has a son. Emily was a successful athlete and has a joyful life. All is well until tragedy strikes. Heavy grief changes both sisters; that grief becomes an opportunity for one sister and makes the other vulnerable. Bonds between sisters can be broken—by death.
The Tear’s Tale is a genuine and wholesome story about a young teardrop who struggles with feelings. The book begins with the tear waking up late for the day and feeling stressed and unwell. Throughout the school day, the tear struggles even more with feeling overwhelmed, being ignored and left out by a friend, and falling on the way home from school. At home, the tear explodes with anger and emotion at dinner, and the tear’s mom is there to console and help the tear process their feelings.
Tag-a-long, or Tag for short, has never known anything except the inside of her home and the good-natured fun of her older sisters surrounding her, until one day when the dreaded winds come and take away her sisters. The youngers, or children, are not allowed to go outside, and Tag watches as her sisters break the rules and decide to go outside only to then become windswept to who knows where. For several years after her sisters disappear, Tag tries to put the pieces together about what really happened to them.
Maddy and Grace at the Haunted House is a thirty-page picture book the leads the girls to investigate a house that the kids at school say is haunted. They decide to investigate, find the house, and meet Eric who takes care of many properties in the area. He says he keeps his tools in a shed next to the house but never goes into the big “haunted” house. Maddy and Grace felt creepy just looking at the house from far off, but they wanted pictures. The door of the house was opened, and they froze at the sight and sound of a scary skeleton and a ghost.
University student, Paige Stewart’s boyfriend Samuel Saber, has broken up with her. As if that’s not bad enough, the story has spread throughout campus, and Paige is the source of public scorn for being dumped by the wealthy son of two of the most prominent individuals in South Coast. Paige confides in her best friend, Liam, and Nathaniel, who is Liam’s friend but not Paige’s.
