In The Secret Life Of Lincoln Jones, eleven-year-old Lincoln, a shy and reserved loner, has to move away with his mother to a worn-down apartment with little money. Lincoln’s mother works in an “old folks’ home,” as he likes to call it. He has to go there every day after school, and the days just seem to drag on forever. Things just never seem to go right for him, not to mention the bullies on the bus and his new school stalker…Kandi Kain.
It’s 1957 and seven-year-old Alex, the main character in A Jar Full of Angel Feathers by Susan Russell, has just lost his mother. Even worse, his father wants to start a new life, so he sends Alex from their home in London to live in Cornwall with his Aunt Mary for a year. Alex isn’t used to the quiet countryside. He desperately misses both his parents and the hustle and bustle of the city.
It is 1982 in Southern California, and fourteen-year-old musical prodigy, Todd Williams, is experiencing typical coming of age confusion, conflict, and distress. The otherworldly additions to these experiences, however, are hardly typical.
Twelve-year-old Toby Roberts, the main character in The Magicians Convention by Elena Paige, is sure that magic isn’t real. But one morning while looking out his bedroom window, Toby sees hundreds of people clad in black cloaks and top hats streaming into his neighbor’s tiny house. Stranger yet, his grandpa swears he doesn’t see anyone at all.
Alberto is a lonely old man living in the town of Allora as the town’s only coffin maker. He is given the bodies of Allora’s dead so that he can build them their coffins and place them into their graves. One day, a bird Alberto has never seen before flutters into his home. This bird is soon followed by Tito – a lonely little boy whose existence was never known to Alberto. Alberto finds Tito to be great company, but no matter what, Alberto cannot get Tito to open up to him. Tito is scared and very cautious, but of what? Alberto is not sure.
This book was about a girl who lost her mother at a young age. But how does she have memories of her? This is her deepest secret, but what if someone has a problem similar to her own? Can she put aside all she's used to and trust someone? Is a friendship strong enough to make her realize the thing she wanted most wasn't all it was cracked up to be?
