Orion Poe has a pretty boring life in eastern Maine—helping his cantankerous old grandpa, exploring the forest next to his cabin, and playing on the banks of the ocean, wishing something exciting would happen. Incidentally, the ocean is where his life is turned upside down after a small ship crashes into the cove near his house, bringing a mysterious Mr.
The book, The Secrets of Tree Taylor by Dandi Daley Mackall is about a 13 year old girl, Tree, and it follows her throughout the summer of 1963. Tree has created two goals for herself to complete before the summer is over: receive her first kiss and land a spot on her high school newspaper staff.
The Seasons Of Raina by Millissa Nelson illustrates the challenges of fitting in to a new place and doing the right thing even though it may be hard. When Raina is bullied at her school in Denver, she realizes that if she stays, life will be miserable until high-school is over, and that she needs to spend some time away. Her parents send her to Minnesota to live with her aunt and uncle and their eight kids.
Gabriel Adam is like any normal teenager. The only thing different about him is that he moves around a lot. That is until he is told that he is an angel that has to save the world. Gabriel then is launched into this battle between good and evil to save the world. Along the way he meets challenges and people that will test him to his limits. Do you want to follow Gabriel in his thrill ride battle against evil?
Discovering that you are not alone in your battles is sometimes a relief - or not. Close by Erika Raskin does just that by revealing the imperfections of the Marcheson family. This book tells a poignant and edgy story of a divorced-family dynamic through complex characters and the real life struggles of parenting and adolescence. While trying to get help for the Marcheson daughters this family experiences something that will shock you.
Gus, Leo, and Ila live a very normal life until one day, Leo is swimming one hundred meters and he doesn’t need to come up for air at all. All of the sudden, things get really weird. Their mother gets very ill.
Nicolo was a normal teenager, until his family died of malaria. After they died, Nicolo had to go from his family's home into the streets of Venice. He has only one possession: a magical clarinet. Nicolo plays it in the street and is one day noticed by Luce, a manager for an orphanage of the musically gifted. There is one problem though: the orphanage is an all girls orphanage, where no boys are permitted. Nicolo decides that rather than living in the streets of Venice playing his clarinet for money that he will suck up his pride and pose as a girl.
The book If you Find me by Emily Murdoch is about two girls who spent the better part of their life living in the woods with their mother. When their mother leaves and does not come back, the eldest girl, Carrey, is forced to take care of her younger sister, Jenessa on her own. Then, after a few months their father finds them and takes them home with him. The girls have the new challenge of adjusting to their new life of a new stepsister, stepmother and father that Carey has always been told hurt her and Jenessa. Carey tries to learn who she can trust with her
In this book, the main character, Nina, just got out of school for the summer. While she is lying in her backyard, she gets a feeling that she needs to do something good this summer. Nina then makes a plan of how she will complete her good things. This is how it works: she needs to do 65 good things, she needs to stay anonymous, and she needs to do one good things for each house/family in her culd-a-sac.
