Deza Malone, the main character in The MightyMiss Malone is an enthusiastic, realistic little black girl living through the great depression. Her mom holds a job, but her dad can’t find work. Deza sees herself as a great author and a girl who will go far in life.
Seven Stories Up by Laurel Snyder was about a girl named Annie who meets her grandma for the first time, and her grandma seems mad. When Annie goes to bed that night she puts on her grandma's old sleeping mask, and when she wakes up...she's in 1937. She's in a girl named Mary's room, but Mary likes to be called Molly. Annie realizes Molly is her grandma when her grandma was her age.
Maya is a creature of the night, a predator that has a story to tell. Her lover and master is Marek, the man that gave her a new beginning when she was at her end. As these two grow closer, Maya discovers just how dangerous Marek’s family really is under the façade they have been living. Unable to live as a true monster she does the one thing that will cause her to run from the past until her very death: Betray Marek.
Kaleidoscope Me is a novel about life after the death of a loved one and learning to grow and accept change. Jadyn and her younger brother, Trenton, are left reeling after a car crash kills their mother. Their father invites aging Aunt Nadine to live with them. Jadyn isn't sure of Aunt Nadine's mental stability, and so she tries to have Aunt Nadine sent away and lies about her aunt to her best friend, Ellie. Jadyn eventually sees that her actions are wrong, but she doesn't know what to do to fix things.
This book is about a boy named Jake who lives in a small town near the ocean in Narragansett Rhode Island. Jake will make you root for him from the very first chapter.
Kaleidoscope Me by Hillary K. Grigonis is about a fourteen year old girl, Jadyn, whose mom died 2 years ago. In result of her mom’s death, Jadyn’s dad invites their crazy Great-Aunt Nadine to watch over her and her brother while he is at work, but it seems she does just the opposite. Aunt Nadine isn’t always ‘all there’, and will frequently believe she is in another place or time. When Aunt Nadine takes Jayden’s little brother, Trenton, out in a snowstorm and disappears, Jayden takes things into her own hands to find them.
Laila is the teenaged daughter of the king of a Middle Eastern country. At least, that's what she thought. Following her father's death, she and her family are relocated to America with none of the luxuries they are used to. Once privileged and now living in a cramped apartment, Laila is the Invisible Queen and her brother the King of Nowhere.
Guiamo Durmius Stolo is an orphan whose uncle and aunt abandon him because of lack of money and food. A man named Calidius finds and raises him, and teaches him how to fish. Calidius soon learns of Guiamo's intelligence and creativity after Guiamo builds a trap for fish. Calidius sends Guiamo to his friend, Gabinius, to teach Guiamo furthermore. Gabinius teaches Guiamo hunting, letters, numbers, etc. Gabinius learns of a prophecy that connects with Guiamo and finds out that Guiamo is the son of Mars. He acquires Mars' original spear, Lúin.
In this story, there is a mystery about a green gas that people can see if they fart.The story begins with just a normal boy named Julius, who is not that great at typical academic school subjects. He lives in a family where his father has just gotten divorced and this makes him upset. But as the story develops, he finds himself solving a mystery with a strange person who acts like a zombie. Towards the end he tries everything to enter his theories of the case.
