Halley and Scarlett have been best friends since they were eleven years old.Scarlett was always the strong one.After Scarlett’s boyfriend dies, she discovers she is pregnant.Now Scarlett needs Halley to be strong for her.
The summer before junior year, everything changed for Haley and Scarlett.They have been best friends since sixth grade.Halley was known as, “Scarlett’s friend” because she was quieter than her best friend.Scarlett was the responsible one that always knew what to do when things got tough.When Scarlett’s boyfriend dies in a Motorcycle accident, he leaves her alone and pregnant.Can Halley now give Scarlett the support that she has always given her?How do relationships change when you become pregnant at sixteen?
Grade 7-12
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Bryce Loski moved in across the street from Juli Baker the summer before second grade. Nothing would ever be the same for either of them.Read as Bryce and Juli tell their side of the story in alternating chapters.
Juli Baker flipped when Bryce Loski moved in the summer before second grade.His blue eyes mesmerized her.Bryce did not know what to do when this lunatic from across the street invaded his life on moving day.The Bakers and the Loski’s don’t have much in common. Slowly Juli and Bryce learn new things about their families and each other. See how Juli and Bryce both flip and see which side the land on.
Grade 6-9
2004 - California Young Reader Medal
2004 - Nevada Young Readers Award
2003 - Virginia Young Readers Program Award
What is it like to be a fourteen-year-old British girl?Read along in Georgia Nicolson’s diary to find out the importance of Angus, thongs and full-frontal snogging.
At fourteen you find out how embarrassing your family is and how confusing it is to be a teenage girl. Georgia Nicolson confesses all of her thoughts in her diary.From page 3:
“There are six things very wrong with my life:
(1) I have one of those under-the-skin spots that will never come to a head but lurk in a red way for the next
two years.
(2) It is on my nose.
(3) I have a three-year-old sister who may have peed somewhere in my room.
(4) In fourteen days the summer hols will be over and then it will be back to Stalag 14 and Oberfuhrer Fray Simpson and her bunch of sadistic “teachers”.
(5) I am very ugly and need to go into an ugly home.
(6) I went to a party dressed as a stuffed olive.”
Georgia’s world is surrounded by and interesting cast of characters including: her parents, Uncle Eddie, her younger sister Libby, her best friend Jas, her school friends Ellen & Julia, her cat (a combination of domestic tabby and half Scottish wildcat), Mr. & Mrs. Next Door (that hate her cat) and the school bullies Alison Peters and Jackie Mathews. Don’t forget the guys that spice things up: Cousin James, Tom and Robbie Jennings, Peter Dyer (the professional kisser), Sven, Mark (bonfire boy). Enjoy the adventures that Georgia and her friends at the Latimer and RidgleySchool for girls have dealing with their uniforms, each other, the boys at FoxwoodSchool and the Stiff Dylans band.
Grade 7-9
This book is like a teenage version of Bridget Jones’ Diary. The author provides a helpful glossary in the back of the book to explain British expressions to her, “American-type chums”.
Annisa Gobrowski was the new girl on the Sand Dune High School Fighting Crabs cheerleading squad. Will they let the Jersey Girl with the brown hair ruin the look of the team or make her bleach her hair in the name of team unity?
After moving from New Jersey to Florida Annisa Gobrowski made the Sand Dune High School Fighting Crabs varsity cheerleading squad. Not only is she the new cheerleader from out of town, she is also the only non-blonde on the team. As they are preparing for the National competition a suggestion is made that Annisa should dye her hair blonde for Nationals. Are they serious?She also has to deal with troubles between her maybe-boyfriend and his ex-girlfriend that is on the squad, and the High School newspaper reporter that printed a very unflattering picture of her and is now stalking her to get an interview. If things haven’t gotten strange enough she is surprised at Nationals when her best friend and her ex-squad show up for the competition! From page 85:
“I blushed painfully.Suddenly I felt as if I were in the middle of a bad West Side Story remake. I looked from one glowering squad to the other and back again, imagining them decked out in cheerleading uniforms and leather jackets, instead of blades they had poms. And instead of pipes they wielded megaphones.”
What choices will Annisa make? What will happen when her old squad meets her new squad?
Grade 7-10
This is a fun interesting backstage look at a cheerleading squad that shows all the things that have to be considered when preparing for a competition.
Ama, Polly and Jo have known each other since their first day in third grade. In sixth grade they learned about the legend of the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants because the girls went to their local High School. Could their friendship carry the same magic?
Ama, Polly and Jo met their first day in third grade when they were given willow tree projects in science class. As their friendship grew through the year they decided to plant their trees together in a special spot in the woods.When they learned about the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants in sixth grade, they wanted to be just like them. By eight grade they have made separate friends and they don’t seem as close. As they go on separate adventures the summer before high school they find out who their real friends are, and who they really want to talk to when the going gets tough. Will their friendships grow as strong as the willow trees they planted?
Grade 7–10
November 10, 2008, Starred Review, Publishers Weekly
2009 - Kid's Indie Next List "Inspired Recommendations for Kids from Indie Booksellers"
After reading Pride and Prejudice or watching the BBC movie version, did you want to meet your Mr. Darcy?Welcome to Austenland.This is your opportunity to go back to the Regency era of Jane Austen’s novels to feel what it would be like to be one of her characters.
Thirty-two-year-old Jane Hayes has been obsessed with Colin Firth’s portrayal of Mr. Darcy in the BBC version of Pride & Prejudice.It is her secret guilty pleasure. Is it also the reason that all of her relationships have failed?Can any real man live up to Fitzwilliam Darcy?Her Great-Aunt Carolyn learns of this obsession before she dies.In her will she leaves Jane an all expense three week stay at PembrookPark in Kent England to live out the fantasy.Which will she chose, reality or fantasy?
Blair has been the center of attention with the Upper East Side elite since her best friend Serena went to boarding school. How will Blair act when her attention grabbing best friend comes back?
If catty, backstabbing activities interest you, then this is the book for you! Welcome to the spoiled world of entitled high school students from the Upper East Side of New York City. Blair was always in her best friend Serena’s shadow.When Serena went to boarding school, Blair became the center of attention.The buzz at ConstanceBillardSchool for Girls is that Serena is coming back because she was kicked out of boarding school.Serena never told Blair that she was coming back or why. Now Serena is coming back and everyone is talking about her and spreading wild rumors.After being in the limelight for the past two years will Blair be able to share it again with Serena?
Genre: Realistic Fiction, Chick Lit, Romance
