Juvenile & Young Adult / Family / Family

Violet Mackerel's Natural Habitat

by Anna Branford & Elanna Allen

Violet is back with a little bit of helpfulness and a whole lot of heart in this third book of the effervescent Violet Mackerel series.

Violet is the smallest in her family, and has a special affinity for Small...

The Year of Luminous Love

by Lurlene Mcdaniel

   In the vein of Eat, Pray, Love, but for teens, this inspirational novel is set against the backdrop of Tennessee horse country as well as the historic cities of Italy and the Italian countryside. The story...

A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-1832

by Joan W. Blos

I, Catherine Cabot Hall, aged 13 years, 6 months, 29 days…do begin this book.

So begins the journal of a girl coming of age in nineteenth-century New Hampshire. Catherine records both the hardships of pioneer...

Odessa Again

by Dana Reinhardt

   Fourth grader Odessa Green-Light lives with her mom and her toad of a little brother, Oliver. Her dad is getting remarried, which makes no sense according to Odessa. If the prefix "re" means "to do all...

Vulgar the Viking and a Midsummer Night's Scream

by Odin Redbeard & Sarah Horne

VULGAR THINKS MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S EVE IS THE BEST VIKING FESTIVAL OF ALL! There'll be a massive bonfire, and everyone will sing songs about exellent longboats and enormous battles, then eat and drink until their...

The Life of Ty: Penguin Problems

by Lauren Myracle & Jed Henry

Winnie Perry’s sweet baby brother, Ty, is the quintessential dreamer, full of big ideas and wacky plans that only a seven-year-old boy could hatch. Whether it’s battling the family cat with a Dustbuster...

Here Today

by Ann M. Martin

Newbery Honor medalist Ann M. Martin's "unforgettable" (Booklist, starred) family story, now in paperback "In 1963, Ellie's mother, Doris Day Dingman, was crowned the Bosetti Beauty at Mr. Bosetti's supermarket,...

Family Tree #1: Better to Wish

by Ann M. Martin

Four generations. Four girls. One family. An amazing new four-book series from Ann M. Martin. In 1930, Abby Nichols is eight, and can't imagine what her future holds. The best things today would be having a...

Hero on a Bicycle

by Shirley Hughes

In her first novel, beloved author Shirley Hughes presents a World War II adventure proving that in extraordinary circumstances, people are capable of extraordinary things. Italy, 1944: Florence is occupied...

Calvin Coconut #9: Extra Famous

by Graham Salisbury & Jacqueline Rogers

There are zombies at Kailua beach!! Well, kind of. Fourth-grader Calvin Coconut and his friends have been recruited by Benny Obi (the boy from Kung Fooey who liked to tell crazy stories and ate bugs) to be...

Alvin Ho: Allergic to Babies, Burglars, and Other Bumps in the Night

by Lenore Look & Leuyen Pham

Readers will herald the return of their favorite phobic boy in this, the fifth book in the beloved Alvin Ho series. Alvin's mother has been getting bigger . . . and bigger. Alvin's sure it's all the mochi cakes...

The Abandoned

by Paul Gallico

London hasn’t been kind to Peter, a lonely boy whose parents are always out at parties, and though Peter would love to have a cat for company, his nanny won’t hear of it. One day, as Peter is walking out...

Zebra Forest

by Andina Rishe Gewirtz

In an extraordinary debut novel, an escaped fugitive upends everything two siblings think they know about their family, their past, and themselves. When eleven-year-old Annie first started lying to her social...

Damage

by Robin Stevenson

Theo ends up in a strange situation with a girl who has kidnapped her own child.

Period 8

by Chris Crutcher

Period 8. An hour a day. You can hang out. You can eat your lunch. You can talk. Or listen. Or neither. Or both. Nothing is off-limits. The only rule is that you keep it real; that you tell the truth.

Heller...

White Fur Flying

by Patricia Maclachlan

A young boy tries to find his voice with the help of some four-legged friends in this novel from the Newbery-winning author of Sarah, Plain and Tall.

Zoe’s family rescues dogs in need. There is always the sweet...

Rhyming Boy

by Steven Herrick

Jayden Hayden, wordsmith, aka rhyming boy, doesn’t have a dad, just a mom obsessed with football player Jayden Finch and an embarrassing name that gets him teased. When his school’s father-son day is announced,...

Destiny, Rewritten

by Kathryn Fitzmaurice

Eleven-year-old Emily Elizabeth Davis has been told for her entire life that her destiny is to become a poet, just like her famous namesake, Emily Dickinson. But Emily doesn't even really like poetry, and she...

Seventeen Against the Dealer

by Cynthia Voigt

Do you have to lose everything to see what truly matters? Find out in the seventh and final installment of Cynthia Voigt’s Tillerman cycle.

Dicey Tillerman has big dreams. She’s started a boatbuilding business,...

Dear Scarlett

by Fleur Hitchcock & Sarah J Coleman

A funny, moving and absorbing story about a young girl’s attempts to learn more about her dead father through the objects she finds in a cardboard box he’s left her.