Juvenile & Young Adult / Family / Family

The Good Girl

by Kerry Cohen Hoffmann

EVER SINCE HER brother Mark’s accidental death, 15-year-old Lindsey has become the good girl—good daughter, good friend, good student. She places everyone’s needs before her own. Secretly, though, she’s...

I So Don't Do Spooky

by Barrie Summy

Someone’s out to get Sherry’s stepmom. . . .Can she save her before it’s too late?

Did you know that the main campus of the Academy of Spirits is at a Dairy Queen in Phoenix? Me either. Until now. Some...

Escape Velocity

by Mark Walden

Now in paperback, a riveting installment in an action-packed series.

Students and staff at H.I.V.E.—the Higher Institute of Villainous Education—are horrified to discover that Dr. Nero has been captured by...

The Last Little Blue Envelope

by Maureen Johnson

Ginny Blackstone thought that the biggest adventure of her life was behind her. She spent last summer traveling around Europe, following the tasks her aunt Peg laid out in a series of letters before she died....

Flat Stanley's Worldwide Adventures #7: The Flying Chinese Wonders

by Jeff Brown & Macky Pamintuan

Watch out, Stanley!

Ouch! Stanley accidentally caused twin acrobats Yin and Yang to take a tumble, right before their Chinese New Year show. Yang's foot is broken—but luckily, Flat Stanley is flexible enough...

Outside In

by Karen Romano Young

Chérie Witkowski is twelve, and she doesn't want to turn thirteen this year. This is the year, 1968, that everything -- absolutely everything-seems to be changing. At home her parents are expecting a new baby,...

The Summer of May

by Cecilia Galante & Tad Carpenter

Now in paperback, a moving novel of loss and resilience, told in a voice that is “sometimes humorous, at times heartbreaking, and always authentic” (School Library Journal).

Twelve-year-old May lives with...

Shooting Kabul

by N. H. Senzai

Fadi never imagined he’d start middle school in Fremont, California, thousands of miles from home in Kabul—and half a world away from his missing six-year-old sister, Mariam.

Adjusting to life in the United...

The Cloud Chamber

by Joyce Maynard

The minute the school bus carrying Nate Chance and his little sister, Junie, pulls up in front of his family's farmhouse, Nate can tell something's terribly wrong: Somehow his father has been wounded by a gunshot....

Ten Miles Past Normal

by Frances O'Roark Dowell

From bestselling author Frances O’Roark Dowell, a “funny and winning” (Kirkus Reviews) tale of one teen’s quest for normalcy—and the much more exciting detours she takes along the way.

Janie Gorman...

Illegal

by Bettina Restrepo

A promise.

Quinceañera.

A promise that we would be together on my fifteenth birthday . . .

Instead, Nora is on a desperate journey far away from home. When her father leaves their beloved Mexico in search of work,...

Gingerbread

by Rachel Cohn

"I have promised to be a model citizen daughter....I have confined my Shrimp time to making out with him in the Java the Hut supply closet and quick feels on the cold hard sand at the beach during our breaks,...

Mommy Calls Me Monkeypants

by J.D. Lester & Hiroe Nakata

This endearing book captures the sweetness and fun of mother and child interaction with a clever, funny text and illustrations that are right on the mark. J. D. Lester’ s funny nicknames come to life with...

Sunday Is for God

by Michael Mcgowan, Lou Fancher & Steve Johnson

“Weekdays are for school and Saturday’s for having fun. But Sunday is the Lord’s Day. Sunday is for God.”

A boy longs to play in the river on this hot summer day, but instead he has to sit quietly in...

Shrimp

by Rachel Cohn

If Cyd Charisse knows one thing, it's that Shrimp is her true love. Shrimp, the hottest pint-size surfer-artist in San Francisco. That boy (as her mother called him), who was the primary cause of Cyd being grounded...

Olivia: With Audio Recording

by Ian Falconer & Dame Edna

Have fun with Olivia...

dressing up

singing songs

building sand castles

napping (maybe)

dancing

painting on walls

and -- whew! --

going to sleep at last.

Everyone's favorite Caldecott Honor-winning porcine diva...

Caddie Woodlawn's Family

by Carol Ryrie Brink & Marguerite Davis

A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.

Disenchanted Princess

by Julie Linker

I may be in the middle of nowhere,

but I still have standards!

Like it's not bad enough Daddy's in jail for embezzlement (he's a super-successful Hollywood agent, btw, and totally innocent), but since my fashion-model...

T-backs, T-shirts, Coat, and Suit

by E.L. Konigsburg

Going to Peco, Florida, for the summer to stay with Bernadette is not Chloe's first choice. Or her second or her third. It's her only choice. She has to leave town because of the hair contract. If she didn't...

Walking on Air

by Kelly Easton

But today I dream of falling...into the crowd of God-struck people. The pale leaves of their faces tilt up and their white limbs rise to catch me as I am passed among the river of their hands, one to another,...