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-- Ninety days of different2017., Juvenile, Orca Book Publishers Call No: Realistic FIC Walters Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Ella is going to take the ninety days between high school and college to help Sophie explore her spontaneous side. The only rules are that Sophie cannot say no to anything Ella suggests, and everything they do must be posted to social media.
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2020., Adolescent, Bloomsbury Call No: Realistic Fic Richards Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Believing her mother dead from a car accident, sixteen-year-old Johanna is being raised by her grandparents in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her father suddenly corresponds after being gone since she was a baby, revealing in a letter that her mother died of a gunshot wound inflicted by Johanna after she found an unsecured gun in their home when she was a toddler. The revelation sends Johanna into an emotional tailspin, from which she'll have to learn to forgive herself and those who lied to her.
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By Carter, Ally2015., Adolescent, Scholastic Press Call No: MYSTERY F CAR Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Embassy Row Volume: 1Summary Note: Grace Blakely knows her mother was murdered, but no one else will believe her, not even her powerful ambassador grandfather. Disturbingly, the Russian boy next door has been keeping his eyes on her, for reasons Grace doesn't want to think about. While everyone wants Grace to just live and be pretty, Grace knows that if she doesn't act fast her mother's killer may come back.
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By Carter, Ally2015, Adolescent, Scholastic Press Call No: [Fic] Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Book one of Embassy RowSummary Note: Grace Blakely knows her mother was murdered, but no one else will believe her, not even her powerful ambassador grandfather. Disturbingly, the Russian boy next door has been keeping his eyes on her, for reasons Grace doesn't want to think about. While everyone wants Grace to just live and be pretty, Grace knows that if she doesn't act fast her mother's killer may come back.
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By Carter, Ally2015, Adolescent, Scholastic Press Call No: [Fic] Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Book one of Embassy RowSummary Note: Grace Blakely knows her mother was murdered, but no one else will believe her, not even her powerful ambassador grandfather. Disturbingly, the Russian boy next door has been keeping his eyes on her, for reasons Grace doesn't want to think about. While everyone wants Grace to just live and be pretty, Grace knows that if she doesn't act fast her mother's killer may come back.
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By Tims, Laura[2017]., Adolescent, HarperTeen Call No: Realistic FIC Tims Edition: First edition. Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Samantha Herring lives in constant physical and emotional pain after a terrible car accident wounds her leg and takes the life of her mother. When she meets a boy named Eliot, she learns what at first seems like an amazing secret--Eliot cannot physically feel any pain, which she thinks would be nice right about now. However, as Sam continues learning about Eliot, and perhaps developing a crush on him, she begins to see how Eliot's medical condition may actually be a curse.
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By Slepian, Janc1993., Philomel Books Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Eleven-year-old cousins Linny and Hilary find themselves transported back to their old Brooklyn neighborhood to a time just before Linny's mother died and Hilary's father left home.
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[2022]., Ballantine Books Call No: YOUNG ADULT FIC WIL Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "In present-day California, Eleanor Bennett's death leaves behind a puzzling inheritance for her two children, Byron and Benny: a traditional Caribbean black cake, made from a family recipe with a long history, and a voice recording. In her message, Eleanor shares a tumultuous story about a headstrong young swimmer who escapes her island home under suspicion of murder. The . . . journey Eleanor unfolds, the secrets she still holds back, and the mystery of a long-lost child, challenge everything the siblings thought they knew about their family, and themselves"--Provided by publisher.
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c2006., Juvenile, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Call No: Teen Fiction Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Publisher description Sample text Summary Note: While coping with her grandmother's sudden death and her mother's resulting depression and fascination with a spiritualist church, whose ministers claim to communicate with the dead, fifteen-year-old Liz finds herself falling for a new neighbor whose mother is dying of cancer.
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c2006., Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: While coping with her grandmother's sudden death and her mother's resulting depression and fascination with a spiritualist church, whose ministers claim to communicate with the dead, fifteen-year-old Liz finds herself falling for a new neighbor whose mother is dying of cancer.
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2007, c2006., Juvenile, Simon Pulse Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: While coping with her grandmother's sudden death and her mother's resulting depression and fascination with a spiritualist church, whose ministers claim to communicate with the dead, fifteen-year-old Liz finds herself falling for a new neighbor whose mother is dying of cancer.
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2022., Adolescent, Dutton Books Call No: REALISTIC F ILO Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Yaminah Okar left Obsidian and the wreckage of her family years ago. She and her father have made lives for themselves in Brooklyn. She thinks she's moved on to bigger and better things. She thinks she's finally left behind that city she would rather forget. But when a Facebook message about her estranged mother pierces Yaminah's new bubble, memories of everything that happened before her parents' divorce come roaring back. Now, Yaminah must finally reckon with the truth about her mother and the growing collapse of a place she once called home"--Provided by the publisher.
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2022., Adolescent, Dutton Books Call No: YOUNG ADULT FIC ILO Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Yaminah Okar left Obsidian and the wreckage of her family years ago. She and her father have made lives for themselves in Brooklyn. She thinks she's moved on to bigger and better things. She thinks she's finally left behind that city she would rather forget. But when a Facebook message about her estranged mother pierces Yaminah's new bubble, memories of everything that happened before her parents' divorce come roaring back. Now, Yaminah must finally reckon with the truth about her mother and the growing collapse of a place she once called home"--Provided by publisher.
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2019., Pre-adolescent, Candlewick Press Call No: [Fic] Edition: First U.S. edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: While her father is at war, five-year-old Rosalie is a captain on her own secret mission. She wears the disguise of a little girl and tracks her progress in a secret notebook. Some evenings, Rosalie's mother reads aloud Father's letters from the front lines, so that Rosalie knows he is thinking of her and looking forward to the end of the war and to finally coming home. But one day a letter comes that her mother doesn't read to her, and Rosalie knows her mission must soon come to an end.
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-- Acorn full of memories2009., Tanglewood Call No: [E] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: After his mother explains why his classmate is not returning to school, she teaches Chester Raccoon how to make a memory.
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By Grove, Vickic1995., Putnam's Sons Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Looking for a new beginning after her father's death, Eliza and her mother move to a backwater town in Missouri where Eliza's desperate attempts to be popular in her new school are thwarted by her growing friendship with the eccentric girl next door.
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By Grove, Vickic1995., Putnam's Sons Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Looking for a new beginning after her father's death, Eliza and her mother move to a backwater town in Missouri where Eliza's desperate attempts to be popular in her new school are thwarted by her growing friendship with the eccentric girl next door.
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-- El curioso incidente del perro a media noche.2014., Ediciones Salamandra Call No: Mystery Fiction HAD Edition: 11a. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Despite his overwhelming fear of interacting with people, Christopher, a mathematically-gifted, autistic fifteen-year-old boy, decides to investigate the murder of a neighbor's dog and uncovers secret information about his mother.
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By Feder, Tyler[2020]., Dial Books Call No: GN FED Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Tyler Feder shares her story of her mother's first oncology appointment to facing reality as a motherless daughter in this frank and refreshingly funny graphic memoir"--Provided by the publisher.
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By Feder, Tyler[2020]., Adolescent, Dial Books Call No: 921 FEDER Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Tyler Feder shares her story of her mother's first oncology appointment to facing reality as a motherless daughter in this frank and refreshingly funny graphic memoir"--Provided by publisher.
