Park Ridge YA: Gentle Reads
Annotation:In this charming romance, two eighth-graders tell, in alternating chapters, how they feel about each other. Julianna has been head-over-heels in love with Bryce since the second grade while Bryce, on the other hand, has only just noticed how wonderful Julianna is.
Place a Hold
Annotation:Jake is sent to the Applewhite family's Creative Academy as a last resort after he is expelled from school for starting a fire and his parents end up in jail. Jake doesn't know how to act with the free-spirited Applewhites, who pay no attention to his black clothes, body piercings, and spiked hair.
Annotation:David has recently lost his mother to a freak accident, his salesman father is constantly on the road, and he is letting his anger out on his grandmother while Primrose lives with her unstable, childlike, fortuneteller mother, and the only evidence of the father she never knew is a framed picture. Despite their age difference (David is 9, Primrose is 13), they forge a tight yet tumultuous friendship, eventually helping each other deal with what is missing in their lives.
Annotation:Through emails and letters, scratching on take-out containers, and scrawlings on news clippings, seventeen-year-old Tim tries to contact the girl of his dreams.
Annotation:This book contains ten short stories in which the lives of young people in different circumstances are changed by their encounters with books.
Annotation:While hoping to work as the clown in an amusement park dunk tank on the New Jersey shore the summer before his junior year in high school, Chad faces his best friend's serious illness, hassles with police, and the girl that got away.
Annotation:Shy and fearful Princess Addie must face the monsters of Bamarre--ogres, specters, gryphons, and dragons--as her sister's fate hangs in the balance.
Annotation:Sixteen-year-old Robbie Daniels, happy to get a job aboard a boat fishing for king salmon off southeastern Alaska, finds himself in danger when he discovers that his mysterious captain is searching for long-buried Russian plaques that lay claim to Alaska and the Northwest.
Annotation:Thirteen-year-old Bethany's parents have always been overprotective, but when they suddenly drop out of sight with no explanation, leaving her with an aunt she never knew existed, Bethany uncovers shocking secrets that make her question everything she thought she knew about herself and her family.
Annotation:Jack lets his teacher know right away that he does not care for poetry--in his own free-verse poetry. But his clever teacher, through use of well-known poems, draws him in.
Annotation:Having lived in 13 states in 12 years, Domenica Santolina Doone, Dinnie for short, has been traveling all her life; but it's still a shock when her parents suddenly hand her over to Uncle Max and Aunt Sandy and she finds herself headed for the American School in Lugano, Switzerland, where Max is headmaster.
Annotation:Bobby wakes one morning, stumbles to the bathroom to brush his teeth, looks in the mirror, and sees nothing. What has caused him to become invisible and how will he possibly get on with his life?
Annotation:A sophomore girl stops a presidential assassination attempt, is appointed Teen Ambassador to the United Nations, and catches the eye of the very cute First Son.
Annotation:When the Penderwicks -- four motherless girls and their lovable but untrained dog Hound -- lose the cottage that they usually rent for summer vacation, they go to the caretaker's cottage on the grounds of a beautiful mansion, complete with magnificent gardens. A young boy lives in the mansion and when they discover each other, much adventure follows.
Annotation:When sixteen-year-old Hope and the aunt who has raised her move from Brooklyn to Mulhoney, Wisconsin, to work as a waitress and cook in the Welcome Stairways diner, they become involved with the diner owner's political campaign to oust the town's corrupt mayor.
Annotation:Having vowed as children to never marry after witnessing many disastrous weddings and obnoxious brides in their parents' wedding planning business, fifteen-year-old Abby is dismayed when her older sister Carol suddenly gets engaged and turns into Bridezilla.
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