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1) Nightbird
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
199 pages ; 21 cm
Description
Twig, aged twelve, is practically ignored by classmates and other residents of Sidwell, Massachusetts, but gets along fine with just her mother and brother, whose presence must be kept secret, until descendants of the witch who cursed her family move in next door and want to be her friends.
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
234 p. ; 20 cm.
Description
Growing up near Boston with her free-spirited mother and old-world grandfather, twelve-year-old Emma has always felt out of place but when she attends the family reunion her father's family holds annually in Wisconsin, she is in for some surprises.
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
244 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Eighth-grade star quarterback Nate Brodie's family is feeling the stress of the troubled economy, and Nate is frantic because his best friend Abby is going blind, so when he gets a chance to win a million dollars if he can complete a pass during the halftime of a New England Patriot's game, he is nearly overwhelmed by the pressure to succeed.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
282 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
French horn virtuoso Elsie Wyatt resents having to join her high school's marching band playing a melliphone, but finally finds a sense of belonging that transcends the pressure she has always felt to be as good as her father, principal french horn player in the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
Author
Series
Openly straight volume 1
Formats
Description
Tired of being known as "the gay kid", Rafe Goldberg decides to assume a new persona when he comes east and enters an elite Massachusetts prep school--but trying to deny his identity has both complications and unexpected consequences.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
272 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
In the mid-nineteenth-century shipbuilding town of Essex, Massachusetts, twelve-year-old Addie learns a startling secret about her past when she escapes servitude by running away to live in the snowy woods and meets an elderly Wampanoag woman.
8) Thrill ride
Author
Series
Hardy boys undercover brothers volume 4
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
154 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Description
Frank and Joe travel to Massachusetts where they investigate a death and other mysterious events occurring at an amusement park.
Author
Series
Immortal beloved trilogy volume 1
Formats
Description
After seeing her best friend, a Dark Immortal called Incy, torture a human with magick, Nastasya, a spoiled party girl, enters a home for wayword immortals and finally begins to deal with life, even as she learns that someone wants her dead.
Author
Series
Clementine volume 4
Formats
Description
With her kitten, Moisturizer, missing and having fought with her best friend, Margaret, eight-year-old Clementine finds it hard to concentrate on doing her best as her classmate's Friend of the Week.
Author
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
374 pages ; 22 cm
Appears on list
Description
The discovery of a packet of old letters sends seventeen-year-old Abby Schoenberg to Nantucket to unravel a family mystery about her grandmother's past, but things get complicated when Abby meets the cute grandson of a prominent family who wants to stop her from investigating.
12) Tagging freedom
Author
Publisher
Union Square Kids
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
282 pages ; 20 cm
Description
Kareem Haddad of Damascus, Syria, never dreamed of becoming a graffiti artist. But when a group of boys from another town tag subversive slogans outside their school, and another boy is killed while in custody, Kareem and his friends are inspired and start secretly tagging messages of freedom around their city.
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
307 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Description
Thirteen-year-olds Madeleine, Theo, and Lulu, fourteen-year-old Garrison, and ten-year-old new "contestant" Hyacinth, must face their phobias and join forces to learn who is stealing wigs and pageant trophies from the School of Fear.
14) Ghost Hawk
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
c2013.
Physical Desc
328 pages : map ; 22 cm
Description
At the end of a winter-long journey into manhood, Little Hawk returns to find his village decimated by a white man's plague and soon, despite a fresh start, Little Hawk dies violently but his spirit remains trapped, seeing how his world changes.
Author
Series
The Penderwicks volume 4
Pub. Date
2015.
Formats
Description
As spring arrives on Gardam Street, there are surprises in store for each Penderwick, from neighbor Nick Geiger's expected return from the war to Batty's new dog-walking business, but her plans to use her profits to surprise her family on her eleventh birthday go astray.
Author
Publisher
Roca Editorial de Libros
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
317 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
Can Mimi undo the mayhem caused by her baking in this contemporary-fantasy retelling of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream? Eleven-year-old Mimi Mackson comes from a big Indian American family: Dad's a renowned food writer, Mom's a successful businesswoman, and her three older siblings all have their own respective accomplishments. It's easy to feel invisible in such an impressive family, but Mimi's dream of proving she's not the least-talented...
18) Honestly Ben
Author
Series
Openly straight volume 2
Formats
Description
Ben Carver returns for the spring semester at the exclusive Natick School in Massachusetts determined to put his relationship with Rafe Goldberg behind him and concentrate on his grades and the award that will mean a full scholarship--but Rafe is still there, there is a girl named Hannah whom he meets in the library, and behind it all is his relationship with his distant, but demanding father.
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