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Jellaby

author: Soo, Kean
Portia, Jason, and Jellaby continue to search Toronto for clues to his origins, even though Portia cannot bear the thought of losing her new friend, and the trio is shocked when they find another monster just like Jellaby, but not nearly as sweet natured.
741.5
year: 2009
copies: 3
call number/section: 741.5
lexile: 320

The Witchy Worries Of Abbie Adams

author: Hayter, Rhonda
Fifth-grader Abbie, descended from a long line of witches, tries to keep her family's magic powers secret from everyone she knows until her father brings home a kitten with some very unusual characteristics.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 10
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1170
subjects: witches, magic, friendship [X], families, family, family life [X], fantasy, fantasy fiction

The Lost Children

author: Cohagan, Carolyn
When twelve-year-old Josephine falls through a wormhole in her garden shed into another time and place, she realizes the troubles she has at home are minor compared to what she has to tackle in the world where she has landed.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 8
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 740
subjects: time travel, voyages and travels, friendship [X], family life [X], fantasy fiction

Kit Feeny

author: Townsend, Michael
When plucky Kit Feeny moves to a new town, he immediately makes an enemy of the sadistic school bully and must struggle to find friends who share his interests.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 17
call number/section: FIC
lexile:

As Simple As It Seems

author: Weeks, Sarah
Eleven-year-old Verbena Polter gets through a difficult summer of turbulent emotions and the revelation of a disturbing family secret with an odd new friend who believes she is the ghost of a girl who drowned many years before.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 57
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 910

Red Thread Sisters

author: Peacock, Carol Antoinette
After an American family adopts eleven-year-old Wen from a Chinese orphanage, she vows to find a family for her best friend, too.
FIC
year: 2013
copies: 15
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 700

Ten Good And Bad Things About My Life (so Far)

author: Martin, Ann M.
Fifth-grader Pearl Littlefield, having had some negative experiences over the past summer, struggles to complete her essay assignment about her break.
FIC
year: 2013
copies: 25
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 980
subjects: family life [X], sisters, camps, summer, friendship [X], new york (n.y.)

Penelope Crumb Never Forgets

author: Stout, Shawn K
During a fourth-grade field trip to Portwaller History Museum, Penelope fears that she is losing her best friend, Patsy Cline Roberta Watson, and decides to start her own secret museum so that she will never forget anyone important to her.
FIC
year: 2013
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 760
subjects: museums, best friends, friendship [X], human behavior, family life [X], field trips, families

Letters From The Inside

author: Marsden, John
The relationship between two teenage girls who become acquainted through letters intensifies as their correspondence reveals some of the terrible problems of their lives.
FIC
year: 1996
copies: 8
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 740

3 Nbs Of Julian Drew

author: Deem, James M
The journals of a troubled fifteen-year-old boy who lives with his father and emotionally and physically abusive stepmother and her children after the death of his own mother years ago.
FIC
year: 2004
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 560

You & You & You

author: Nilsson, Per
Young Anon, who marches to the beat of a different drummer in galoshes to protect himself from radiation, touches the lives of all around him, resulting in disillusionment, loss, love, and more than a few surprises.
FIC
year: 2005
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 760
subjects: friendship [X], family life [X], schools, love, sweden

Dread Locks

author: Shusterman, Neal
Accustomed to a carefree existence, fourteen-year-old Parker Baer meets the girl next door and finds his life taking a menacing turn as he begins to absorb some of her terrible powers.
FIC
year: 2006
copies: 29
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 710

Monsoon Summer

author: Perkins, Mitali
Secretly in love with her best friend and business partner Steve, fifteen-year-old Jazz must spend the summer away from him when her family goes to India during that country's rainy season to help set up a clinic.
FIC
year: 2006
copies: 9
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 750
subjects: best friends, friendship [X], family life [X], business enterprises, india

Essex County

author: Lemire, Jeff
A graphic novel in which Lester, a recently orphaned boy, is sent to his uncle's farm in Southwestern Ontario, where he befriends a damaged former hockey star and the two escape to a private fantasy world.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 24
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: orphans, farms, hockey players, friendship [X], ontario, country life, families, hockey, family life [X], nurses

The Queen Of Second Place

author: Roberts, Laura Peyton
Smitten with a new boy at school, California high school sophomore Cassie Howard spends months trying desperately to win him over before she finally regains some perspective.
FIC
year: 2006
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 740

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