Homecoming
Thirteen-year-old Dicey takes care of her three siblings over the course of a summer in New England and tries to find a new home for all of them after they are abandoned by their mother.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 29
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 630
subjects: survival, family life, survival skills, new england, abandoned children, connecticut [X], families [X], audiobooks, compact discs
Diamonds In The Shadow
While his mother and father help a family of African refugees, Jared learns that the people he counts on for doing good deeds are not always praiseworthy and is faced with a decision which may have implications for all.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 36
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 750
Basketball (or Something Like It)
Hank, Nathan, Jeremy, and Anabel deal with the realities of middle school basketball, including family pressure, a series of coaches with very different personalities and agendas, and what it means to be a team--and a friend.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 18
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 570
subjects: basketball, sportsmanship, interpersonal relations, self-realization, family, connecticut [X], families [X]
Because Of Mr. Terupt
It’s the start of fifth grade for seven kids at Snow Hill School.
FIC
year: 2013
copies: 162
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 560
subjects: teacher-student relationships, interpersonal relations, teachers, schools, families [X], connecticut [X], teacher-student relationship, school stories, family life, family
My Summer Of Pink & Green
Rather than a summer of fun transforming her family's pharmacy into an eco-spa, Lucy Desberg must face her sister Claudia's new boyfriend Bean, investor Gary's irritating daughter Bevin, and a spa coordinator who is put in charge of the plans.
FIC
year: 2014
copies: 26
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 740
subjects: buildings, health resorts, families [X], cosmetics, green movement, connecticut [X], family life, environmental movement, family, environmentalism, juvenile fiction / girls & women, juvenile fiction / family / siblings, juvenile fiction / readers / intermediate
One For The Murphys
After heartbreaking betrayal, Carley is sent to live with a foster family and struggles with opening herself up to their love.
FIC
year: 2013
copies: 76
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 520
subjects: foster home care, mothers and daughters, stepfathers, dysfunctional families, families [X], connecticut [X], family problems, family life, mother-daughter relationship
The Time-traveling Fashionista
Louise finds the perfect dress for her junior high school dance at a traveling vintage fashion sale, and puts it on only to be transported back in time to a luxurious cruise ship in 1912 where she is feted as Miss Baxter, a teenage silent film star, but when she realizes the ship she is on is the "Titanic," she knows she must somehow find a way back home.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 860
The Time-traveling Fashionista At The Palace Of Marie Antoinette
While seeking the perfect dress for her friend's birthday party, twelve-year-old Louise Lambert dons a vintage gown and finds herself with a young Marie Antoinette in eighteenth-century France where, between cute commoner boys and glamorous trips to Paris, she finds that life in the palace is not all cake and couture.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1090
subjects: marie antoinette, space and time, fashion, magic, courts and courtiers, families [X], france, connecticut [X]
The Ice Storm
The story of a winter ice storm in 1973 in an affluent suburb in Connecticut where men and women swap partners, and their children experiment with sex, drugs, and suicide.
FIC
year: 2002
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
The Time-traveling Fashionista
Twelve-year-old Louise Lambert accepts an invitation to a private sale of vintage clothing but upon donning an evening gown, she finds herself in 1912 aboard the Titanic as the gown's original owner, silent film star Alice Baxter.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 860
What I Thought Was True
"17-year-old Gwen Castle is a working-class girl determined to escape her small island town, but when rich-kid Cass Somers, with whom she has a complicated romantic history, shows up, she's forced to reassess her feelings about her loving, complex family, her lifelong best friends, her wealthy employer, the place she lives, and the boy she can't admit she loves"--Provided by publisher.
FIC
year: 2015
copies: 13
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: islands, old age, people with disabilities, family life, dating (social customs), connecticut [X], social classes, families [X], family
The Unexpected Everything
Andie is the daughter of a politician and has lived her life with everything perfectly planned out.
FIC
year: 2016
copies: 38
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 950
subjects: fathers and daughters, scandals, interpersonal relations, families [X], connecticut [X], father-daughter relationship, family life, friendship, love stories, love stories
The Secret Files Of Fairday Morrow
When eleven-year-old Fairday Morrow and her family move from Manhattan to the infamous Begonia House in the quiet country town of Ashpot, Connecticut, weird clues could lead to big trouble for Fairday and the rest of the Detective Mystery Squad.
FIC
year: 2017
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: haunted houses, moving, household, families [X], family life, connecticut [X], detective and mystery fiction
On Board The Titanic
Twelve-year-old Louise Lambert accepts an invitation to a private sale of vintage clothing but upon donning an evening gown, she finds herself in 1912 aboard the Titanic as the gown's original owner, silent film star Alice Baxter.
FIC
year:
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 860
subjects: titanic (steamship), space and time, time travel, fashion, magic, families [X], connecticut [X]
At The Palace Of Marie Antoinette
While seeking the perfect dress for her friend's birthday party, twelve-year-old Louise Lambert dons a vintage gown and finds herself with a young Marie Antoinette in eighteenth-century France where, between cute commoner boys and glamorous trips to Paris, she finds that life in the palace is not all cake and couture.
FIC
year:
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1090
subjects: marie antoinette, space and time, fashion, magic, courts and courtiers, families [X], france, connecticut [X]