Chasing Redbird
Thirteen-year-old Zinnia Taylor uncovers family secrets and self truths while clearing a mysterious settler trail that begins on her family's farm in Kentucky.
FIC
year: 2005
copies: 76
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 860
subjects: aunts, uncles, death, grief, family life, large type books, kentucky, death, guilt [X], family, families [X]
Swallowing Stones
Dual perspectives reveal the aftermath of seventeen-year-old Michael MacKenzie's birthday celebration during which he discharges an antique Winchester rifle and unknowingly kills the father of high school classmate Jenna Ward.
FIC
year: 1999
copies: 14
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 820
Saint Maybe
In 1965 the Bedloe family lives on a quiet street in Baltimore. Seventeen-year-old Ian has dreams for the future, until the night when he meddles in his older brother's life--and from that careless moment on, nothing can ever be the same.
FIC
year: 1996
copies: 10
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 820
Without Tess
Fifteen-year-old Lizzie Cohen recalls what it was like growing up with her imaginative but disturbed older sister Tess, and how she is striving to reclaim her own life since Tess died.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 25
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 790
Ketchup Clouds
Zoe, a teenager in Bath, England, writes letters to a death-row inmate in Texas, hoping to find comfort in sharing her guilty secret over the death of a friend with someone who can never tell her family.
FIC
year: 2013
copies: 26
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 890
subjects: children's secrets, epistolary fiction, families [X], grief, guilt [X], bath (england), england
The Healing Spell
Eleven-year-old tomboy Livie is sure that she is responsible for the accident that has put her mother into a coma, so, trying to make amends, she travels through the Louisiana swamps to get a spell that will make her mother well again.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 13
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 800
Ketchup Clouds
Fifteen-year-old Zoe has a secret - a dark and terrible secret that she can't confess to anyone she knows.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 890
The Goldfish Boy
Emotionally crippled by his obsessive-compulsive disorder, teenager Matthew Corbin rarely leaves his room on a cul-de-sac in London, and he passes the day observing and writing down his neighbors doings from his window--but when a toddler staying next door disappears Matt is the key to solving a mystery and possibly saving a child's life .
FIC
year: 2018
copies: 65
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 750
subjects: missing children, obsessive-compulsive disorder, guilt [X], family life, neighbors, london (england), england, detective and mystery fiction, families [X], missing persons
Living With Jackie Chan
After fathering a baby, a teenager moves in with his karate-loving uncle and tries to come to terms with his guilt and find a way to forgive.
FIC
year: 2015
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 530
subjects: families [X], guilt [X], interpersonal relations in adolescence, karate, teenage fathers, teenage pregnancy
The Whopper
"A little boy named Percy tells a lie, which turns into the Whopper, a hungry and persistant monster.
FIC
year: 2017
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: truthfulness and falsehood, guilt [X], monsters, families [X], honesty, family life, picture books
Remarkables
Eleven-year-old Marin and her neighbor Charley hope that by preventing a disaster that occurred twenty years ago, they can save Charley's dad from a future of guilt and self-destructive behavior.
FIC
year: 2019
copies: 32
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: friendship, families [X], guilt [X], family life, fantasy fiction, action and adventure fiction, audiobooks
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Emotionally crippled by his obsessive-compulsive disorder, teenager Matthew Corbin rarely leaves his room on a cul-de-sac in London, and he passes the day observing and writing down his neighbors doings from his window--but when a toddler staying next door disappears Matt is the key to solving a mystery and possibly saving a child's life .
FIC
year: 2021
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: missing children, obsessive-compulsive disorder, guilt [X], families [X], neighbors, detective and mystery stories, missing persons, family life, mystery and detective stories, chinese language materials, london (england), england, detective and mystery fiction
Yours Truly
Zoe, a teenager in Bath, England, writes letters to a death-row inmate in Texas, hoping to find comfort in sharing her guilty secret over the death of a friend with someone who can never tell her family.
FIC
year: 2014
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: guilt [X], grief, families [X], secrecy, letters, family life, secrets, juvenile fiction / law & crime, juvenile fiction / social issues / dating & sex, juvenile fiction / social issues / death & dying, bath (england), england
Between Two Brothers
Isaiah "Ice" Abernathy is excited to spend as much time with his brother, Seth, as he can before Seth goes to college.
FIC
year: 2024
copies: 6
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: brothers, siblings, families [X], guilt [X], african americans, family life, coming of age, bildungsromans