Confetti Girl
After the death of her mother, Texas sixth-grader Lina's grades and mood drop as she watches her father lose himself more and more in books, while her best friend uses Lina as an excuse to secretly meet her boyfriend.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 35
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 660
subjects: single-parent families [X], fathers and daughters, best friends [X], friendship [X], middle schools, texas, grief, father-daughter relationship, schools, father-child relationship, school stories, father and child
Undone
Sixteen-year-olds Serena and Kori look alike but have opposite personalities and live very different lives in Kismet, Colorado, but when tragedy strikes, Serena decides to complete Kori's list of "5 Secret Things" and uncovers, in the process, the mystery that has bound them together.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 7
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 710
subjects: best friends [X], friendship [X], family, single-parent families [X], high schools, colorado, families
Althea And Oliver
The long-time friendship of high school juniors Althea Carter and Oliver McKinley is threatened when she tries to turn it into something more despite Oliver's resistance.
FIC
year: 2015
copies: 24
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 950
subjects: single-parent families [X], sleep disorders, coming of age, friendship [X], best friends [X], schools, high schools, school stories
Saving Baby Doe
"When best friends Lionel and Anisa find and save an abandoned baby, the fallout threatens to tear their relationship apart"--Provided by publisher.
FIC
year: 2014
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
Positively Beautiful
Sixteen-year-old Erin's life is fairly normal until she learns that her mother has breast cancer and she, too, may carry a mutated gene, so amid high school dramas including betrayal by her best friend, she must consider preemptive surgery to guarantee she will not be stricken.
FIC
year: 2015
copies: 10
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 750
subjects: single-parent families [X], dating (social customs), friendship [X], best friends [X], schools, breast cancer, cancer, mother-daughter relationship, high schools, school stories, bildungsromans
Bright Lights, Dark Nights
Walter Wilcox's first love, Naomi, happens to be African American, so when Walter's policeman father is caught in a racial profiling scandal, the teens' bond and mutual love of the Foo Fighters may not be enough to keep them together through the pressures they face at school, at home, and online.
FIC
year: 2016
copies: 17
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: schools, high schools, fathers and sons, single-parent families [X], friendship [X], dating (social customs), race relations, best friends [X], romance fiction
Life According To Dani
It's Dani's first summer vacation and she is staying on an island with Ella, her best friend in the world.
FIC
year: 2016
copies: 13
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 460
subjects: fathers and daughters, friendship [X], vacation, single-parent families [X], best friends [X], vacations
Saving Marty
"When Lorenzo adopts a runt piglet destined for auction, an unexpected, life-changing friendship forms"--Provided by publisher.
FIC
year: 2017
copies: 61
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 650
subjects: swine, animals, best friends [X], friendship [X], single-parent families [X], heroes, farm life, pigs, animal babies, heroes and heroines, juvenile fiction / animals / pigs, juvenile fiction / social issues / friendship, juvenile fiction / performing arts / music, pennsylvania, children's audiobooks
And She Was
When Dara finds her birth certificate, she is puzzled to find two strange names on it, but when her mother, Mellie, reveals that she is transgender and transitioned when Dara's biological mother died soon after Dara's birth, Dara is stunned and angry--and she sets off with her friend Sam, in search of the grandparents she never knew existed (and who may be able to fund her tennis career), and the family secrets she can only guess at.
FIC
year: 2018
copies: 9
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: friendship [X], best friends [X], single-parent families [X], mothers and daughters, transgender people, family life, secrets, transgender parents, family secrets
Campfire
Sixteen-year-old Maddie's camping trip with family and friends in a remote mountain location turns deadly as stories told around the campfire begin coming true.
FIC
year:
copies: 6
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: camping, murder, brothers and sisters, single-parent families [X], best friends [X], friendship [X], storytelling, horror fiction
This Is Kind Of An Epic Love Story
Budding screenwriter Nate, sixteen, finds his conviction that happy endings do not happen in real life sorely tested when his childhood best friend and crush, Oliver James Hernandez, moves back to town.
FIC
year:
copies: 7
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: bisexuality, people with disabilities, deaf, single-parent families [X], mothers and sons, schools, high schools, friendship [X], best friends [X]
Nikki On The Line
Nikki, thirteen, dreams of being a great basketball player but struggles on her new, elite team while also juggling school stress, her non-traditional family, and revelations about her biological father.
FIC
year:
copies: 21
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 840
subjects: basketball, single-parent families [X], best friends [X], friendship [X], middle schools, schools, basketball stories, sports fiction
Out Of Place
Twelve-year-old Cove Bernstein yearns for her best friend, Nina, who moved to New York City, but with unlikely new friends, discovers that life on Martha's Vineyard can be pretty good.
FIC
year: 2019
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: best friends [X], friendship [X], creative ability, single-parent families [X], moving, household
This Is Kind Of An Epic Love Story
"Budding screenwriter Nate, sixteen, finds his conviction that happy endings do not happen in real life sorely tested when his childhood best friend and crush, Oliver James Hernandez, moves back to town"--Provided by publisher.
FIC
year: 2019
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: best friends [X], friendship [X], high schools, schools, mothers and sons, single-parent families [X], deaf, people with disabilities, bisexuality
I Speak Boy
Twelve-year-old Emmy is struggling to understand boys when she discovers a magic "app" that can read their thoughts, which soon drives a wedge between her and best friend Harper.
FIC
year: 2021
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 690
subjects: best friends [X], friendship [X], middle schools, schools, application software, cell phones, single-parent families [X], fantasy fiction