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  Red Kayak

  by Priscilla Cummings

  Brady loves life on the Chesapeake Bay with his friends J.T. and Digger. But developers and rich families are moving into the area, and while Brady befriends some of them, like the DiAngelos, his parents and friends are bitter about the changes. Tragedy strikes when the DiAngelos’ kayak overturns in the bay, and Brady wonders if it was more than an accident. Soon, Brady discovers the terrible truth behind the... (more)
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  Middle School Is Worse Than Meatloaf

  A Year Told Through Stuff

  by Jennifer L. Holm

  Ginny has ten items on her big to-do list for seventh grade. None of them, however, include accidentally turning her hair pink. Or getting sent to detention for throwing frogs in class. Or losing the lead role in the ballet recital to her ex-best friend. Or the thousand other things that can go wrong between September and June. But it looks like it's shaping up to be that kind of a year! Here's the story of one... (more)
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  Perfect

  A Novel

  by Natasha Friend

  Following her father's death a thirteen year old girl uses bulimia as a way to avoid her mother's and ten year old sister's grief, as well as her own.
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  Click Here (to find out how i survived seventh grade)

  by Denise Vega

  Imagine if all your personal thoughts about crushes, fears, enemies, and even kissing practice ended up on the internet for everyone to read! That's what happens to Erin Swift when her secret blog lands on the school Web site. As if navigating the treacherous waters of seventh grade weren't enough! Writing with warm, knowing humor, first-time novelist Denise Vega perfectly captures life from a seventh grade girl's... (more)
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  Behold a Pale Horse

  by Milton William Cooper

  The author, former U.S. Naval Intelligence Briefing Team Member, reveals information kept secret by our government since the 1940s. UFOs, the J.F.K.. assassination, the Secret Government, the war on drugs and more by the world's leading expert on UFOs.
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  Ten Ways To Make My Sister Disappear

  by Norma Fox Mazer

  Everything ten year-old Sprig wants, her older sister Dakota already has. Everything Sprig does, Dakota does better. And anytime Sprig complains, Dakota just grins and calls her a baby. It’s enough to make a kid wish her sister would disappear. But in a year when Sprig’s father is away, her favorite neighbor is ill, and the class bully is acting almost like, well, a boyfriend, Sprig discovers that allies come... (more)
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  The Definitive Book of Body Language

  by Allan Pease, Barbara Pease

  Available for the first time in the United States, this international bestseller reveals the secrets of nonverbal communication to give you confidence and control in any face-to-face encounter–from making a great first impression and acing a job interview to finding the right partner. It is a scientific fact that people’s gestures give away their true intentions. Yet most of us don’t know how to read body... (more)
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  The King in the Window

  by Adam Gopnik

  Oliver Parker, a twelve-year-old American boy living in Paris, is lonelier than he has ever been. Intimidated by his French school and its prickly teachers, and made melancholy by the long, gray winter, Oliver longs for some friends, and maybe even a little adventure. One dark and freezing January night, his wishes are granted. After dinner, Oliver puts on the gold paper crown that came in his Epiphany cake.... (more)
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  The Princess and the Pauper

  by Kate Brian

  SHABBY . . . CHIC?Carina, a real European princess, is dying to hook up with the sexy American rock star she met online. Too bad about all those bodyguards watching her every move. Then Carina spots her down-and-out-near-twin, Julia. For a fast ten grand, Julia grabs the gown and the crown, and the girls swap for a day.Before long Princess Carina is trapped on a skeevy bus full of roadies, and... (more)
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  Prom

  by Laurie Halse Anderson

  "There are tons of books about the popular kids and some books about geeks. How many books are there about average kids? Kids that are passing, aren't in clubs and have no clue what they will do after high school. Ashley is an average kid. She has a boyfriend that everyone thinks is trouble but she's crazy about, and she has a part time that she doesn't like. On top of everything else she has an over-crowded house... (more)
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  Finding Miracles (Readers Circle)

  by Julia Alvarez

  MILLY KAUFMAN IS an ordinary American teenager living in Vermont—until she meets Pablo, a new student at her high school. His exotic accent, strange fashion sense, and intense interest in Milly force her to confront her identity as an adopted child from Pablo’s native country. As their relationship grows, Milly decides to undertake a courageous journey to her homeland and along the way discovers the story of her... (more)
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  The Upon a Marigold Series: Book 2

  Twice Upon a Marigold

  by Jean Ferris

  Since Queen Olympia's fateful fall into the river, newlyweds Christian and Marigold have been living happily ever after. And they had every intention of keeping it that way--until they find out that Olympia may not be as gone as they thought. Turns out Olympia is alive and well in a faraway village, having lost her memory after her ill-timed tumble. But one day she awakes and remembers her previous glory as queen.... (more)
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  Love Among the Walnuts

  Or How I Saved My Family from Being Poisoned

  by Jean Ferris

  Sandy Huntington-Ackerman didn't expect life to be a free ride (even though his parents are multimillionaires). He certainly didn't expect his two money-grubbing uncles to try to kill his family with a drugged birthday cake. Luckily for Sandy, the cake only sends his parents (and their pet chicken, Attila) into a coma. Along with a loyal butler and a wacky nurse from the asylum next door, Sandy is determined to... (more)
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  The II AM Trilogy: Book 1

  The Blood That Bonds

  by Christopher Buecheler

  Two is trapped: hooked on heroin, held as property, forced to sell her body to feed the addiction. Time brings her ever closer to what seems an inevitable death and Two waits, uncaring, longing only for the next fix. That’s when Theroen arrives, beckoning to his Ferrari and grinning his inscrutable grin. He is handsome. Confident. Eager to help lift her out of the life that’s grinding her down. The only problem?... (more)
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  Monster in the Mirror

  by MJA Ware

  For a limited time comes with a free short story. That's two great short stories for the price of one. Could there be a hidden room somewhere in your house? And just what would you find in there? This short story revolves around Nate, his little sister, and his buddy Dan, who stumble upon a hidden room during a sleep-over. What they find in there is anything but friendly. The bonus short story, Steven Space... (more)
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  Heirs of Kilronan: Book 1

  Earl of Darkness

  by Alix Rickloff

  The magic she tries to hide… Born a lady, but reduced to surviving in the slums of Dublin, Catriona O’Connell has been hired to steal a mysterious book from Aidan Douglas, Earl of Kilronan. But Cat is secretly Other, an age-old mixture of Fey and human—something Aidan recognizes immediately when he surprises the lovely young burglar in his library, about to steal a magical diary. …is the magic... (more)
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  Blood Hunt

  by Ian Rankin

  As a former soldier, Gordon Reeve knows something about killing. So despite the fact that the death of his brother Jim has been ruled a suicide, Gordon can't shake the feeling that someone is responsible. Traveling alone across an ocean, he arrives in California determined to get answers: Why was the car Jim's body was found in locked from the outside? Who would want Jim dead? And now why do the local cops seem... (more)
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  The Secret Garden

  by Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Mary is an unhappy orphan forced to live in the home of a wealthy guardian — a busy man who has no time at all for her. But when Mary meets her guardian's mysterious son — and discovers a secret garden hidden on the estate-a startling change begins to come over her. And life for everyone is never quite the same.
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  A Stolen Life

  A Memoir

  by Jaycee Lee Dugard

  In the summer of 1991, I was a normal kid. I did normal things. I had friends and a mother who loved me. I was just like you. Until the day my life was stolen. For eighteen years I was a prisoner. I was an object for someone to use and abuse. For eighteen years I was not allowed to speak my own name. I became a mother and was forced to be a sister. And eighteen years I survived an impossible situation. On August... (more)
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  The Hunger Games: Book 1

  The Hunger Games

  by Suzanne Collins

  MAY THE ODDS BE EVER IN YOUR FAVOR.In the ruins of a place once known as the Rocky Mountains in North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. In the previous war the Capitol took over and now, the Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl from each district, between the ages of twelve... (more)