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2) Bliss
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
444 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Having grown up in a California commune, Bliss sees her aloof grandmother's Atlanta world as a foreign country, but she is determined to be nice as a freshman at an elite high school, which makes her the perfect target for Sandy, a girl obsessed with the occult.
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
1st Simon Pulse hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"With her Grandmother dying, Caroline is given a choice to either stay by her Gram's side or go to the biggest party of the year. The story is told in alternating chapters, revealing what happens if Caroline stays or goes"--
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
276 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
On her sixteenth birthday, Sky and River, the boy with whom she has shared Island since she was a toddler, are "rescued" and taken to California, where Sky is separated from River, forced to live with a grandmother she has just met, and learn new rules for survival.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
313 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Upon learning on Christmas Day that their rich and imperious grandmother may soon die and disown the family unless the one who offended her deeply will confess, each of the three Sullivan sisters sets down her offenses on paper.
6) Carpe diem
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
360 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Vassar Spore's detailed plans for the next twenty years of her life are derailed when her bohemian grandmother insists that she join her in Southeast Asia for the summer, but as she writes a novel about her experiences, Vassar discovers new possibilities.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
1997.
Physical Desc
271 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
Emily Rose has always felt comfortable growing up in Connecticut with her African American mother and her "French American" father, but when they spend some time with her great-grandmother in Texas, Emily Rose learns about her black heritage and uncovers some new and exciting parts of her own identity.
Author
Series
Magnolia League novels volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
348 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After the death of her free-spirited mother, sixteen-year-old Alexandra Lee is forced to move from Northern California to Savannah, Georgia, to live with her wealthy grandmother, who expects Alex to join a long-standing debutante society, which, Alex learns, has made a pact with a legendary Hoodoo family.
10) Toning the sweep
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
[1993]
Physical Desc
103 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
On a visit to her grandmother Ola, who is dying of cancer in her house in the desert, fourteen-year-old Emmie hears many stories about the past and her family history and comes to a better understanding of relatives both dead and living.
11) The chaos
Author
Publisher
Chicken House/Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
339 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Like his mother, Jem, when sixteen-year-old Adam looks in people's eyes he can see the dates of their deaths and now he sees the same date, six months in the future, in nearly everyone around him in the London of 2026.
Author
Series
Alexander Cold trilogy volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
406 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
When fifteen-year-old Alexander Cold accompanies his individualistic grandmother on an expedition to find a humanoid Beast in the Amazon, he experiences ancient wonders and a supernatural world as he tries to avert disaster for the Indians.
13) Mare's war
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Teens Octavia and Tali learn about strength, independence, and courage when they are forced to take a car trip with their grandmother, who tells about growing up Black in 1940s Alabama and serving in Europe during World War II as a member of the Women's Army Corps.
14) The fight
Author
Series
Drama High volume 1
Publisher
Kensington Pub. Corp
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
202 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When sixteen-year-old Jayd Jackson returns to South Bay High, she discovers that her former best friend is out to get her and her ex-boyfriend's new girlfriend wants to fight, which forces Jayd to turn to Mama and her bag of tricks for help.
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