Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?browse=true&N=6594+4294967051 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1749199 Sixteen-year-old San Franciscan Lucy Beck-Moreau once had a promising future as a concert pianist. Her chance at a career has passed, and she decides to help her ten-year-old piano prodigy brother, Gus, map out his own future, even as she explores why she enjoyed piano in the first place.-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1727477 As the battle against the Black Wings and Their minions looms on the horizon, part-angel Clara Gardner is finally ready to fulfill her destiny, even though she knows she may have to make the ultimate sacrifice-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748881 Descended from witches, high school senior Nadia can tell as soon as her family moves to Captives Sound that the town is under a dark and powerful spell. Then she meets Mateo, the teenage local whose cursed dreams predict the future, and they must work together to prevent an impending disaster that threatens the entire town. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1699672 At college in New York City, Janie Johnson, aka Jennie Spring, seems to have successfully left behind her past as The face on the milk carton, but soon she, her families, and friends are pursued by a true-crime writer who wants their help in telling her kidnappers tale. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1703512 When her brother Rob, a Navy cook, goes missing in action in 1944, Jayna, desperate for family, leaves upstate New York and their cranky landlady, accompanied by a turtle and a ghost, to seek their grandmother, who Rob believes may live in Brooklyn. Includes soup recipes. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1749111 Amid preparations for their preppy Southern towns Founders Day celebration and their own shared sweet sixteen, sisters Isabelle Scott and Mirabelle Monroe long to break free from the tight constraints that come with being the daughters of a prominent public figure. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1699675 When her brother Rob, a Navy cook, goes missing in action during World War II, Jayna, desperate for family, leaves upstate New York and their cranky landlady, accompanied by a turtle and a ghost, to seek their grandmother, who Rob believes may live in Brooklyn. Includes soup recipes. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1749098 Sixteen-year-old Angie finds herself in her neighborhood with no recollection of her abduction or the three years that have passed since, until alternate personalities start telling her their stories through letters and recordings. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748439 For years, 10-year-old Zelly Fried has tried to convince her parents to let her have a dog. After all, practically everyone in Vermont owns a dog, and it sure could go a long way helping Zelly fit in since moving there from Brooklyn. But when her eccentric grandfather Ace hatches a ridiculous plan involving a practice dog named OJ, Zellys not so sure how far shes willing to go to win a dog of her own. Is Aces plan so crazy it just might work . . ... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1699602 In 1586 England, sixteen-year-old Mercy Hart, daughter of one of Londons wealthiest and most devout merchants, considers renouncing her family for love of Kit, a lowly actor and playboy, until Kit is accused of treason, testing Mercys resolve. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1641309 Seventeen-year-old Kate hopes for romance when her older brothers friend Richard comes to stay at their house during Christmas vacation. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1700566 In this lively celebration of Jewish traditions, a family must balance giving their children the freedom to make a mess and having a tidy home for Shabbos. On Sunday the Schmutzys drag in dirt from the malodorous Feldman Swamp. On Monday they make mud pies, and on Tuesday they smear spaghetti sauce. So it goes until Friday morning, when its time to be no-so-schmutzy. The family members soap, scour, and shower. And on Friday night they are ready to celebrate Shabbos with prayer, song, and supper. A glossary defines Yiddish words and an authors note explains Shabbos traditions. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1643502 Wealthy New York City high school student Jonathan and his upper-class friends spend their time dating, partying, and dealing with each others family problems. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1639457 Eleven-year-old Marcus is spending a week at the beach with his mother in a tiny old travel trailer, but boredom turns to terror when a new friend discovers a cellar that has magical doors through which people keep disappearing. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1641330 Thirteen-year-old Katie Sutton, a self-proclaimed expert on grown-up behavior, begins writing a users manual to help other teens train and operate their parents, but when her own mother starts dating Yellow Tie Man, Katie needs all of her expertise to get rid of him. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1561993 When a new glassblower arrives to help in the family business, the attraction Maria feels for him causes a web of conflicting emotions to grow even more tangled. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1644010 While a serial killer stalks his small Georgia town, sixteen-year-old Henry tries to find the truth about the terrible accident that robbed him of his mother and his memories, aided by his friend Justine but not by his distant father. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1573316 Follows a young boy as he helps to care for the new baby in his family. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1700060 When eleven-year-old Cat Kinsey builds a secret hideout to escape her unhappy homelife, she slowly gets to know a poor family who have come to California after losing their Texas home to the dust storms of the 1930s. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1574602 A fifteen-year-old boy struggles to survive and come to terms with inner conflicts in the desperate world of the Depression. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1561592 Fourth-grader Calvin flies from Oahu to the big island of Hawaii to go on a deep-sea fishing trip with Ledward, his mothers boyfriend, and learns to appreciate other living creatures-- especially one enormous marlin. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1644520 After surviving being possessed by a demon, sixteen-year-old Mia leaves her family in New York to stay with cousins in Milan, Italy, where she must study her familys heritage of demon catching in order to stay alive. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1643694 When Skyes cousin Hiroshi and his family move to Virginia from Japan, the cultural differences lead to misunderstandings and both children are unhappy at the changes in their lives--will flying the dragon kite finally bring them together? http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1711251 John Hayden, a death deity, takes seventeen-year-old Pierce Oliviera back to the Underworld against her will to keep her safe from the Furies, but her family is still at risk and she, herself, may never escape his captivity. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1573591 Worn down by the constant petitions of the villagers who think she has special powers, sixteen-year-old Sonia leaves behind her shawl covered with milagros and her mountain home and sets out to live a life of her own choosing in the capital city. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1703186 Isabelle Scotts life may not be easy, but she loves it. She is a star swimmer and lifeguard, has great friends, and has been spending the summer with Brayden, a cute surfer--though theyre just friends. But her grandmother, with whom shes lived since her mother died five years earlier, is declining quickly, and Izzies whole world is upended. Shes whisked away from the poor, rough neighborhood where she grew up to live with her aunt, uncle, and cousins in the exclusive Emerald Cove. Mirabelle Monroe leads a charmed life: her father is a former baseball star about to run for the United States Senate. Shes popular and beautiful and has a super cute jock boyfriend. But when her cousin, Izzie, comes to live with her family, her well-ordered world starts to unravel. It doesnt help that Miras best friend and queen bee, Savannah, hates Izzie from the start, maybe because Izzie seems to be so close to Savannahs boyfriend, Brayden. And Mira doesnt know whether to choose her friends and status at school or her family. As Izzie and Mira try to navigate their new lives, family secrets are dug up and the girls learn what friends and family truly mean. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1640670 As their cross-country journey with their parents continues through the midwest, twins Coke and Pepsi, now thirteen, again face strange assassins at such places as the first McDonalds restaurant and Cedar Point amusement park. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1640263 The six Bastable children try to restore their familys fortune using a variety of schemes taken from books, including finding buried treasure, rescuing someone from bandits, and starting a newspaper. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1639232 The story follows a young girl as she helps to care for the new baby in her family. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1727383 Anne is about to marry her childhood friend, Gilbert Blythe, and set up home with him in her house of dreams. Life really does seem perfect for a while, but suddenly Annes charmed life is touched by tragedy. Who would have thought that the honesty of her enigmatic friend, Leslie Moore, would help her to overcome her sorrow? http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1700211 When his widowed mother meets a man she wants to marry, thirteen-year-old Bernie decides he will go to live with his grandfather in Florida rather than live in the house with his new stepfather. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1639414 Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young women in nineteenth-century New England. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1643961 Nine-year-old Katie and her four-year-old brother, Tyler, have an emotional summer during which their father considers moving them to Portland and they are surprised by a visit with their mother, a country singer. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1644517 When a third person in three years goes missing, presumed dead, July Fourth weekend in Winston, California, sixteen-year-old budding fashion designer Clare Knight uses her gift of seeing visions of peoples pasts while touching their clothing to seek the truth, at risk of her own life. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1699579 Twelve-year-old Frankie Joe Huckaby, forced to live with the father he never knew, a stepmother, and four half-brothers in Illinois, starts a delivery service to finance his escape back to his mother in Texas, not realizing he is making a better life for himself than he ever had with her. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1573806 Angelina Neatolinis wish for a pet, denied by her family on the grounds that pets are too messy, is overheard by a hard-of-hearing ladybug, who fills their tidy new home with assorted pests. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1699112 1987 brings more changes for April Grace when Myra Sue starts acting very sneaky, her new baby brother comes home, her neighbor Isabel becomes her gym teacher, and a long-lost relative suddenly appears. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1644521 A Jewish teenager struggles to find something to believe in and keep his family together in the cultural confusion of modern-day Los Angeles-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1699127 While trying to hide an incriminating report card and dodge meddling siblings, fifth-grade twins Hunter and Zack set out to save their town from a diabolical dentist who is planning to blow it to smithereens. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1542822 With love and determination befitting the worlds greatest family, twelve-year-old Deza Malone, her older brother Jimmie, and their parents endure tough times in Gary, Indiana, and later Flint, Michigan during the Great Depression. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1699115 Eleven-year-old Jermaines quest for fame as the creator of a reality television show based on her less-than-exciting family and friends teaches her important lessons about unbridled ambition, selfishness, and the upside of ordinary. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1641279 The lucky penny in Judy Moodys pocket sure does seem to be working. She cant stop winning-at bowling, spelling, the unbeatable Prize Claw, everything! For sure and absolute positive, shell ride that wave of good fortune all the way to Washington, D.C.-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1703412 In 2083, seventeen-year-old Anya Balanchine seeks a way to make Balanchine Chocolate legitimate, and although a trip to Mexico gives her new insights and ideas, escaping her mobster familys legacy of violence may prove impossible. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1562351 Down on their luck, the Tooting family buys an old camper van and begins repairing it, but after installing an engine that once belonged to an extraordinary car, they are off to find other original parts, pursued by a sinister man who wants Chitty for himself. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1640259 When a Swiss couple and their four sons are shipwrecked on an isolated island, they adapt to their New Switzerland using many imaginative methods of farming and animal taming. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1541426 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1644016 When twelve-year-old Hailees family wins the lottery, her life changes in unexpected--and not always good--way. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1643814 When her pet dog Zoe is diagnosed as overweight, Kate tells her mother that kids at school call her fat and dont want to be friends with her, leading the whole family to adopt a healthier lifestyle through diet and exercise. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1542560 In 1898, Moses Thomass summer vacation does not go exactly as planned as he contends with family problems and the ever-changing alliances among his friends at the same time as he is exposed to the escalating tension between the African-American and white communities of Wilmington, North Carolina. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1640111 Taking the family sailboat on a summer-long trip excites everyone except sixteen-year-old Clementine, who feels stranded with her parents and younger sister and guilty over a falling-out with her best friend. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1642644 Seventh-grader Georges adjusts to moving from a house to an apartment, his fathers efforts to start a new business, his mothers extra shifts as a nurse, being picked on at school, and Safer, a boy who wants his help spying on another resident of their building. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1639220 When Alice-Miranda goes home to her familys lavish estate for the school holidays, along with her best friend Jacinta, their break is not exactly what they expected because of a cranky boy causing mischief, a visiting movie star, a snooping stranger, and a grandmother with a family secret. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1711217 In 1893 New York, thirteen-year-old Maks, a newsboy, teams up with Willa, a homeless girl, to clear his older sister, Emma, from charges that she stole from the brand new Waldorf Hotel, where she works. Includes historical notes. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1643483 Meet the Mudcrusts! Lowbrow Mudcrust is the lumbering, lazy head of the family, who is happiest when he is squelching his toes in the slime. That doesnt stop his wife Flora from nagging him and reminding him that hes not the chief of the tribe. Their two children, Bogweed and Fungus, are always fighting. Although Fungus doesnt have Bogweeds brute strength, he does have more brains. The first book in the Mudcrusts series, Dirty Deeds follows the quest of Flora to move out of their hut into a nice cave with a view... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1639556 When their father is taken away by strangers, the lives of three children are altered forever. They move with their mother to a cottage by a railway. The railway becomes their playground, and they befriend the rail workers and passengers who eventually help to reunite them with their father. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1542717 Mattie, a shy fifth-grader, wants to hide out at her new school by acting as apprentice to her Uncle Potluck, the custodian, but her plan falls apart when she summons the courage to speak about what matters most and finds a true friend. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1574744 Sixteen-year-old London Lane forgets everything each night and must use notes to struggle through the day, but she remembers future events and as her flashforwards become more disturbing she realizes she must learn more about the past lest it destroy her future. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1710645 In 1899, ten-year-old Robbie, son of a preacher in a small Vermont town, gets himself into all kinds of trouble when he decides to give up being Christian in order to make the most of his life before the end of the world. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1710534 Greg Heffley tells about his summer vacation and his attempts to steer clear of trouble when he returns to middle school and tries to keep his older brother Rodrick from telling everyone about Gregs most humiliating experience of the summer. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1710451 Third-grader Clementine tries to adjust to the news that her perfect family of four is adding a new brother or sister. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1710535 Middle-schooler Greg Heffley nimbly sidesteps his fathers attempts to change Gregs wimpy ways until his father threatens to send him to military school. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1541780 Esta novela cuenta la deliciosa historia de una familia dominicana, instalada en Vermont, que recibe la visita de una pariente muy especial. La irresistible, incontrolable e incluso mgica ta Lola transforma la vida de su familia. Sombreros, pauelos, vestidos alegres, tacones, maracas, un tambor para las fiestas, caf, hierbabuena, organo, ans, hojas de guanbana, ajes--su alegra invade la casa y--poco a poco--a todo el pueblo. Un relato rico, clido y lleno de humor que nos llevar a soar con la posibilidad de tener una ta tan entraable como ta Lola. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1541684 Collects three novels by the author, in which teenagers find compassion, strength, and love while recovering from tragic circumstances. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1710885 Mourning the loss of his mother, nine-year-old David forms an unlikely friendship with independent, quirky thirteen-year-old Primrose, as the two help each other deal with what is missing in their lives. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1542898 Myra, a high school senior, will do almost anything to win a contest and earn money for a study trip to the Galapagos Islands, which would mean getting away from her demanding family life in Utah and ex-boyfriend Erik, but Erik is set on winning the same contest. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1709274 Orphaned Rose Campbell finds it difficult to fit in when she goes to live with her six aunts and seven mischievous boy cousins. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1642791 Twelve-year-old Theo uses arcane knowledge and her own special talent when she encounters two secret societies, one sworn to protect the world from ancient Egyptian magic and one planning to harness it to bring chaos to the world, both of which want a valuable artifact stolen from the London museum for which her parents work. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1573466 When Xander travels through the portals in the Kings strange house to visit Uncle Jesse as a boy, he learns that David has died and determines to do whatever it takes, and visit as many worlds as necessary, to change the future. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1710914 As a slag heap, the result of strip mining, creeps closer to his house in the Ohio hills, fifteen-year-old M.C. is torn between trying to get his family away and fighting for the home they love. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1573529 When summer comes around, its off to the beach for Rosalind ... and off to Maine with Aunt Claire for the rest of the Penderwick girls, as well as their old friend, Jeffrey. That leaves Skye as OAP (oldest available Penderwick)--a terrifying notion for all, but for Skye especially. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1710955 While twelve-year-old Rosemary observes life in 1790 North Carolina, she knows that she can choose to be what she has to be and that doing so will make her different. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1543052 Fourth-grader Cal learns a lot about teasing and standing up for others when a weird new student joins his class, while Stella, the tenth-grader who lives with Cals family to help his mother, practices for her driving test. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1709275 Recounts the further adventures, successes, and failures of the numerous young men of Plumfield school. Sequel to Little Men. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1542727 Eleven-year-old Calli, the third child in a family of busy high-achievers, likes to take her time and observe rather than rush around, and when she meets an awkward, insecure second-grader named Noah and is paired with him in the Peer Helper Program, she finds satisfaction and strength in working with him. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1710475 A series of poems describes all the baffling changes at home and at school in twelve-year-old Joylins transition from tomboy basketball player to not-quite-girly girl. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1562123 Sixteen-year-old Maya suspects there may be a relationship between her paw-print birthmark, her connection with wild animals, and strange events occurring in her tiny Vancouver Island community, where a medical research facility harbors big secrets. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1542202 Ten-year-old Mallorys crush on J.T., a boy in her older brothers class, gets her in trouble with her teacher, her family, and her friends but no matter what she does, J.T. does not seem interested in her. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1252739 Lena looks forward to receiving the government-mandated cure that prevents the delirium of love and leads to a safe, predictable, and happy life, until ninety-five days before her eighteenth birthday and her treatment, when she falls in love. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1699321 Instead of the relaxing summer she expected, Katy and her worldly friend Shelby wind up helping at Aunt Rebeccas store while she undergoes treatment for cancer, and Katys personal life is complicated by a boy who comes to visit. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1560354 Fifth grader Mattie Breen is not looking forward to being the new kid at school. However, she has a plan that will allow her to skip out on lunch and recess. She has just two weeks to convince Potluck, the school custodian, to take her under his wing as his apprentice. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1542807 Married, pregnant, and living at a fat camp in Maine, sixteen-year-old Eleanor has many questions about her future, especially whether the marriage will last and if she should keep the baby. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1574692 When twelve-year-old Elise, orphaned since age nine, becomes disheartened by middle school, with its bullies, changing relationships, and higher expectations, keys to long-locked rooms and messages from her late father help her cope. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1710783 In the small town of Baylor, Kentucky, twelve-year-old Jessie K. Bovey and her friends confront some of lifes questions during their summer vacation in the late 1960s. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1710732 Haunted by flashbacks, fifteen-year-old Meredith learns that three years in prison has not changed the abusive father who molested her. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1574455 In 1955 Hadley, Virginia, twelve-year-old Dawnie Rae Johnson, a tomboy who excels at baseball and at her studies, becomes the first African American student to attend the all-white Prettyman Coburn school, turning her world upside down. Includes historical notes about the period. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1710906 In Acton, Oregon, sisters Alex, Stevie, and Joey take turns telling about their lives, including their long line of actor ancestors, creative family dinners, toe marshmallows, swearing in Shakespeare, and the Sisters Club. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1711152 While sorting through difficulties in her friendship with her neighbor Margaret, eight-year-old Clementine gains several unique hairstyles while also helping her father in his efforts to banish pigeons from the front of their apartment building. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1710744 While spending a bird-watching summer on Fire Island, the Pye family acquires a small black kitten that can use a typewriter. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1710607 When his father is arrested as a debtor in 1849 London, fourteen-year-old John Huffman must take on unexpected responsibilities, from asking a distant relative for help to determining why people are spying on him and his family. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1388447 When a consumer-driven future society runs amok, unleashing near-cosmic forces, Mal and Laura search for their families only to find that something or someone has erased them from the memories of everyone they have ever known. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1561730 Fifteen-year-old twins Hayley and Taylor Ryan of Port Gamble, WA, known as Empty Coffin because of a local legend, investigate a former friends Christmas suicide and, along the way, discover a secret from their own past. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1539911 Larkin Pace, a film-obsessed high school freshman, chronicles his experiences as he tries to raise money for a new camcorder and get a date with the girl who has been his best friend since third grade. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1710680 In 1878, twelve-year-old Ida Kate and her widowed father welcome a mail-order bride and her baby to their Kansas homestead, but Ida Kate soon suspects that the bride is not the woman with whom Papa has corresponded. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1562062 Lena looks forward to receiving the government-mandated cure that prevents the delirium of love and leads to a safe, predictable, and happy life, until ninety-five days before her eighteenth birthday and her treatment, when she falls in love. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1368672 Thirteen-year-old Steven has a totally normal life (well, almost): He plays drums in the All-Star Jazz Band, has a crush on the hottest girl in school (who doesnt know hes alive), frequently finds himself sitting across from his school counselor (who bribes him with candy), and is constantly annoyed by his five-year-old brother, Jeffrey (who is cuter than cute). Oh, Steven has parents, too (the kind that embarrass him)... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1642193 Willa seems to have a perfect life as a member of a loving blended family until the estranged father she barely remembers murders his wife and children, then heads toward Willa and her mother. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1270264 On a cross-country vacation with their parents, twins Coke and Pepsi, soon to be thirteen, fend off strange assassins as they try to come to terms with their being part of a top-secret government organization known as The Genius Files. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1539329 Gary the lizard and his parents have a fun day together--Unedited summary from book. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1540859 In a small Florida mining town in 1966, twelve-year-old Dewey faces one worst-day-ever after another, but comes to know that the issues he faces about bullies, girls, race, and identity are part of the adult world, as well. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1709470 Share with the Robinsons--a minister, his wife, and four sons--as they survive a shipwreck and then adapt to life on an island populated by exotic birds and animals. Through small successes and disappointments, not only does this courageous family survive, but comes to find a happiness that eluded them in their civilized homeland.