When her father's death results in the loss of her house and garden and a move into a shabby apartment house, twelve-year-old Maryanne adjusts with the help of new friends and a new garden

Nothing Grows Here

Teen & Young Adult

Thesman, Jean

Literature & Fiction

Harpercollins Childrens Books

After her father's death, Maryanne dearly misses their shared  garden and feels disheartened by her new, boxy, apartment home, but  when she plants a garden of her own, she begins to grow again. By the  author of The Rain Catchers. 

Harpercollins

Fifteen-year-old Quinn, the middle child in a Depression-era working class family, learns some secrets about her beloved father, who has always been a source of strength and optimism for his family, friends, and neighbors. Reprint.

The Storyteller's Daughter

Historical Fiction

Puffin

The Moonstones

While helping her mother clean out the family home in Puget Sound, fifteen-year-old Jane must deal with her hateful aunt and difficult cousin Ricki, a romance that cannot last, and secrets from her mother's past.

For as long as she can remember, Bridget has been able to do things other people can't-read minds, move objects without touching them, hear the songs and stories the wind and rain tell. She has pushed her powers down for years, trying to be like her "normal" classmates. Then baffling, fragile Althea Peale comes to town, and Bridget is forced to choose. She is the only one who has the power to help Althea, or to hurt her.... "A quiet and thought-provoking coming-of-age story, delightfully flavored with touches of humor, romance, and teenage angst."-VOYA

The Other Ones

Puffin Books

Calling the Swan

For years, since something dreadful happened to the Deacon family, Skylar Deacon's parents have hated to let her out of their sight for even a moment, and now, going to summer school, facing kids she does not know and the truth about what happened to her family, has made things even harder for her. Reprint.

Social Issues

Set in San Francisco in the early 1900s, orphaned Kate walks her way into the life of sickly Jolie as her maid and nurse, and soon the two become friends and head out on an adventure to Ireland where Kate must remain quiet about the secret she has been told by Jolie's father. Reprint.

A Sea So Far

Speak

Having been hidden in an abbey for years in order to be protected from her evil mother Rhiamon, Gwenore is forced to flee the abbey and change her name after her whereabouts are discovered, but despite a new identity, a king for a husband, and several beautiful children, Gwenore knows that her mother is still out there somewhere and so has to find a way to keep her family safe at all costs. Reprint.

Singer

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Fantasy

Firebird

Sixteen-year-old Cat St. John tries to come to terms with the growing evidence of her father's mental illness and his eventual suicide

The Last April Dancers

Flare

Appointment With a Stranger

Deeply self-concious about her severe asthma attacks, high school student Keller Parrish finds solace in the company of an attractive but mysterious boy at a remote pond, unaware that he is an insubstantial echo of a forty-year-old tragedy

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Nothing Grows Here

Nothing Grows Here

The Storyteller's Daughter

The Moonstones

The Other Ones

Calling the Swan

A Sea So Far

Singer

The Last April Dancers

Appointment With a Stranger