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Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Just before spending her sixteenth summer on Cape Cod, Sarah's boyfriend breaks up with her and, as a scientist whose focus is on winning a scholarship through her study of a comet, she designs an experiment to become more like her older sister to see if she, too, can be popular.
Author
Series
Publisher
Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Second-grader Hailey's frustration over a school project releases Maybelle, a sprite whose punishment for being a rulemonger will end when she grants Hailey's wish to have fun, but Maybelle's efforts only seem to cause trouble.
Author
Publisher
Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Sally Gifford, a Patriot shoemaker's daughter, tries to maintain her close friendship with Kitty Lawton, the daughter of a Loyalist official, as pre-Revolutionary War tensions in 1773 Boston increase and push them apart.
24) Razzle
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
When his retired parents buy a group of tourist cabins on Cape Cod, fifteen-year-old Kenyon Baker's days are filled with repair work until he becomes friends with an eccentric girl and makes her the subject of a series of photographs.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
A fictionalized episode from the life of Anne Hutchinson, who arrived with her family in Massachusetts in 1634, but was soon banished for holding religious meetings and teaching ideas with which Puritan ministers disagreed.
27) My Uncle Emily
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
In 1881 Amherst, Massachusetts, six-year-old Gilbert finds it both challenging and wonderful to spend time with his aunt, the reclusive poet Emily Dickinson, who lives next door.
28) I, Emma Freke
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Growing up near Boston with her free-spirited mother and old-world grandfather, twelve-year-old Emma has always felt out of place but when she attends the family reunion her father's family holds annually in Wisconsin, she is in for some surprises.
31) Firehorse
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Spirited fifteen-year-old horse lover Rachel Selby determines to become a veterinarian, despite the opposition of her rigid father, her proper mother, and the norms of Boston in 1872, while that city faces a serial arsonist and an epidemic spreading through its firehorse population.
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Follows the experiences over the course of a year of five-year-old Charlotte Tucker, who would grow up to become the grandmother of Laura Ingalls Wilder, living with her family in Roxbury, Massachusetts, during the War of 1812.
33) Girl parts
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
The lives of Charlie, wealthy and popular but still lonely, and Charlie, a soulful outsider, intersect when Rose, the female Companion bot Charlie's parents buy to treat his dissociative disorder, forms a bond with David.
34) For keeps
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Just as sixteen-year-old Josie and her mother finally begin trusting men enough to start dating seriously, the father Josie never knew comes back to town and shakes up what was already becoming a difficult mother-daughter relationship.
Author
Series
Cheesie Mack ; 4
Publisher
Yearling Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Cheesie and Georgie unearth an artifact from Colonial times and become middle school celebrities.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
French horn virtuoso Elsie Wyatt resents having to join her high school's marching band playing a melliphone, but finally finds a sense of belonging that transcends the pressure she has always felt to be as good as her father, principal french horn player in the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
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