Jason Baskin is a high-functioning boy who identifies himself as autistic, he is a language wiz on paper, he can spell anything and write great stories but if you ask him to speak all is lost, especially with social interactions. He posts his stories on a website and soon he befriends a girl who ...
This book is about to girls that are best friends. Julia lives with her step sister Louisa that has a daughter that is Julia's age. Julia's mom is in the army so she lives with Eliza for the summers. During the summer they go to Mohawk the hotel Eliza's dad works at. The two twelve year old g...
I don't really know how I feel about this book. In thought it was well-written but it left me somewhat dissatisfied. I guess I had expected Natalie to learn something from the people she had encountered and not just read their stories and wonder if Natalie heard any of it and learned from them or...
Basketball clinics, a revolving door of coaches, incensed parents, and the importance of the right sneakers—is that what the game is about? Told from the perspective of four unlikely friends, Nora Raleigh Baskin's poignant novel focuses on the action, drama, and fun of playing ball and explores w...
An engaging misfit finds her way after the sudden death of a classmate has a profound effect on her. Her parents place her in an alternative boarding school where she has no choice but to learn about herself.
Twelve-year-old Gabby Weiss is in the market for a stepmother. If only her father would cooperate, Gabby would have someone to tell her what is and isn' t happening to her body. For awhile her father' s girlfriend, Cleo, forms a bond with Gabby. But when the adults break up, Gabby' s hopes for a ...
I put my fingers up to my throat and touched the pointy Star of David, my grandmother's necklace, a delicate chain made up of countless tiny links. If I wear this, will people think I am Jewish? Is that what I want to be? Seventh-grader Caroline Weeks has a Jewish mom and a non-Jewish dad. When...
Well, she had seven that might work. Okay, she had three real plans for getting back at Maggie. Two that were in any way doable—if she had superpowers. Still, lying in bed planning outrageous evil deeds was the only way Elizabeth could even imagine how she was going to go back to school Monday af...
That’s what getting up meant. A writer who has hundreds, thousands, of throw-ups, who has his name everywhere, all over a certain train line, is considered king of that line. But Max wanted more than that. He wanted to paint his masterpiece. He wanted people to talk about his work for years to co...
Her name was supposed to be Gwendolyn. At least, that’s what my mother told me when she and my dad left for the hospital. They came back the next day; my mother was holding the baby. I couldn’t see anything because she was so tiny, wrapped in a blanket like a Hot Pocket. “Here’s little baby Maggi...
I also had to hide my bathing suit in my bottom drawer, turn on the water in the shower so it looks like I took a shower, because my hair is so wet and there’s no way it will dry before Matoo gets home. Then just as I hear the front door lock turn I realize my hair will smell like chlorine anyway...