Bibliography: Williams, Carol Lynch. (May 2009). The Chosen One. New York: St. Martin’s Press. ISBN: 9780312555115
Plot summary: 13 year old Kyra loves her family, all twenty of her brothers and sisters, and even her three mothers. She has never questioned their polygamous way of life unless sneaking visits to the mobile library to read The [...]
Bibliography: Shaw, Tucker. (2009). The Girls. New York: Amulet Books. ISBN: 9780810983489
Plot Summary: An homage to Clare Luce Booth’s play The Women featuring instead of wealthy socialites, privileged girls living at an elite Aspen, Colorado boarding school. There’s good girl Mary, mean girl Sylvia, gossip Amber, cheating Crystal and Peggy, relative newcomer who feels stuck [...]
DiCamillo, Kate, and Timothy B. Ering. 2003. The tale of Despereaux: being the story of a mouse, a princess, some soup, and a spool of thread. Cambridge, Mass: Candlewick Press. ISBN: 0763617229.
Plot Summary:
Despereaux Tilling was a very small mouse with huge ears whose mother was surprised to see him live past birth. His older siblings [...]
Bibliography: McGill, Nichole. (2009). Girl #3. Toronto: Key Porter Books. ISBN: 978-1554701438
Plot Summary: Canadian high school sophomore Syd (short for Sidonia) loves running track and her bike and her newspaper route. She loves the trees in the ravine. And anything that irritates her mother. She has to wear an ugly dress as a bridesmaid in [...]