Seattle lives with Critter, his mother and another brother after her father walked out on them. Matt, a young cabin boy aboard an airship, and Kate, a wealthy young girl traveling with a chaperone, search for the existence of mysterious winged creatures reportedly living hundreds of feet above the Earth’s surface.Ī story told in the alternating voices of fifteen year old Seattle and her seventeen year old stepbrother, Critter. Duncan, suffering from guilt because of a tragic event in his life, and depressed over breaking up with his girlfriend, feels he is meant to figure out who the journal belongs to and stop him. The journal turns out to be the plans of a would-be serial killer, which details his past and possibly future crimes.

Over the course of the year, both the Penhallows and the Darks face many changes as they scheme and plot to win the jug.ĭuncan works in the Toronto subway system in the lost and found office, a job he considers excruciatingly boring until the day he begins to read a lost journal. But the name of the jug’s new owner will not be revealed for one year. When Aunt Becky, the eccentric old matriarch of the Dark and Penhallow families, dies everyone wonders to whom she will leave her prized possession: a legendary heirloom jug. Her story is filled with good humor, fine storytelling, and acute observations of small town life. A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Moreland Indiana by Haven Kimmelī, B Born in 1965 in Moreland, Indiana, Zippy (named after a frenetic monkey) lived in a world filled with a loving family, peculiar neighbors, and a multitude of animals. No one has ever been able to see Helen until a student begins to talk to her.ģ. She has been dead for 130 years and is currently haunting an English teacher who shares her love of literature. This novel is an intriguing blend of ghost story and romance. A Certain Slant of Light by Laura Whitcomb

Written in verse, this is a short, powerful, but not preachy book.Ģ. The first girl decides to warn other girls by writing a warning in the back of the library’s copy of Judy Blume’s Forever.

Three girls, one a high school freshman, another who thinks she is in control by choosing which boy to sleep with, and a third who sees herself as different but sensible, all get “played” by the same smooth jock. A Bad Boy Can be Good for a Girl by Tanya Lee Stone

Love among the walnuts by jean ferris