Chick Lit Books for Girls in Grades 6-8

What Do Girls Want? Romance Girl Power Adventure Mystery Real Life Problems Sad Stories

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Girl Power

Adventure

Mystery

Real Life Problems

Sad Stories

Romance Do you hear this statement from your girls? I want a book like Twilight.

Do you hear this statement from your girls?

I want a book like Twilight.

Romance Beastly by Alex Flinn HarperTeen,2007 ISBN-13: 978-0-06-087416-2 Interest Level: YA A modern retelling of "Beauty and the Beast" from the point of view of the Beast, a vain Manhattan private school student, who is turned into a monster and must find true love before he can return to his human form.

Beastly by Alex Flinn

HarperTeen,2007

ISBN-13: 978-0-06-087416-2

Interest Level: YA

A modern retelling of "Beauty and the Beast" from the point of view of the Beast, a vain Manhattan private school student, who is turned into a monster and must find true love before he can return to his human form.

Romance Lily Dale : Awakening By Wendy Corsi Staub Walker, 2007 ISBN-13: 978-0-8027-9654-7 Interest Level: YA When seventeen-year-old Calla's mother suddenly dies, she goes to stay with her psychic grandmother in Lily Dale, she discovers secrets about her practical, down-to-earth mother, and realizes that she herself may also have some psychic abilities.

Lily Dale : Awakening

By Wendy Corsi Staub

Walker, 2007

ISBN-13: 978-0-8027-9654-7

Interest Level: YA

When seventeen-year-old Calla's mother suddenly dies, she goes to stay with her psychic grandmother in Lily Dale, she discovers secrets about her practical, down-to-earth mother, and realizes that she herself may also have some psychic abilities.

Romance Avalon High By Meg Cabot Harper Collins, p2006 ISBN-13: 978-0-06-075587-4 Interest Level: YA Having moved to Annapolis, Maryland, with her medievalist parents, high school junior Ellie enrolls at Avalon High School where several students may or may not be reincarnations of King Arthur and his court.

Avalon High

By Meg Cabot

Harper Collins, p2006

ISBN-13: 978-0-06-075587-4

Interest Level: YA

Having moved to Annapolis, Maryland, with her medievalist parents, high school junior Ellie enrolls at Avalon High School where several students may or may not be reincarnations of King Arthur and his court.

Romance A Kiss in Time By Alex Flinn HarperTeen, 2009 ISBN-13: 978-0-06-087419-3 Interest Level: YA Sixteen-year-old Princess Talia persuades Jack, the modern-day American who kissed her awake after a three-hundred-year sleep, to take her to his Miami home, where she hopes to win his love before the witch who cursed her can spirit her away.

A Kiss in Time

By Alex Flinn

HarperTeen, 2009

ISBN-13: 978-0-06-087419-3

Interest Level: YA

Sixteen-year-old Princess Talia persuades Jack, the modern-day American who kissed her awake after a three-hundred-year sleep, to take her to his Miami home, where she hopes to win his love before the witch who cursed her can spirit her away.

Romance The Breakup Bible : a Novel By Melissa Kantor Publisher: Hyperion, 2007 ISBN-13: 978-0-7868-0962-2 Interest Level: YA After a breakup with her boyfriend, school newspaper editor Jen Lewis receives a book from her grandmother that provides basic commandments for getting over an ex and sets out to recover from the loss of the romance.

The Breakup Bible : a Novel

By Melissa Kantor

Publisher: Hyperion, 2007

ISBN-13: 978-0-7868-0962-2

Interest Level: YA

After a breakup with her boyfriend, school newspaper editor Jen Lewis receives a book from her grandmother that provides basic commandments for getting over an ex and sets out to recover from the loss of the romance.

Romance The Unlikely Romance of Kate Bjorkman by Louise Plummer. Publisher: Laurel-Leaf, 1997 ISBN-13: 978-0-440-22704-5 Interest Level: YA Seventeen-year-old Kate hopes for romance when her older brother's friend Richard comes to stay at their house during Christmas vacation.

The Unlikely Romance of Kate Bjorkman

by Louise Plummer.

Publisher: Laurel-Leaf, 1997

ISBN-13: 978-0-440-22704-5

Interest Level: YA

Seventeen-year-old Kate hopes for romance when her older brother's friend Richard comes to stay at their house during Christmas vacation.

Romance Partly cloudy : Poems of Love and Longing By Gary Soto Publisher: Harcourt, 2009, ISBN-13: 978-0-15-206301-6 Interest Level: YA A humorous collection of poetry told from the point of view of both boys and girls who share their emotions about first loves, crushes, and broken hearts.

Partly cloudy : Poems of Love

and Longing

By Gary Soto

Publisher: Harcourt, 2009,

ISBN-13: 978-0-15-206301-6

Interest Level: YA

A humorous collection of poetry told from the point of view of both boys and girls who share their emotions about first loves, crushes, and broken hearts.

Romance Dairy Queen by Catherine Gilbert Murdock Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, 2006 ISBN-13: 978-0-618-86335-8 Interest Level: YA After spending her summer running the family farm and training the quarterback for her school's rival football team, sixteen-year-old D.J. decides to go out for the sport herself, not anticipating the reactions of those around her.

Dairy Queen

by Catherine Gilbert Murdock

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, 2006

ISBN-13: 978-0-618-86335-8

Interest Level: YA

After spending her summer running the family farm and training the quarterback for her school's rival football team, sixteen-year-old D.J. decides to go out for the sport herself, not anticipating the reactions of those around her.

Romance The Off Season by Catherine Gilbert Murdock Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, 2008 ISBN-13: 978-0-618-68695-7 Interest Level: YA Sequel to: Dairy queen. High school junior D. J. Schwenk staggers under the weight of caring for her badly injured brother, her responsibilities on the dairy farm, a changing relationship with her friend Brian and her own athletic aspirations.

The Off Season

by Catherine Gilbert Murdock

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, 2008

ISBN-13: 978-0-618-68695-7

Interest Level: YA

Sequel to: Dairy queen. High school junior D. J. Schwenk staggers under the weight of caring for her badly injured brother, her responsibilities on the dairy farm, a changing relationship with her friend Brian and her own athletic aspirations.

Girl Power No Cream Puffs By Karen Day Wendy Lamb Books, 2008 ISBN-13: 978-0-375-83775-3 Interest Level: 5-8 When twelve-year-old Madison, who loves to play baseball, decides to play in her town's baseball league, she never envisions the uproar it causes when she becomes the first girl to join the boys league.

No Cream Puffs

By Karen Day

Wendy Lamb Books, 2008

ISBN-13: 978-0-375-83775-3

Interest Level: 5-8

When twelve-year-old Madison, who loves to play baseball, decides to play in her town's baseball league, she never envisions the uproar it causes when she becomes the first girl to join the boys league.

Girl Power Basketball (Or Something Like It) by Nora Raleigh Baskin. Publisher: HarperTrophy, 2005 ISBN-13: 978-0-06-059612-5 Interest Level: 3-6 Hank, Nathan, Jeremy, and Anabel deal with the realities of middle school basketball, including family pressure, a series of coaches with very different personalities and agendas, and what it means to be a team--and a friend.

Basketball (Or Something Like It)

by Nora Raleigh Baskin.

Publisher: HarperTrophy, 2005

ISBN-13: 978-0-06-059612-5

Interest Level: 3-6

Hank, Nathan, Jeremy, and Anabel deal with the realities of middle school basketball, including family pressure, a series of coaches with very different personalities and agendas, and what it means to be a team--and a friend.

Girl Power Outside Beauty By Cynthia Kadohata Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2008 ISBN-13: 978-0-689-86575-6 Interest Level: YA Thirteen-year-old Shelby and her three sisters must go to live with their respective fathers while their mother, who has trained them to rely on their looks, recovers from a car accident that scarred her face.

Outside Beauty

By Cynthia Kadohata

Atheneum Books for Young

Readers, 2008

ISBN-13: 978-0-689-86575-6

Interest Level: YA

Thirteen-year-old Shelby and her three sisters must go to live with their respective fathers while their mother, who has trained them to rely on their looks, recovers from a car accident that scarred her face.

Girl Power Title: Breathing Soccer By Debbie Spring Thistledown Press, 2008 ISBN-13: 978-1-897235-42-3 Interest Level: 5-8 Lisa, a young girl who suffers from asthma, finds inspiration in the performance of Olympic rower Silken Laumann and trains hard to overcome her condition and be a great soccer player.

Title: Breathing Soccer

By Debbie Spring

Thistledown Press, 2008

ISBN-13: 978-1-897235-42-3

Interest Level: 5-8

Lisa, a young girl who suffers from asthma, finds inspiration in the performance of Olympic rower Silken Laumann and trains hard to overcome her condition and be a great soccer player.

Girl Power The Hunger Games By Suzanne Collins Scholastic Press, p2008, ISBN-13: 978-0-439-02348-1 Interest Level: YA Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen accidentally becomes a contender in the annual Hunger Games, a grave competition hosted by the Capitol where young boys and girls are pitted against one another in a televised fight to the death.

The Hunger Games

By Suzanne Collins

Scholastic Press, p2008,

ISBN-13: 978-0-439-02348-1

Interest Level: YA

Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen accidentally becomes a contender in the annual Hunger Games, a grave competition hosted by the Capitol where young boys and girls are pitted against one another in a televised fight to the death.

Girl Power Throwing Like a Girl By Weezie Kerr Mackey Marshall Cavendish, 2007 ISBN-13: 978-0-7614-5342-0 Interest Level: YA After moving from Chicago to Dallas in the spring of her sophomore year, fifteen-year-old Ella finds that joining the softball team at her private school not only helps her make friends, it also provides unexpected opportunities to learn and grow.

Throwing Like a Girl

By Weezie Kerr Mackey

Marshall Cavendish, 2007

ISBN-13: 978-0-7614-5342-0 Interest Level: YA

After moving from Chicago to Dallas in the spring of her sophomore year, fifteen-year-old Ella finds that joining the softball team at her private school not only helps her make friends, it also provides unexpected opportunities to learn and grow.

Girl Power Palace of Mirrors By Margaret Peterson Haddix Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2008 ISBN-13: 978-1-41693-915-3 Interest Level: YA Fourteen-year-old Cecilia has always known she is the true princess of Suala, but when she and her best friend, Harper, decide to speed up her ascendancy to the throne, they find danger and many imposters who challenge her claim.

Palace of Mirrors

By Margaret Peterson Haddix

Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2008

ISBN-13: 978-1-41693-915-3 Interest Level: YA

Fourteen-year-old Cecilia has always known she is the true princess of Suala, but when she and her best friend, Harper, decide to speed up her ascendancy to the throne, they find danger and many imposters who challenge her claim.

Girl Power Uglies By Scott Westerfeld Simon Pulse, 2005 ISBN-13: 978-0-689-86538-1 Interest Level: YA Notes: Tally is faced with a difficult choice when her new friend Shay decides to risk life on the outside rather than submit to the forced operation that turns sixteen year old girls into gorgeous beauties, and realizes that there is a whole new side to the pretty world that she doesn't like.

Uglies

By Scott Westerfeld

Simon Pulse, 2005

ISBN-13: 978-0-689-86538-1 Interest Level: YA

Notes: Tally is faced with a difficult choice when her new friend Shay decides to risk life on the outside rather than submit to the forced operation that turns sixteen year old girls into gorgeous beauties, and realizes that there is a whole new side to the pretty world that she doesn't like.

Girl Power My So-Called Family By Courtney Sheinmel Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2008 ISBN-13: 978-1-41695-785-0 Interest Level: 5-8 Leah, who was conceived through a donor bank, decides that even though she loves her mother, stepfather, and stepbrother, she wants to find out if she has any other siblings, and sets out to investigate without telling anyone what she is doing.

My So-Called Family

By Courtney Sheinmel

Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers,

2008

ISBN-13: 978-1-41695-785-0 Interest Level: 5-8

Leah, who was conceived through a donor bank, decides that even though she loves her mother, stepfather, and stepbrother, she wants to find out if she has any other siblings, and sets out to investigate without telling anyone what she is doing.

Adventure Brothers, Boyfriends, and Other Criminal Minds by April Lurie Delacorte Press, 2007 ISBN-13: 978-0-385-73124-9 Interest Level: YA While living on the same block as several members of the Mafia does have the advantage of a lower crime rate, fourteen-year-old April and her brother find there are times when it is also a major disadvantage.

Brothers, Boyfriends, and Other Criminal Minds

by April Lurie

Delacorte Press, 2007

ISBN-13: 978-0-385-73124-9 Interest Level: YA

While living on the same block as several members of the Mafia does have the advantage of a lower crime rate, fourteen-year-old April and her brother find there are times when it is also a major disadvantage.

Adventure Hope was Here By Joan Bauer. G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2000 ISBN-13: 978-0-399-23142-1 Interest Level: YA When sixteen-year-old Hope and the aunt who has raised her move from Brooklyn to Mulhoney, Wisconsin, to work as waitress and cook in the Welcome Stairways diner, they become involved with the diner owner's political campaign to oust the town's corrupt mayor.

Hope was Here

By Joan Bauer.

G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2000

ISBN-13: 978-0-399-23142-1

Interest Level: YA

When sixteen-year-old Hope and the aunt who has raised her move from Brooklyn to Mulhoney, Wisconsin, to work as waitress and cook in the Welcome Stairways diner, they become involved with the diner owner's political campaign to oust the town's corrupt mayor.

Adventure Rules of the Road By Joan Bauer Putman's,1998 ISBN-13: 978-0-399-23140-7 Interest Level: YA Sixteen-year-old Jenna gets a job driving the elderly owner of a chain of successful shoe stores from Chicago to Texas to confront the son who is trying to force her to retire, and along the way Jenna hones her talents as a saleswoman and finds the strength to face her alcoholic father.

Rules of the Road

By Joan Bauer

Putman's,1998

ISBN-13: 978-0-399-23140-7

Interest Level: YA

Sixteen-year-old Jenna gets a job driving the elderly owner of a chain of successful shoe stores from Chicago to Texas to confront the son who is trying to force her to retire, and along the way Jenna hones her talents as a saleswoman and finds the strength to face her alcoholic father.

Adventure Huge : a Novel By Sasha Paley. Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2007 ISBN-13: 978-1-41693-517-9 Interest Level: YA Thrown together as roommates at a "fat camp," Wilhelmina and April have nothing in common until they are both humiliated by the same person.

Huge : a Novel

By Sasha Paley.

Simon & Schuster Books for

Young Readers, 2007

ISBN-13: 978-1-41693-517-9 Interest Level: YA

Thrown together as roommates at a "fat camp," Wilhelmina and April have nothing in common until they are both humiliated by the same person.

Adventure Cornelia and the Audacious Escapades of the Somerset Sisters By Lesley M. M. Blume Yearling, 2008 ISBN-13: 978-0-440-42110-8 Interest Level: 3-6 Eleven-year-old Cornelia S. Englehart, a lonely daughter of famous pianists who lives in New York City, learns about language and life from a new elderly neighbor who shares stories about the fabulous adventures she and her sisters had while traveling around the world.

Cornelia and the Audacious

Escapades of the Somerset Sisters

By Lesley M. M. Blume

Yearling, 2008

ISBN-13: 978-0-440-42110-8 Interest Level: 3-6

Eleven-year-old Cornelia S. Englehart, a lonely daughter of famous pianists who lives in New York City, learns about language and life from a new elderly neighbor who shares stories about the fabulous adventures she and her sisters had while traveling around the world.

Adventure Do-Over By Christine Hurley Deriso Yearling, 2007 ISBN-13: 978-0-440-42119-1 Interest Level: 3-6 Seventh-grader Elsa moves to a new town and starts a new school where with the help of her recently deceased mother and a magic locket allows her to redo the last ten seconds of any situation.

Do-Over

By Christine Hurley Deriso

Yearling, 2007

ISBN-13: 978-0-440-42119-1

Interest Level: 3-6

Seventh-grader Elsa moves to a new town and starts a new school where with the help of her recently deceased mother and a magic locket allows her to redo the last ten seconds of any situation.

Adventure Bloody Jack: Being an Account of the Curious Adventures of Mary "Jacky" Faber, Ship's Boy By L. A. Meyer Harcourt, 2002 ISBN-13: 978-0-15-216731-8 Interest Level: YA Reduced to begging and thievery in the streets of London, a thirteen-year-old orphan disguises herself as a boy and connives her way onto a British warship set for high sea adventure in search of pirates.

Bloody Jack: Being an Account

of the Curious Adventures of

Mary "Jacky" Faber, Ship's Boy

By L. A. Meyer

Harcourt, 2002

ISBN-13: 978-0-15-216731-8

Interest Level: YA

Reduced to begging and thievery in the streets of London, a thirteen-year-old orphan disguises herself as a boy and connives her way onto a British warship set for high sea adventure in search of pirates.

Adventure Never mind! : a Twin Novel By Avi, Rachel Vail Harper Trophy, 2005 ISBN-13: 978-0-06-054316-7 Interest Level: 5-8 Twelve-year-old New York City twins Meg and Edward have nothing in common, so they are just as shocked as everyone else when Meg's hopes for popularity and Edward's mischievous schemes coincidentally collide in a hilarious showdown.

Never mind! : a Twin Novel

By Avi, Rachel Vail

Harper Trophy, 2005

ISBN-13: 978-0-06-054316-7

Interest Level: 5-8

Twelve-year-old New York City twins Meg and Edward have nothing in common, so they are just as shocked as everyone else when Meg's hopes for popularity and Edward's mischievous schemes coincidentally collide in a hilarious showdown.

Adventure Switched By Jessica Wollman Delacorte Press, 2007 ISBN-13: 978-0-385-73396-0 Interest Level: YA Laura and Willa, born the same night seventeen years ago on opposite sides of Darien, Connecticut, are both unhappy with their lives and when they discover they look remarkably alike, they decide to try out one another's lives for four months.

Switched

By Jessica Wollman

Delacorte Press, 2007

ISBN-13: 978-0-385-73396-0

Interest Level: YA

Laura and Willa, born the same night seventeen years ago on opposite sides of Darien, Connecticut, are both unhappy with their lives and when they discover they look remarkably alike, they decide to try out one another's lives for four months.

Adventure Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life By Wendy Mass Little, Brown, 2006 ISBN-13: 978-0-316-05829-2 Interest Level: 5-8 Just before his thirteenth birthday, Jeremy Fink receives a keyless locked box--set aside by his father before his death five years earlier--that purportedly contains the meaning of life.

Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life

By Wendy Mass

Little, Brown, 2006

ISBN-13: 978-0-316-05829-2

Interest Level: 5-8

Just before his thirteenth birthday, Jeremy Fink receives a keyless locked box--set aside by his father before his death five years earlier--that purportedly contains the meaning of life.

Adventure The problem with Paradise By Lesley Dahl Publisher: Yearling, 2008 ISBN-13: 978-0-440-23950-5 Interest Level: 5-8 Fourteen-year-old Casey dreads leaving her friends and boyfriend to spend a boring summer on a Caribbean island with her naturalist father, stepmother, and brothers, but she has some life-changing experiences that include learning to sail, helping with turtle conservation, surviving storms, and romance.

The problem with Paradise

By Lesley Dahl

Publisher: Yearling, 2008

ISBN-13: 978-0-440-23950-5

Interest Level: 5-8

Fourteen-year-old Casey dreads leaving her friends and boyfriend to spend a boring summer on a Caribbean island with her naturalist father, stepmother, and brothers, but she has some life-changing experiences that include learning to sail, helping with turtle conservation, surviving storms, and romance.

Real Life Yankee Girl by Mary Ann Rodman. Farrar Straus Giroux, 2004 ISBN-13: 978-0-374-38661-0 Interest Level: 5-8 When her FBI-agent father is transferred to Jackson, Mississippi, in 1964, eleven-year-old Alice wants to be popular but also wants to reach out to the one black girl in her class in a newly-integrated school.

Yankee Girl

by Mary Ann Rodman.

Farrar Straus Giroux, 2004

ISBN-13: 978-0-374-38661-0

Interest Level: 5-8

When her FBI-agent father is transferred to Jackson, Mississippi, in 1964, eleven-year-old Alice wants to be popular but also wants to reach out to the one black girl in her class in a newly-integrated school.

Real Life Waiting for Normal By Leslie Connor Katherine Tegen Books, 2008 ISBN-13: 978-0-06-089088-9 Interest Level: 5-8 Twelve-year-old Addie tries to cope with her mother's erratic behavior and being separated from her beloved stepfather and half-sisters when she and her mother go to live in a small trailer by the railroad tracks on the outskirts of New York.

Waiting for Normal

By Leslie Connor

Katherine Tegen Books, 2008

ISBN-13: 978-0-06-089088-9

Interest Level: 5-8

Twelve-year-old Addie tries to cope with her mother's erratic behavior and being separated from her beloved stepfather and half-sisters when she and her mother go to live in a small trailer by the railroad tracks on the outskirts of New York.

Real Life Izzy, Willy-Nilly by Cynthia Voigt. Simon Pulse, 2005 ISBN-13: 978-1-41690-339-0 Interest Level: 5-8 A car accident causes fifteen-year-old Izzy to lose one leg and face the need to start building a new life as an amputee.

Izzy, Willy-Nilly

by Cynthia Voigt.

Simon Pulse, 2005

ISBN-13: 978-1-41690-339-0

Interest Level: 5-8

A car accident causes fifteen-year-old Izzy to lose one leg and face the need to start building a new life as an amputee.

Real Life Malibu Carmie By Leah Komaiko Random House Children's Books, 2007 ISBN-13: 978-0-440-42014-9 Interest Level: YA When thirteen-year-old Carmie discovers that her divorced mother, who suffers from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, was once a well-know Malibu surfer, she re-evaluates the way she views her mother and herself.

Malibu Carmie

By Leah Komaiko

Random House Children's Books,

2007

ISBN-13: 978-0-440-42014-9 Interest Level: YA

When thirteen-year-old Carmie discovers that her divorced mother, who suffers from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, was once a well-know Malibu surfer, she re-evaluates the way she views her mother and herself.

Real Life Dicey's song By Cynthia Voigt. Atheneum, p1982, c1982 ISBN-13: 978-0-689-30944-1 Interest Level: 5-8 Sequel to: Homecoming. Now that the four abandoned Tillerman children are settled in with their grandmother, Dicey finds that their new beginnings require love, trust, humor, and courage.

Dicey's song

By Cynthia Voigt.

Atheneum, p1982, c1982

ISBN-13: 978-0-689-30944-1

Interest Level: 5-8

Sequel to: Homecoming. Now that the four abandoned Tillerman children are settled in with their grandmother, Dicey finds that their new beginnings require love, trust, humor, and courage.

Real Life Dear Julia By Amy Bronwen Zemser Greenwillow Books, 2008 ISBN-13: 978-0-06-029458-8 Interest Level: YA Shy sixteen-year-old Elaine has long dreamed of being the next Julia Child, to the dismay of her feminist mother, but when her first friend, the outrageous Lucida Sans, convinces Elaine to enter a cooking contest, anything could happen.

Dear Julia

By Amy Bronwen Zemser

Greenwillow Books, 2008

ISBN-13: 978-0-06-029458-8

Interest Level: YA

Shy sixteen-year-old Elaine has long dreamed of being the next Julia Child, to the dismay of her feminist mother, but when her first friend, the outrageous Lucida Sans, convinces Elaine to enter a cooking contest, anything could happen.

Real Life Chasing Normal By Lisa Papademetriou Hyperion Books for Children, 2008 ISBN-13: 978-1-42310-340-0 Interest Level: 5-8 When her mean, grouchy grandmother in Texas has a heart attack and she and father go to help, twelve-year-old Mieka meets her cousins' family and wishes for their "normal" type of life.

Chasing Normal

By Lisa Papademetriou

Hyperion Books for Children, 2008

ISBN-13: 978-1-42310-340-0

Interest Level: 5-8

When her mean, grouchy grandmother in Texas has a heart attack and she and father go to help, twelve-year-old Mieka meets her cousins' family and wishes for their "normal" type of life.

Real Life As if being 12 3/4 isn't bad enough, my mother is running for president! By Donna Gephart Delacorte Press, 2008 ISBN-13: 978-0-385-73481-3 Interest Level: 3-6 Preparing for spelling bees, having a secret admirer, and waiting for her chest size to catch up with her enormous feet are pressure enough, but twelve-year-old Vanessa must also deal with loneliness and very real fears as her mother, Florida's governor, runs for President of the United States.

As if being 12 3/4 isn't bad enough,

my mother is running for president!

By Donna Gephart

Delacorte Press, 2008

ISBN-13: 978-0-385-73481-3

Interest Level: 3-6

Preparing for spelling bees, having a secret admirer, and waiting for her chest size to catch up with her enormous feet are pressure enough, but twelve-year-old Vanessa must also deal with loneliness and very real fears as her mother, Florida's governor, runs for President of the United States.

Real Life BFF : Best Friends Forever : Two Novels By Judy Blume Delacorte Press, 2007 ISBN-13: 978-0-385-73407-3 Interest Level: 5-8 Two novels by Judy Blume including "Just as Long as We're Together," in which Stephanie's relationship with her best friend, Rachel, changes during her first year in junior high; and "Here's to You, Rachel Robinson," in which Rachel's life is disrupted when her brother Charles is expelled from boarding school and returns home.

BFF : Best Friends Forever : Two Novels

By Judy Blume

Delacorte Press, 2007

ISBN-13: 978-0-385-73407-3

Interest Level: 5-8

Two novels by Judy Blume including "Just as Long as We're Together," in which Stephanie's relationship with her best friend, Rachel, changes during her first year in junior high; and "Here's to You, Rachel Robinson," in which Rachel's life is disrupted when her brother Charles is expelled from boarding school and returns home.

Real Life Beauty shop for rent– : fully equipped, inquire within By Laura Bowers Harcourt, 2007 ISBN-13: 978-0-15-205764-0 Interest Level: YA Raised by a great-grandmother and a bunch of beauty shop buddies, fourteen-year-old Abbey resolves to overcome her unhappy childhood and disillusionment with the mother who deserted her.

Beauty shop for rent–

: fully equipped, inquire within

By Laura Bowers

Harcourt, 2007

ISBN-13: 978-0-15-205764-0

Interest Level: YA

Raised by a great-grandmother and a bunch of beauty shop buddies, fourteen-year-old Abbey resolves to overcome her unhappy childhood and disillusionment with the mother who deserted her.

Real Life Shug ByJenny Han. Aladdin Mix, 2007 ISBN-13: 978-1-41690-943-9 Interest Level: 5-8 Annemarie "Shug" Wilcox, facing junior high school, disgruntled with her appearance, and confused by changing relationships, decides there is nothing worse than being twelve-years-old.

Shug

ByJenny Han.

Aladdin Mix, 2007

ISBN-13: 978-1-41690-943-9 Interest Level: 5-8

Annemarie "Shug" Wilcox, facing junior high school, disgruntled with her appearance, and confused by changing relationships, decides there is nothing worse than being twelve-years-old.

Real Life Bounce By Natasha Friend Scholastic Press,2007 ISBN-13: 978-0-439-85350-7 Thirteen-year-old Evyn's world is turned upside-down when her father, widowed since she was a toddler, suddenly decides to marry a woman with six children, move with Ev and her older brother from Maine to Boston, and enroll her in private school.

Bounce

By Natasha Friend

Scholastic Press,2007

ISBN-13: 978-0-439-85350-7

Thirteen-year-old Evyn's world is turned upside-down when her father, widowed since she was a toddler, suddenly decides to marry a woman with six children, move with Ev and her older brother from Maine to Boston, and enroll her in private school.

Real Life Title: The Secret Language of Girls By Frances O'Roark Dowell Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2004 ISBN-13: 978-0-689-84421-8 Interest Level: 3-6 Marylin and Kate have been friends since nursery school, but when Marylin becomes a middle school cheerleader and Kate begins to develop other interests, their relationship is put to the test. The sequel to this book is: The Kind of Friends We Used to Be

Title: The Secret Language of Girls

By Frances O'Roark Dowell

Atheneum Books for Young Readers,

2004

ISBN-13: 978-0-689-84421-8 Interest Level: 3-6

Marylin and Kate have been friends since nursery school, but when Marylin becomes a middle school cheerleader and Kate begins to develop other interests, their relationship is put to the test. The sequel to this book is: The Kind of Friends We Used to Be

Real Life Pieces of Georgia : a Novel By Jen Bryant Publisher: Yearling, 2007 ISBN-13: 978-0-440-42055-2 Interest Level: 5-8 In journal entries to her mother, a gifted artist who died suddenly, thirteen-year-old Georgia McCoy reveals how her life changes after she receives an anonymous gift membership to a nearby art museum.

Pieces of Georgia : a Novel

By Jen Bryant

Publisher: Yearling, 2007

ISBN-13: 978-0-440-42055-2

Interest Level: 5-8

In journal entries to her mother, a gifted artist who died suddenly, thirteen-year-old Georgia McCoy reveals how her life changes after she receives an anonymous gift membership to a nearby art museum.

Sad Kat Got Your Tongue By Lee Weatherly David Fickling Books, 2007 ISBN-13: 978-0-385-75117-9 Interest Level: YA After being hit by a car, thirteen-year-old Kat Tyler wakes up in the hospital with no memory of her previous life and must reconcile her new personality with her old when she reads the shocking secrets in her diary.

Kat Got Your Tongue

By Lee Weatherly

David Fickling Books, 2007

ISBN-13: 978-0-385-75117-9

Interest Level: YA

After being hit by a car, thirteen-year-old Kat Tyler wakes up in the hospital with no memory of her previous life and must reconcile her new personality with her old when she reads the shocking secrets in her diary.

Sad The Mother-Daughter Book Club By Heather Vogel Frederick Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2007 ISBN-13: 978-0-689-86412-4 Interest Level: 3-6 The mothers of four very different sixth-grade girls pressure them into forming a book club, and find, as they read the classic novel "Little Women," that they have more in common than they thought.

The Mother-Daughter Book Club

By Heather Vogel Frederick

Simon & Schuster Books for Young

Readers, 2007

ISBN-13: 978-0-689-86412-4

Interest Level: 3-6

The mothers of four very different sixth-grade girls pressure them into forming a book club, and find, as they read the classic novel "Little Women," that they have more in common than they thought.

Sad Homecoming By Cynthia Voigt Atheneum Books for Young Readers,1981 ISBN-13: 978-0-689-30833-8 Interest Level: 5-8 Sequel: Dicey's song. Abandoned by their mother, four children begin a search for a home and an identity.

Homecoming

By Cynthia Voigt

Atheneum Books for Young Readers,1981

ISBN-13: 978-0-689-30833-8

Interest Level: 5-8

Sequel: Dicey's song. Abandoned by their mother, four children begin a search for a home and an identity.

Sad My Louisiana Sky By Kimberly Willis Holt Publisher: Holt, 1998 ISBN-13: 978-0-8050-5251-0 Interest Level: 5-8 Growing up in Saitter, Louisiana, in the 1950s, twelve-year-old Tiger Ann struggles with her feelings about her stern, but loving grandmother, her mentally slow parents, and her good friend and neighbor, Jesse.

My Louisiana Sky

By Kimberly Willis Holt

Publisher: Holt, 1998

ISBN-13: 978-0-8050-5251-0

Interest Level: 5-8

Growing up in Saitter, Louisiana, in the 1950s, twelve-year-old Tiger Ann struggles with her feelings about her stern, but loving grandmother, her mentally slow parents, and her good friend and neighbor, Jesse.

Sad Pretty Like Us By Carol Lynch Williams Peachtree, 2008 ISBN-13: 978-1-56145-444-0 Interest Level: 5-8 Reading Level: 5.5 A shy, small-town girl learns the true meaning of loyalty, love, and beauty through her friendship with a classmate who is suffering from a rare, life-threatening illness.

Pretty Like Us

By Carol Lynch Williams

Peachtree, 2008

ISBN-13: 978-1-56145-444-0 Interest Level: 5-8

Reading Level: 5.5

A shy, small-town girl learns the true meaning of loyalty, love, and beauty through her friendship with a classmate who is suffering from a rare, life-threatening illness.

Sad Red Kayak By Priscilla Cummings Dutton Children's Books, 2004 ISBN-13: 978-0-525-47317-6 Interest Level: 5-8 Living near the water on Maryland's Eastern Shore, thirteen-year-old Brady and his best friends J.T. and Digger become entangled in a tragedy which tests their friendship and their ideas about right and wrong.

Red Kayak

By Priscilla Cummings

Dutton Children's Books, 2004

ISBN-13: 978-0-525-47317-6

Interest Level: 5-8

Living near the water on Maryland's Eastern Shore, thirteen-year-old Brady and his best friends J.T. and Digger become entangled in a tragedy which tests their friendship and their ideas about right and wrong.

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