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Slot machine
By Chris Lynch. 1996
Fourteen-year-old Elvin, his two best friends, and other incoming male freshmen of a Christian high school spend three weeks at…
summer camp. The goal is to find an athletic slot for each boy. Unfortunately, as overweight Elvin sarcastically explains in letters to his mother, he's not the athletic type. Some strong language. For junior and senior high readers. 1996.Sky Lake summer
By Peggy Dymond Leavey. 1999
When thirteen-year-old Jane Covington is sent to spend her summer vacation with her grandmother at Sky Lake, the last thing…
she expects to be doing is solving a seventy-year-old mystery. But that's exactly what she does when she becomes interested in a long ago fire. Jane finds a cry for help in the form of a letter tucked into an old library book and begins the search for more clues and information with a little help from her friend Corrie. Grades 5-8. 1999.Sixty-six
By Barry Levinson. 2003
Baltimore in 1966 is a quiet, blue-collar town. But all that is about to change for one group of young…
men. Bobby drops out of law school during his final year. Neil heads for the war in Vietnam, but goes AWOL and comes home as an antiwar protester. Ben marries the Cadillac dealer's daughter and half-heartedly begins his new life as son-in-law to the boss. Turko and Eggy discover the decadence of the '60s, but struggle to adapt. 2003.Silver girl: a novel
By Elin Hilderbrand. 2011
Although they are estranged, recently widowed Connie helps her childhood friend Meredith after Meredith's husband is arrested for running a…
Ponzi scheme. The two retreat to Connie's Nantucket home, where they cautiously rekindle their friendship and find surprising romances. Bestseller. 2011.Shug
By Jenny Han. 2006
At twelve, Annemarie, called Shug (short for sugar) by her family, feels that nothing is going right. She is too…
tall and skinny, she has a crush on her best friend Mark who doesn’t notice, and even her girlfriends are changing. Grades 5-8. 2006.Sidewalk story
By Sharon Bell Mathis. 1971
Sheer abandon
By Penny Vincenzi. 2005
One night in 1986 an abandoned baby girl is found in a cleaning cupboard at Heathrow airport. A year earlier,…
three girls, Martha, Clio and Jocasta had met by chance, at the start of a backpacking adventure. It would be a long time until they met again: when Kate, the foundling, is a teenager, and the three women are all leading successful lives. Which of them is Kate's mother? Why was she desperate enough to do such a thing, and how did she survive it? 2005.Shark bait
By Graham Salisbury. 1998
Twelve-year-old Mokes is torn between obeying his father, the police chief in the small town of Kailua, Hawaii, and being…
with his friends who plan to go see a fight between an island boy and a sailor. Grades 4-7. 1998.Sea change: a Toon graphic
By Frank Viva. 2016
Follows a young boy who is reluctantly sent to spend the summer in a remote part of Nova Scotia. As…
the summer wears on, the hero forges solid friendships with other kids in the small fishing community and is changed forever by the experience. Grades 5-8. 2016.Sharing Sam (Love stories ; #2)
By Katherine Applegate. 1995
Alison, a junior, is fascinated by the new boy at school, Sam Cody. But shortly after they meet, her best…
friend, Izzy, is diagnosed with a fatal brain tumour. Realizing that Izzy is attracted to Sam, too, Alison decides to put her own budding relationship on hold and convince Sam to devote himself to Izzy during the girl's last few months. Some strong language. Junior high and older. 1995.Seven for a secret
By Mary C Sheppard. 2001
Goody-goody Rebecca, studious Kate, and outspoken Melinda have spent every summer together in Cook's Cove, Newfoundland, for as long as…
they can remember. When a stranger comes to town and invites Rebecca to go to Boston to develop her artistic talent, the girls are exposed to the outside world and a chance to fulfill dreams. Strict and formidable Grace, Rebecca's mother, forbids her to go, and Melinda, in finding out why, comes face to face with difficult choices. For junior and senior high readers. 2001.Shakespeare's secret
By Elise Broach. 2005
Named after a character in a Shakespeare play, misfit sixth-grader Hero becomes interested in exploring this unusual connection because of…
a valuable diamond supposedly hidden in her new house, an intriguing neighbour, and the unexpected attention of the most popular boy in school. 2006 Edgar Award finalist. Grades 4-7. 2005.Seventh grade tango
By Elizabeth Levy. 2000
When ballroom dancing is introduced to their school, Rebecca and Scott are teamed up and turn into wonderful dance partners.…
But Rebecca's friend, Samantha, claims Scott as her new boyfriend just when Rebecca starts to like him as more than a friend. Grades 5-8. 2000.September
By Rosamunde Pilcher. 1990
Set in Scotland, the novel begins in the month of May as invitations are being written for a party in…
September, a moment which will be the turning point in the lives of a small group of people. Rosamunde Pilcher assembles a cast of characters linked by friendship, love or birth, telling their stories - some happy, some tragic - each unfolding as the seasons change and September comes. 1990.Scooter
By Vera B Williams. 1993
Elana Rose Rosen and her mother have just moved to an apartment in New York City. On her prized scooter…
with the silver and blue stripes, Elana excitedly explores her surroundings. New friends, old friends, a winning field day, and a silent, young friend (Petey, with whom she enjoys a special relationship) fill her days as she fills sheet after sheet of paper with her experiences, acrostics, and drawings. Grades 3-6. 1993.Second cousins (Virginia Hamilton Ser. #Vol. 3)
By Virginia Hamilton. 1998
In this sequel to Cousins (DC10270), Cammy and her third cousin Elodie are now twelve and still recovering from the…
drowning death of their cousin Patty Ann. As the girls eagerly await a family reunion, they meet a New York girl who seems tied to Cammy's divorced dad. Grades 5-8. 1998.Saving Jasey
By Diane Tullson. 2001
Gavin's older brother and father are bullies and his mother has not been the same since she hit a pig…
on the highway. Gavin spends most of his time at his best friend's house, pretending to be normal, while falling for his friend's older sister, Jasey. When Jasey's seemingly perfect family begins to come apart and Jasey is unable to deal with the threat of a potential illness, Gavin struggles to save her. For Junior High readers. 2001.Saltwater summer
By Roderick Haig-Brown. 2000
Seventeen-year-old Don Morgan has bought himself a 32-foot west coast salmon troller. Now he is free to fish the entire…
length of the BC coast. With his friend Tubby Miller, he sets off on his adventure, but things don't unfold quite as he had hoped. Don soon realizes that he has a lot to learn, not just about commercial fishing, but about growing up. For senior high readers. 1948. c2000.Samantha's story collection (American girls collection)
By Valerie Tripp, Maxine Schur, Susan S Adler. 2008
Sarah and the naked truth
By Elisa Lynn Carbone. 2000
In this sequel to "Starting School with an Enemy", Sarah from Maine and her friend Christina from El Salvador welcome…
Olivia from Trinidad into their Maryland neighbourhood. All three ten-year-olds face different problems involving mistaken identity, which they help one another solve. Grades 4-7. 2000.