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Surprise me: a novel
By Sophie Kinsella. 2018
After being together for ten years, Sylvie and Dan have all the trimmings of a happy life and marriage; they…
have a comfortable home, fulfilling jobs, beautiful twin girls, and communicate so seamlessly, they finish each other's sentences. However, a trip to the doctor projects they will live another 68 years together and panic sets in. They never expected "until death do us part" to mean seven decades. In the name of marriage survival, they quickly concoct a plan to keep their relationship fresh and exciting: they will create little surprises for each other so that their (extended) years together will never become boring. But in their pursuit to execute Project Surprise Me, mishaps arise and secrets are uncovered that start to threaten the very foundation of their unshakable bond. When a scandal from the past is revealed that questions some important untold truths, they begin to wonder if they ever really knew each other after all. 2018.Superfudge
By Judy Blume. 1980
Not only does Peter's brother, Fudge, grow more troublesome with age, but Peter's parents make things worse by producing a…
baby girl. Sequel to "Tales of a fourth grade nothing" (DC06012). Grades 3-6. 1980.Switcharound
By Lois Lowry. 1985
Caroline and J.P. spend the entire summer with their father and his new family. When they are asked to care…
for twin babies and coach a baseball team, the two children plot revenge. Sequel to "The one hundredth thing about Caroline." Grades 5-8. 1985.Sweet anarchy
By Nathaniel Benchley. 1979
When an island off the New England coast decides to secede, visiting writer Sam Jensen's hopes for solitude becomes impossible.…
A job with the local newspaper lands him right in the middle of the bedlam with TV crews, troops, ships, and politicians. Some strong language. 1979.Super Gran (Puffin Bks.)
By Forrest Wilson. 1980
While Willie is playing football, a strange white beam turns his frail granny into Super Gran, with incredible strength, fantastic…
speed and x-ray eyes. Willie and his granny have some adventures which include stopping bank robbers, and fighting a battle with the super toughies so that Super Gran can return the great invention to its rightful owner. Grades 2-4. 1980.Surviving the Applewhites (Applewhites Ser. #1)
By Stephanie S Tolan. 2002
Kicked out of several public schools, Jake winds up being home schooled with an eccentric family of artists at the…
Applewhite's Creative Academy. When the whole clan becomes involved in producing The Sound of Music, Jake discovers a few positive traits and talents of his own. A Newbery Honor Book. Grades 5-8. 2002.Switcheroo: a novel
By Olivia Goldsmith. 1998
Now that her twins are off to college, forty-year-old Sylvie plans to put some romance back in her marriage. But…
her husband, Bob, has found his own adventure - with Marla, a bimbo and a dead ringer for a much younger Sylvie. Instead of confronting Bob, Sylvie undergoes plastic surgery, and she and Marla secretly trade places. Some strong language. 1998.Suds, a new daytime drama: A New Daytime Drama
By Judie Angell. 1983
An outrageous soap-opera spoof. Grief-stricken after the mid-air collision of her parents' planes leaves her an orphan, Sue Sudley moves…
to her aunt's small mid-western town where she hopes to become "a real teenager." For junior high readers. 1993.Soon to be a major motion picture: a novel
By Warren Dunford. 1998
Mitchell, Ingrid and Ramir are all struggling artists working day jobs until they can make it big in their chosen…
fields. Mitchell, a screen writer working as an office temp, gets his chance when a producer contracts him to write a screenplay for a thriller. Everything is going well until Mitchell's real life starts to match the story in his screenplay a little too closely. Some strong language. 1998.Stares
By R Fuller. 1990
Starring Tracy Beaker (Tracy Beaker ; #3)
By Jacqueline Wilson. 2006
Tracy Beaker is back ...and she's just desperate for a role in her school play. They're performing A Christmas Carol…
and for one extremely worrying moment, the irrepressible Tracy thinks she might not even get to play one of the unnamed street urchins. But then she is cast in the main role. Grades 3-6. 2006. (Tracy Beaker ; 3)Stealing princes (Calypso chronicles. #2)
By Tyne O'Connell. 2005
Back at her elegant English boarding school for another term, Californian Calypso Kelly continues her pursuit of Prince Freddy with…
style. For junior and senior high readers. Sequel to "Pulling princes" (DC28228). Followed by "Dueling princes". 2005. (The Calypso chronicles ; 2)Special Edward (Orca currents)
By Eric Walters. 2009
Slacker Edward fakes a learning disability to gain a special-education designation in school. But instead of lowering his parents' expectations,…
Edward ends up working harder than ever. A high-interest, low-vocabulary book. Grades 5-8. 2009.Seeing red
By Anne Louise MacDonald. 2009
Frankie Uccello seems like just another average, normal fourteen-year-old boy, until he discovers that he can dream the future, especially…
when something bad is about to happen. But seeing the future is only cool in movies and TV; in real life, not only does everyone think you're a whacko, but the future doesn't look good. And then Maura-Lee starts hanging around: she can read minds, and she seems to be reading his. For junior high readers. 2009.Stickler and me
By Morley Torgov. 2002
It is the summer of 1962 and 13-year-old Benjamin Marshall's newly divorced parents are sending him to Port Sanford, the…
less-than-thrilling town where his grandfather Ira has practiced law for 40 years. Ira's wealthiest client, Mrs. O'Hearn, has died before he can finalize her will, and now Ira has to distribute her fortune to an ungrateful niece and nephew - and he can't bear to fulfill her last request. Soon, Ira and Ben hit the road with the sheriff in hot pursuit. Grades 4-7. 2002.Spying on Dracula (Sam, dog detective.)
By Mary Labatt. 1999
Ten-year-old Jennie Levinsky has a secret, which only her best friend Beth knows - she can 'hear' what her new…
neighbours' sheepdog, Sam, is thinking! Sam, who claims to be a detective, is thinking about the owner of the spookiest house in town, who is never seen, and who has a bat hanging around his house. Sam decides that he's a vampire, and leads the girls into mystery and adventure. Grades 3-6. 1999.Sea of tranquility: a novel
By Lesley Choyce. 2003
For Sylvie, Ragged Island is the only world she has ever known, and she plans to live out her years…
there. When the Nova Scotia government decides to shut down the ferry service to the island, the residents see their world beginning to disappear. Strong language. 2003.Slow days, fast company: the world, the flesh, and L.A
By Eve Babitz. 2016
There was a time when no one burned hotter than Eve Babitz. Possessing skin that radiated "its own kind of…
moral laws," spectacular teeth, and a figure that was the stuff of legend, she seduced seemingly everyone who was anyone in Los Angeles for a long stretch of the 1960s and '70s. But there was one man who proved elusive, and so Babitz did what she did best, she wrote him a book. She also pulled off a remarkable sleight of hand: Slow Days, Fast Company far exceeds its mash-note premise. It is a full-fledged and full-bodied evocation of a bygone Southern California. In ten sun-baked, Santa Ana wind-swept sketches, Babitz re-creates a Los Angeles of movie stars distraught over their success; socialites on three-day drug binges, evading their East Coast banking husbands; soap-opera actors worried that tomorrow's script will kill them off; Italian femme fatales even more fatal than she is. And she even leaves L.A. sometimes, spending an afternoon at the house of flawless Orange County suburbanites, a day among the grape pickers of the Central Valley, a weekend in Palm Springs where her dreams of romance fizzle and her only solace is Virginia Woolf. In the end it doesn't matter if Babitz ever gets the guy--she seduces us. 2016.Startled by his furry shorts: confessions of Georgia Nicolson (Confessions of Georgia Nicolson. #7.)
By Louise Rennison. 2007
British teenager Georgia continues her quest for a boyfriend. In her journal she records her feelings for sexy Italian Masimo,…
her old mate Dave, and her ex-crush Robbie. Meanwhile, she prepares for a school play and a Viking wedding and copes with her quirky family. Senior High. 2007.Stop in the name of pants! (Confessions of Georgia Nicolson. #9.)
By Louise Rennison. 2010
In a series of humorous diary entries, British teenager Georgia Nicolson tries to decide between two potential boyfriends - Masimo…
from Pizzagogoland (Italy) or local boy Dave the Laugh. Senior High. 2010.