Donna Gephart
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Language
English
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Description
"Lily Jo McGrother, born Timothy McGrother, is a girl. But being a girl is not so easy when you look like a boy. Especially when you're in the eighth-grade. Norbert Dorfman, nicknamed Dunkin Dorfman, is bipolar and has just moved from the New Jersey town he's called home for the past thirteen years. This would be hard enough, but the fact that he is also hiding from a painful secret makes it even worse. One summer morning, Lily Jo McGrother meets...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
When thirteen-year-old David Greenberg's best friend makes the start of middle school even worse than he feared it could be, David becomes friends with Penny, who shares his love of television shows and posts one of their skits on YouTube, making them wildly popular--online, at least.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Olivia Bean, who is really good at trivia watches the TV show Jeopardy every night. She would like to enter the program's kids week thinking that she could not only win a bundle of money, but see her father who left 2 years ago and now has another family. However, her weak area is geography, but her friend turned nemesis, Tucker, and a lot of others help her to bulk up and at last after passing all the auditions, she is on her way to Hollywood....
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Cleveland Rosebud Potts has a plan. If she can check off the six items on her très important Paris Project List she will make it out of the small-minded and scorching town of Sassafras, Florida, to a rich and cultured life at The American School of Paris. Unfortunately, everything seems to conspire against Cleveland reaching her goal. Cleveland is ashamed of her father and angry that her mother and sister are never around because they have to work...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press, and imprint of Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Miles is an anxious boy who loves his family's bowling center. Amy is the new girl at school, who tries to write her way to her own happily-ever-after and does not want to live above her uncles funeral home. Then Miles and Amy meetin the most unexpected way ... and it is the beginning of everything." --
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