Third grade mermaid —Raymundo, Peter, author, illustrator.

Cora the mermaid is having trouble with spelling, but if she wants to stay on the swim team she has get an A on her next test -- so her mother gives her a "magic" diary that compels her to practice writing, while her fri...

Hurricane child —Callender, Kacen author.

Born on Water Island in the Virgin Islands during a hurricane, which is considered bad luck, twelve-year-old Caroline falls in love with another girl--and together they set out in a hurricane to find Caroline's missing m...

The dinky donkey —Smith, Craig, 1972- author, composer.

Originally written as a children's song, Wonky Donkey has a daughter, cute and small, and prone to mischief.

The Parker inheritance —Johnson, Varian, author.

Twelve-year-old Candice Miller is spending the summer in Lambert, South Carolina, in the old house that belonged to her grandmother, who died after being dismissed as city manager for having the city tennis courts dug up...

Is that you, Eleanor Sue? —Tusa, Tricia, author.

Eleanor Sue plays dress up with her mother and grandmother.

The center of the universe —Voros, Ria, author.

"Grace Carter's mother, GG, is everything teenage Grace is not. GG is glamorous and breezy, while Grace is a low-key dreamer. The two may share a name, but that's where the similarities stop. With nothing much in common,...

One true way —Hitchcock, Shannon, author.

From the moment she met Samantha, star of the school basketball team, on her first day at Daniel Boone Middle School, Allison Drake felt she had found a friend, something she needs badly since her brother died and her fa...

The long way home : the second generation —Martin, Ann M., 1955-

Dana is Abby and Zander's daughter, but growing up in New York City in the late nineteen fifties is not always easy, especially when you would like your own room separate from your twin sister -- and when your beloved fa...

The year we fell from space —King, A. S. (Amy Sarig), 1970- author.

Middle schooler Liberty likes to make her own maps of the stars, in fact she is obsessed with them, especially since her family is falling apart; her parents are getting divorced, her nine-year-old sister will barely lea...

Your name is a song —Thompkins-Bigelow, Jamilah, author.

Saddened by her classmates' and teacher's mispronunciations of her name, a girl is empowered by her discovery that names are like songs when she and her mom celebrate the musicality of African, Asian, Black-American, Lat...

And she was —Verdi, Jessica, author.

When Dara finds her birth certificate, she is puzzled to find two strange names on it, but when her mother, Mellie, reveals that she is transgender and transitioned when Dara's biological mother died soon after Dara's bi...

Pinkalicious and the perfect present —Kann, Victoria, author, illustrator.

While attending a yard sale, Pinkalicious finds all kinds of great items, but the one she finally chooses is not for her.

Lola at the library with Mommy —McQuinn, Anna.

Every Tuesday, Lola and her mother go to the library to borrow new books for Mom to read to her before bedtime.

Yoko learns to read —Wells, Rosemary.

Despite the doubts of some classmates and her native-born Japanese mother's inability to read English, Yoko finds the key to reading and catches up with the other students in putting new leaves on the classroom's book tr...

Between the lines —Picoult, Jodi, 1966-

Hilda and the great parade —Davies, Stephen, 1976- author.

Meet Hilda--explorer, adventurer, avid sketchbook-keeper, and friend to every creature in the valley! Well, almost every creature. We rejoin our favorite blue-haired heroine to find her warding off the nightmarish Marra,...

Tree of dreams —Resau, Laura, author.

Twelve-year-old Coco Hidden has grown up in her mother's chocolate shop in Colorado, along with her friend Leo de la Cueva, but recently things have not been going well; the shop is failing, and Leo is hanging out with t...

Niwîcihâw = I help —Nicholson, Caitlin Dale, 1966- author.

"This classic story in Cree and English about a young child picking rosehips in the woods with his grandmother has been updated and is available as a paperback for the first time. Formerly titled Niwechihaw / I Help, thi...

A girl of the Limberlost —Stratton-Porter, Gene, 1863-1924, author.

Deeply wounded by her embittered mother's lack of sympathy for her aspirations, Elnora finds comfort in the nearby Limberlost Swamp, whose beauty and rich abundance provide her with the means to better her life.

Secrets and scones —Remington, Laurel, author.

Scarlett, twelve, ended her friendships and activities when her mother started blogging about her every move, but when an elderly neighbor introduces her to cooking, she begins forging new connections.