The Summer I Wasn't Me
Title | The Summer I Wasn't Me PDF eBook |
Author | Jessica Verdi |
Publisher | Sourcebooks, Inc. |
Total Pages | 292 |
Release | 2014-04-01 |
Genre | Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | 140227789X |
Lexi has a secret. She never meant for her mom to find out. And now she's afraid that what's left of her family is going to fall apart for good. Lexi knows she can fix everything. She can change. She can learn to like boys. New Horizons summer camp has promised to transform her life, and there's nothing she wants more than to start over. But sometimes love has its own path... "A powerful indictment of reparative therapy—a sweet love story—and an unforgettable main character!"—Nancy Garden, author of Annie on My Mind "Unflinching honesty and unfaltering compassion...A gem of a novel."—RT Book Reviews, 4 1⁄2 stars, Top Pick of the Month on My Life After Now
And She Was
Title | And She Was PDF eBook |
Author | Jessica Verdi |
Publisher | Scholastic Inc. |
Total Pages | 261 |
Release | 2018-03-27 |
Genre | Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | 1338150545 |
From rising star Jessica Verdi, an incredibly timely, sensitive, and riveting portrayal of a teen girl's relationship with her transgender mom. Dara's lived a sheltered life with her single mom, Mellie. Now, at eighteen, she's dreaming of more. When Dara digs up her never-before-seen birth certificate, her world implodes. Why are two strangers listed as her parents? Dara confronts her mother, and is stunned by what she learns: Mellie is transgender. The unfamiliar name listed under "father"? That's Mellie. She transitioned when Dara was a baby, after Dara's birth mother died. She changed her name, started over. But Dara still has more questions than answers. Reeling, she sets off on an impromptu road trip with her best guy friend, Sam, in tow. She is determined to find the extended family she's never even met. What she does discover -- and what her mother reveals, piece by piece, over emails -- will challenge and change Dara more than she can imagine.This is a gorgeous, timely, and essential novel about the importance of being our true selves. The backmatter includes an author's note and resources for readers.
My Last Summer with Cass
Title | My Last Summer with Cass PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Crilley |
Publisher | Little, Brown Ink |
Total Pages | 259 |
Release | 2021-03-16 |
Genre | Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | 0316705470 |
This One Summer meets The Edge of Seventeen in this poignant coming-of-age YA graphic novel about two childhood friends at a crossroads in their lives and art from the author of Mastering Manga. Megan and Cass have been joined at the brush for as long as they can remember. For years, while spending summers together at a lakeside cabin, they created art together, from sand to scribbles . . . to anything available. Then Cass moved away to New York. When Megan finally convinces her parents to let her spend a week in the city, too, it seems like Cass has completely changed. She has tattoos, every artist in the city knows her. She even eats chicken feet now! At least one thing has stayed the same: They still make their best art together. But when one girl betrays the other's trust on the eve of what is supposed to be their greatest artistic feat yet, can their friendship survive? Can their art?
My Life After Now
Title | My Life After Now PDF eBook |
Author | Jessica Verdi |
Publisher | Sourcebooks, Inc. |
Total Pages | 305 |
Release | 2013-04-02 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1402277873 |
When she loses a leading role and her leading man to another girl, sixteen-year-old Lucy, a member of the high school drama club, does something completely out of character that has life-altering consequences.
A Song for Summer
Title | A Song for Summer PDF eBook |
Author | Eva Ibbotson |
Publisher | Pan Macmillan |
Total Pages | 433 |
Release | 2008-09-04 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 033047734X |
Set against the backdrop of gathering war, A Song for Summer is an unforgettable love story from master storyteller Eva Ibbotson, with an introduction from Ella Risbridger. When Ellen Carr abandons grey, dreary London to become housekeeper at an experimental school in Austria, she soon knows she's found her calling. Swept into an idyllic world of mountains, music, eccentric teachers and wayward children, Ellen brings order and joy to all around her. But it's the handsome, mysterious gardener, Marek, who intrigues her – Marek, who has a dangerous secret. As Hitler's troops march across Europe, Ellen finds she has promises to keep, even if it means sacrificing her future happiness . . . 'I have binged on Eva Ibbotson . . . her elegantly written, witty and well-observed fables' Nigella Lawson, The Times
The Most Fun We Ever Had
Title | The Most Fun We Ever Had PDF eBook |
Author | Claire Lombardo |
Publisher | Vintage |
Total Pages | 641 |
Release | 2021-04-06 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0525564233 |
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • “A gripping and poignant ode to a messy, loving family in all its glory.” —Madeline Miller, bestselling author of Circe In this “rich, complex family saga” (USA Today) full of long-buried family secrets, Marilyn Connolly and David Sorenson fall in love in the 1970s, blithely ignorant of all that awaits them. By 2016, they have four radically different daughters, each in a state of unrest. Wendy, widowed young, soothes herself with booze and younger men; Violet, a litigator turned stay-at-home-mom, battles anxiety and self-doubt; Liza, a neurotic and newly tenured professor, finds herself pregnant with a baby she's not sure she wants by a man she's not sure she loves; and Grace, the dawdling youngest daughter, begins living a lie that no one in her family even suspects. With the unexpected arrival of young Jonah Bendt—a child placed for adoption by one of the daughters fifteen years before—the Sorensons will be forced to reckon with the rich and varied tapestry of their past. As they grapple with years marred by adolescent angst, infidelity, and resentment, they also find the transcendent moments of joy that make everything else worthwhile.
We'll Always Have Summer
Title | We'll Always Have Summer PDF eBook |
Author | Jenny Han |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | 320 |
Release | 2012-04-24 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1416995595 |
The summer after her first year of college, Isobel "Belly" Conklin is faced with a choice between Jeremiah and Conrad Fisher, brothers she has always loved, when Jeremiah proposes marriage and Conrad confesses that he still loves her.