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Natasha Friend
Thirteen-year-old Anna Collette’s life changes when her mother’s severe mental illness requires her to move into her father’s home and join his new family. At school, her best friend Dani pulls away, leaving Anna isolated during the first month of eighth grade. Her mother is hospitalized after a suicide attempt. Anna faces both painful experiences and moments of joy as she adjusts.
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Just My Type: Understanding Personality ProfilesMichael J. Rosen, with Daniel CarlsonJust My Type: Understanding Personality Profiles offers research-supported tests that explain a range of personality types. It connects these types to everyday tendencies that are simply human. The tests also aim to help people understand themselves. Archival photographs accompany the material. Michael J. Rosen, with Daniel Carlson, wrote the 80-page book, published by Twenty-First Century Books on the first day of January, 2016.Twelve to FourteenOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Into the DimJanet B. TaylorFollowing her mother’s death in an overseas earthquake, sixteen-year-old Hope Walton is sent from California to a manor in the Scottish Highlands belonging to her aunt. There, she discovers that her mother belonged to a covert group of time travelers and is stranded in the twelfth century, during Eleanor of Aquitaine’s era. Hope has three days to save her mother and return to her own time.Twelve to FourteenOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
A Shadow Bright and Burning (Kingdom on Fire series)Jessica CluessHenrietta Howel can burst into flames, making her the first female sorcerer in centuries. After revealing her power to save a friend, she is invited to train among the queen’s royal sorcerers rather than face execution. In Victorian London, Henrietta is declared the person meant to lead the fight against the seven Ancients, demons terrorizing humanity. As she trains with other young sorcerers, the true nature of her ability could be exposed.Twelve to FourteenOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details