Up A Road Slowly
A seven-year-old orphan goes to live with her aunt, where she learns new values as she grows to young womanhood.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 28
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1130
subjects: orphans, family life [X], newbery medal, girls, teenagers, aunts, coming of age, family, adolescence, domestic fiction, teenage girls [X], families, korean language materials, korean language, bildungsromans, bildungsromans
Life As We Knew It
Through journal entries, sixteen-year-old Miranda describes her family's struggle to survive after a meteor hits the moon, causing worldwide tsunamis, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 132
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 770
subjects: natural disasters, family, diaries, family life [X], science fiction, diary fiction, teenage girls [X], families
Dead Girl Walking
When Amber, a smart, middle-class, high school student, is hit by a truck, she meets her deceased grandmother in a dreamlike place, then takes a wrong turn and awakens in the body of a wealthy, beautiful, popular classmate with serious problems.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: identity (psychology), death, future life, family, high schools, identity, family problems, schools, school stories, identity (philosophical concept), family life [X], dysfunctional families, families, teenage girls [X], individuality
The Lovely Bones
This is the tale of family, memory, love, and living told by 14-year-old Susie Salmon, who is already in heaven.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 107
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 890
subjects: murder victims' families, teenage girls [X], family life [X], homicide, girls, teenagers, murder victims, salmon, susie (fictitious character)
Marni
Marni Bates, who suffers from a stress-related disorder called trichotillomania, describes how she discovered the source of her frustration that lead her to want to pull out all her hair, hide her impulse from others, and being confronted about it by others.
920
year: 2009
copies: 6
call number/section: 920
lexile:
subjects: bates, marni, teenage girls [X], families, self-mutilation, family life [X], teenagers, girls
Anastasia Has The Answers
Anastasia continues the perilous process of growing up as her thirteenth year involves her in conquering the art of rope climbing, playing Cupid for a recently widowered uncle, and surviving a crush on her gym teacher.
FIC
year: 1992
copies: 12
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 760
subjects: humorous stories, humorous fiction, krupnik, anastasia (fictitious character), krupnik, anastasia (fictional character), teenage girls [X], schools, families, family life [X], school stories, humorous fiction
Keeping Faith
When her family is forced to close the stables, Josie Grace knows that she must find a caring home for Faith, the elderly mare who was the stable's first horse.
FIC
year: 2002
copies: 6
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 740
The No-so-great Depression
Depicts Jacki, a teen-ager, whose life is turned upside down when the depression affects her family.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 810
Perfect You
Kate Brown is upset when she has to work with her father at the mall and her best friend begins ignoring her.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 13
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 750
subjects: teenage girls [X], father and child, friendship, social isolation, school stories, family life [X], dating (social customs), high schools, schools, family, families
Girls In Tears
In the midst of trouble at home, with her best friends, and with her love life, thirteen-year-old Ellie receives an encouraging letter from her favorite illustrator.
FIC
year: 2004
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 710
If I Have A Wicked Stepmother, Where's My Prince?
High school sophomore Lucy Norton's life is turned upside down when her father remarries and moves Lucy to Long Island, where she finds herself trapped in a Cinderella story with a wicked stepmother, two evil stepsisters, and a dashing prince who could make all Lucy's dreams come true.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 16
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 850
subjects: teenage girls [X], stepmothers, coming of age, family life [X], teenagers, long island (n.y.), girls
Kicked Out
Sixteen-year-old Dime, having difficulty adjusting to her parents' rules, moves in with her older brother and realizes that if she starts believing in herself others will too.
FIC
year: 2005
copies: 12
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 520
subjects: teenage girls [X], man-woman relationships, family life [X], teenagers, girls, man-woman relationship, family, families
Earthgirl
Sixteen-year-old Sabine Solomon, having been in an altercation with a driver who threw garbage at her, decides to change her life and become a crusader for the environment, but finds her new passion met by resistance from her family and friends and taking a dark turn.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 8
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 860
subjects: environmentalism, teenage girls [X], blogs, families, friendship, family life [X], environmental movement, weblogs, teenagers, girls, family
Chasing Shadows
Best friends for eleven years, Holly, Savitri, and Holly's twin, Corey, are a unit, freerunning through Chicago as if they were superheroes until a random act of violence takes Corey's life and, as they tell in their separate voices, Holly seeks the murderer and revenge while Sav feels left behind.
FIC
year: 2013
copies: 15
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 630
subjects: teenage girls [X], death, friendship, grief, teenagers, family life [X], east indian americans, best friends, murder, chicago (ill.)
Token
Shira, a fifteen-year-old who lives with her grandmother and widowed father in a Miami hotel, picks up shoplifting as a new hobby and is caught by a streetwise boy from Spain who becomes her friend, ally, and possibly more as she wrestles with the hardships of growing up.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: teenage girls [X], jews, family, man-woman relationships, girls, man-woman relationship, teenagers, family life [X], bildungsromans, comic books, strips, etc, cartoons and comics, graphic novels, families, bildungsromans, graphic novels