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Brilliant

author: Vail, Rachel
Sixteen-year-old Quinn struggles to maintain her image as a brilliant, good girl when her mother's major error at work leads to financial and legal troubles that turn Quinn's and her younger sisters' world upside-down.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 15
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 810
subjects: conduct of life, mothers and daughters, dysfunctional families [X], sisters [X], mother-daughter relationship, family life [X]

This Raging Light

author: Laure, Estelle
Seventeen-year-old Lucille is struggling to get through each day, paying bills and looking after her little sister, Wren, while her father is institutionalized after a breakdown and her mother is "on vacation," but nothing else seems to matter when she is with Digby Jones, her best friend's twin brother.
FIC
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copies: 11
call number/section: FIC
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Odd & True

author: Winters, Cat
Told from separate viewpoints, Odette returns in 1909 after a two-year absence, promising to rescue her disabled sister, Tru, from the monsters they were taught to believe in.
FIC
year: 2017
copies: 14
call number/section: FIC
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Counting To Perfect

author: Lafleur, Suzanne M
Ignored by her parents since her "perfect" older sister, Julia, had a baby, Cassie, twelve, foregoes her summer plans to join Julia and baby Addie on a road trip.
FIC
year:
copies: 22
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 530
subjects: sisters [X], infants, missing persons, family life [X], automobile travel, runaway women, dysfunctional families [X], family problems, runaways, babies

Let Me Fix That For You

author: Erlbaum, Janice
Twelve-year-old Glad is a problem-solver at home and school, but knowing everyone's secrets means she has few friends and trying her best may not bring her mother home.
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copies: 15
call number/section: FIC
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subjects: problem solving, middle schools, schools, friendship, sisters [X], dysfunctional families [X], family problems, school stories, family life [X]

The Year We Fell From Space

author: King, A. S
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 leave the house and carries a stuffed tiger at all times, her father is suffering from depression, but will not talk about it, and the brothers down the street, once friends, have turned into bullies--so when a tiny meteorite literally falls in her lap it is like a sign, but a sign of what?.
FIC
year: 2021
copies: 24
call number/section: FIC
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Tigers, Not Daughters

author: Mabry, Samantha
"Three sisters in San Antonio are shadowed by guilt and grief over the loss of their oldest sister, who still haunts their house"--Provided by publisher.
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year:
copies: 36
call number/section: FIC
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subjects: sisters [X], dysfunctional families [X], grief, hispanic americans, family problems, ghosts, ghost stories, family life [X]

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