Brilliant
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
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
year:
copies: 11
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: abandoned children, family life [X], sisters [X], responsibility, friendship, romance fiction, dysfunctional families [X], best friends, family problems, juvenile fiction / love & romance, juvenile fiction / family / siblings, juvenile fiction / social issues / friendship, juvenile fiction / family / parents, families, electronic books, electronic books
Odd & True
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
lexile:
subjects: sisters [X], poliomyelitis, people with disabilities, secrecy, dysfunctional families [X], secrets, family problems, monsters, missing persons, family life [X], paranormal fiction
Counting To Perfect
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
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.
FIC
year:
copies: 15
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
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
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
lexile:
subjects: depression (psychology), meteorites, divorce, family life [X], sisters [X], father-daughter relationship, mother-daughter relationship, bullies, realistic fiction, depression, mental, dysfunctional families [X], fathers and daughters, mothers and daughters, bullying, parent and child
Tigers, Not Daughters
"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.
FIC
year:
copies: 36
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: sisters [X], dysfunctional families [X], grief, hispanic americans, family problems, ghosts, ghost stories, family life [X]