We Have Always Lived In The Castle
The quiet, isolated life of the Blackwoods--eighteen-year-old Merricat; her older sister, Constance, who may have poisoned their parents six years ago; and their wheelchair-bound uncle--is disrupted by the arrival of a cousin pursuing the family fortune.
FIC
year: 2006
copies: 25
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 980
subjects: family, cousins, wealth, family life [X], social isolation [X], inheritance and succession, poisoning, loneliness, jackson, shirley, families
What They Always Tell Us
Sixteen-year-old Alex feels so disconnected from his friends that he starts his junior year at a Tuscaloosa, Alabama, high school by attempting suicide, but soon, a friend of his older brother draws him into cross-country running and a new understanding of himself.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 11
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 810
subjects: social isolation [X], brothers, self-actualization (psychology), high schools, schools, tuscaloosa (ala.), family, loneliness, self-realization, homosexuality, family life [X], school stories, families
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, father and child, friendship, social isolation [X], school stories, family life [X], dating (social customs), high schools, schools, family, families
Asta In The Wings
After a delusional widowed mother goes missing, her two children who she did not allow out of the home and had created their own fantasy life, are now forced to encounter the real world and real people.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: girls, mother-daughter relationship, sibilings, loneliness, family life [X], maine, mothers and daughters, social isolation [X], siblings, brothers and sisters