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 [X]
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 [X]
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 [X]