Pride And Prejudice
Presents an illustrated retelling of Jane Austen's novel about spirited Englishwoman Elizabeth Bennet, who tries to cope with the snobbish Mr.
FIC
year: 2005
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 770
subjects: young women, family life, love, england, courtship, sisters [X], interpersonal relations [X], family, love stories
Just Grace And The Terrible Tutu
Eight-year-old Grace is excited to learn that her best friend, Mimi, is going to become an older sister, but when both try to be "mother's helpers" for a family renting a house on their street, little Lily likes Grace best, causing Mimi to doubt herself and Grace to form a plan to fix things.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 29
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 820
Give Up The Ghost
Sixteen-year-old Cass's only friends are her dead sister and the school ghosts who feed her gossip that she uses to make students face up to their bad behavior, but when a popular boy asks for her help, she begins to reach out to the living again.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 9
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 660
The Total Tragedy Of A Girl Named Hamlet
Hamlet's attempts to be a "normal" eighth grader become increasingly difficult when her genius seven-year-old sister and her eccentric Shakespeare scholar parents both begin to attend her school.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 23
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 750
subjects: shakespeare, william, sisters [X], interpersonal relations [X], self-confidence, middle schools, schools
Peace, Love, & Baby Ducks
Fifteen-year-old Carly's summer volunteer experience makes her feel more real than her life of privilege in Atlanta ever did, but her younger sister starts high school pretending to be what she is not, and both find their relationships suffering.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 45
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 630
Dreamland
After her older sister runs away, sixteen-year-old Caitlin decides that she needs to make a major change in her own life and begins an abusive relationship with a boy who is mysterious, brilliant, and dangerous.
FIC
year: 2000
copies: 31
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 920
Black Box
When her sixteen-year-old sister is hospitalized for depression and her parents want to keep it a secret, fourteen-year-old Elena tries to cope with her own anxiety and feelings of guilt that she is determined to conceal from outsiders.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 33
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 600
subjects: depression, mental, sisters [X], dysfunctional families, interpersonal relations [X], high schools
The Six Rules Of Maybe
Obsessed with solving people's problems, Scarlet finds herself often pushing her own needs off to the side.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 19
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 820
subjects: interpersonal relations [X], sisters [X], pregnancy, mothers and daughters, families, oregon, mother-daughter relationship, school stories, high schools, family life, schools, family
Zen & Xander Undone
Sisters Zen and Xander Vogel are each dealing with the death of their mother in different ways, with Xander risking her future by experimenting with late-night parties, men, and dangerous drugs and Zen struggling to protect her sister and discover what she wants out of life.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 730
subjects: sisters [X], grief, death, interpersonal relations [X], bereavement, family problems, self-destructive behavior, dysfunctional families
The Extraordinary Secrets Of April, May & June
Sisters April, May, and June, dealing with their parents' divorce and a move to a new town, recover special powers they had in childhood to help them through a difficult year, but when April, who can see the future, has a vision of disaster, the girls must somehow save the day.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 7
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 670
Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm
An abridged version of Kate Douglas Wiggin's classic story of talkative, ten-year-old Rebecca's adventures after she leaves her home at Sunnybrook Farm to go live in town with her spinster aunts, one harsh and demanding, the other soft and sentimental.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 15
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1190
subjects: aunts, new england, city and town life, interpersonal relations [X], coming of age, domestic fiction, older women, sisters [X], maine
That Summer
During the summer of her divorced father's remarriage and her sister's wedding, fifteen-year-old Haven comes into her own by letting go of the myths of the past.
FIC
year: 2006
copies: 61
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1020
The Bridesmaid
Having vowed as children never to marry after witnessing many disastrous weddings and obnoxious brides in their parents' wedding planning business, fifteen-year-old Abby is dismayed when her older sister Carol suddenly gets engaged and turns into "Bridezilla.
FIC
year: 2005
copies: 8
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 740
Dead Is The New Black
While dealing with her first boyfriend and suddenly being pressed into service as a substitute cheerleader, seventeen-year-old Daisy Giordano, daughter and sister of psychics but herself a "normal," attempts to help her mother discover who is behind a series of bizarre attacks on teenage girls in their little town of Nightshade, California.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 28
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 640
subjects: cheerleading, psychic ability, interpersonal relations [X], high schools, schools, sisters [X], supernatural
We Hear The Dead
A historical romance that tells the true story of the infamous Fox sisters, who invented the seance in 1948.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1070
subjects: fox, margaret, jencken, catherine fox, kane, elisha kent, sisters [X], spiritualism, swindlers and swindling, interpersonal relations [X], explorers, united states