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1) Skellig
Author
Language
English
Description
Unhappy about his baby sister's illness and the chaos of moving into a dilapidated old house, Michael retreats to the garage and finds a mysterious stranger who is something like a bird and something like an angel.
Author
Series
Lorien legacies volume 1
Language
English
Description
In rural Ohio, friendships and a beautiful girl prove distracting to a fifteen-year-old who has hidden on Earth for ten years waiting to develop the Legacies, or powers, he will need to rejoin the other six surviving Garde members and fight the Mogadorians who destroyed their planet, Lorien.
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Thirteen-year-old brilliant but socially-challenged Stewart and mean-girl Ashley must find common ground when, two years after Stewart's mother died, his father moves in with his new girlfriend--Ashley's mother, whose gay ex-husband lives in their guest house.
4) Firelight
Author
Series
Firelight novel volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When sixteen-year-old Jacinda, who can change into a dragon, is forced to move away from her community of shapeshifters and start a more normal life, she falls in love with a boy who proves to be her most dangerous enemy.
5) Unearthly
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperTeen
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixteen-year-old Clara Gardner's purpose as an angel-blood begins to manifest itself, forcing her family to pull up stakes and move to Jackson, Wyoming, where she learns that danger and heartbreak come with her powers.
Author
Series
Faire folk trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Flux
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
Upon the death of her mother, a Los Angeles attorney, fifteen-year-old Keelie is sent to live with her father, a woodworker at Renaissance fairs, and discovers that the odd "allergy" she has to wood is actually powerful earth magic that she must learn tocontrol.
7) Peanut
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Nervous about starting her sophomore year at a new high school, Sadie decides to make herself more interesting by claiming to be allergic to peanuts, but her lie quickly spirals out of control.
11) Across the pond
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
Moving to a Scottish castle allows seventh-grader Callie to escape friendship problems in San Diego, but finding new friends, even in the birding club an old journal inspires her to join, proves challenging.
14) Pop
Author
Publisher
Harpercollins
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Lonely after a midsummer move to a new town, high-school quarterback Marcus Jordan becomes friends with a retired professional linebacker whose erratic behavior confuses him, until Marcus discovers the player is actually suffering from a neurological disease.
15) Invisible lines
Author
Publisher
Egmont
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Coming from a poor, single-parent family, seventh-grader Trevor must rely on his intelligence, artistic ability, quick wit, and soccer prowess to win friends at his new Washington, D.C. school, but popular and rich Xander seems determined to cause him trouble.
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