Jimmy Gownley
Author
Series
Publisher
Graphix
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"What if the dumbest idea ever turned your life upside down? At thirteen, Jimmy was popular, at the top of his class, and the leading scorer on his basketball team. But all that changed when chicken pox forced him to miss the championship game. Things went from bad to worse when he got pneumonia and missed even more school. Before Jimmy knew it, his grades were sinking and nothing seemed to be going right. How did Jimmy turn things around, get back...
Author
Series
Amelia rules! book volume 2
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Amelia McBride is curious about her Aunt Tanner's fame as a former rock star, devoted to her friend Reggie and his superhero club, goes to a funeral, and thinks about life and love.
Author
Series
Amelia rules! book volume 7
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
While trying to figure out the meaning of life, Amelia learns that even when the world is scary and life is as mystifying as ever, some things, such as friends, do last.
Author
Series
Amelia rules! book volume 6
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Amelia Louise McBride's eleventh birthday party is fabulous, but soon her friends are fighting all the time, she gets a terrible report card, and when she summons the courage to tell a boy how she feels about him, she learns why it is called a "crush."
Author
Series
Amelia rules! book volume 4
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
When her Aunt Tanner brings out a box of mementos, ten-year-old Amelia Louise McBride learns things about her family history that help her deal with such current issues as her first date and the deployment of a friend's father to Iraq.
Author
Series
Amelia rules! book volume 1
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
After moving in with her Aunt Tanner after her parents' divorce, Amelia tries to fit in at a new school.
11) Her three kisses
Author
Series
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
After the funeral of a great-aunt she never met, Amelia McBride is pressured into joining a game of spin-the-bottle with "the ninjas," who turn out to be the sons of Aunt Tanner's childhood enemy, Julie.
12) Joy and wonder
Author
Series
Amelia rules! book volume 3
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
When Amelia and her friends tag along on Aunt Tanner's business trip to New York City, Amelia gets to visit with her father and best friend, Sunday Jones, and learns a lesson about home.
Author
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Kirby creates online videos showing kids why growing up isn't all it's cracked up to be, but when his best friend, Raja, finds out that Kirby isn't the person he's pretending to be, they may be forced to grow up sooner than they think.
Author
Series
Amelia rules! book volume 5
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
Amelia McBride and her friends at Joe McCarthy Elementary School try to figure out how to be popular, or at least not to be unpopular.
Author
Series
Trot and Cap'n Bill adventure volume 2
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
School's out and Trot and Cap'n Bill are looking forward to a carefree summer of surfing. But trouble surfaces when Grandpa hooks a message in a bottle while fishing. Clia, the Sea Siren princess, and Anko, King of the Sea Serpents, need their help: Merla, their Sea Siren friend, has been kidnapped! Trot, her cat, and her grandfather join the rescue effort which takes them to an old abandoned amusement park island resort, where plans are afoot for...
Author
Series
Trot and Cap'n Bill adventure volume 1
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Trot, a Vietnamese American surfer girl, and Cap'n Bill, her cranky one-eyed cat, catch too big a wave and wipe out, sucked down into a magical underwater kingdom where an ancient deep-sea battle rages. The beautiful Sea Siren mermaids are under attack from the Serpent King and his slithery minions--and Trot and her feline become dangerously entangled in this war of tails and fins. This beautiful graphic novel was inspired by The Sea Fairies, L. Frank...