by Michelle Dalton (2014)
"A romance blooms between surfer girl Izzy and city boy Ben in a small island town as the two try to figure out if their love affair is more than a summer fling"--
S.T. Underdahl
When Lucy is almost sixteen years old, she spends a summer losing her best friend, dating a boy she previously despised, and watching her beloved grandmother fall victim to Alzheimer's disease. Includes author's note with facts about Alzheimer's disease.
Carol Weston
While spending spring break in Spain with her family, eleven-year-old Melanie keeps a diary of her experiences improving her Spanish, struggling with her little brother, meeting her mother's former boyfriend, and falling in love with his son.
Robin Mayhall
Upon moving to small-town Texas part-way into her junior year of high school, Serena sees parallels between the novel her class is studying, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and the two men in her life: boyfriend Lance, the quarterback, and outsider Cam.
Tim Wynne-Jones
In the summer of 1962 with everyone nervous about a possible nuclear war, ten-nearly-eleven-year-old Rex, having just moved to Ottawa from Vancouver with his parents and five siblings, faces his own personal challenges as he discovers new friends and a new understanding of the world around him.