Erin Downing
2) Juicy gossip
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"Jenna Sampson, perfectly normal seventh grader and editor of the school newspaper, is mortified. Her parents are opening a super-embarrassing juice bar at the mall. Jenna has to work there ... and wear a ridiculous uniform. She's pretty sure her life can't get worse, until she finds out that the school paper might shut down. But the gossip Jenna overhears from the juice bar is totally newsworthy, which gives her a great idea. A gossip column could...
3) Kiss it
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Small-town Minnesotan Chastity (Chaz) Bryan wants nothing more than to get some sexual experience before she graduates from high school and moves away, but when she meets an intriguing boy visiting from South Carolina over Christmas break, her tough-girl facade slowly breaks down.
4) Moon shadow
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"On the night of her thirteen birthday, Lucia Frank's shadow half slips out and begins to act in ways that Lucia has always wanted but been afraid to do. Now Lucia is becoming the girl she's always wanted to be -- fearless and assertive -- but is there another cost to bear?"--
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Two years after her parents' surprising and painful split, twelve-year-old Jo and her mom find themselves on the 100-mile hike on the Superior Hiking Trail along Lake Superior's north shore--a journey that Jo had always looked forward to hiking with her dad. It's not a situation that either of them ever predicted they'd find themselves in, yet here they are in the wilderness with their entire lives stuffed into a pair of thirty-pound packs. Along...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After a tough year, Lucy, Freddy, and Herb Peach are ready for vacation. Lucy wants to read all of the books on the summer reading list. Freddy wants to work on his art projects (when he isn't stuck in summer school). Herb wants to swim every day. Then their dad makes a big announcement: one of the inventions their mom came up with before she passed away has sold, and now they're millionaires! But Dad has bigger plans than blowing the cash on fun...
Author
Series
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mix together a used food truck, a road trip that doesn't exactly go as planned, and a lot of pie, and you have the recipe for this sweet middle grade series starter brimming with humor, heart, and a family you'll fall in love with. Perfect for readers who gobbled down The Penderwicks and The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street.
Sweet summer has taken a rotten turn . . .
After a tough year, Lucy, Freddy, and Herb...
Sweet summer has taken a rotten turn . . .
After a tough year, Lucy, Freddy, and Herb...
Author
Series
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
A frozen family “business trip” to Sweden’s Ice Hotel sets the Peaches on a new grand adventure.
The third book in The Great Peach Experiment, great for fans of The Penderwicks and The Vanderbeekers.
Cashing in on his family’s recent good-luck streak, ten-year-old Freddy Peach has been entering his family in a bunch of sweepstakes, but he doesn’t really expect to win. And then he does—a free...
The third book in The Great Peach Experiment, great for fans of The Penderwicks and The Vanderbeekers.
Cashing in on his family’s recent good-luck streak, ten-year-old Freddy Peach has been entering his family in a bunch of sweepstakes, but he doesn’t really expect to win. And then he does—a free...
11) Controlled burn
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Maia's parents say she's lucky she noticed something as early as she did. Lucky to have smelled the smoke, lucky to have pulled her sister, Amelia, out of their burning house. But is it really "lucky" when Amelia's stuck in the hospital, covered in burns? And is it "lucky" when Maia knows it was her candle, left unattended, that started the fire in the first place?...As she begins to figure out how to face her guilt and paralyzing...