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Twelve-year-old Billy Gillfoyle discovers that an island in the middle of the lake where he is spending the summer is the testing grounds of the mysterious Dr. Libris, who may have invented a way to make the characters in books come alive.

3) Kylie Jean, Summer camp queen

Author

Peschke, M

Series

Kylie Jean

Publisher

Picture Window Books

Pub. Date

[2013]

Description

School is over and Kylie Jean and her cousin Lucy are going to summer camp for a week of fun, but a girl named Miley seems determined to spoil the experience for everyone, and Kylie decides to discover what her problem is.

4) When we were young: a novel

Author

Kingsbury, Karen

Series

Baxter family series. Standalone novels Book 6

Pub. Date

2018

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"From #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury comes a classic story about second chances, featuring the beloved Baxter family and a young father who finds his whole world turned upside down on the eve of his divorce"--

5) Instructions for dancing

Author

Yoon, Nicola

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"After picking up a book from the library, Yvette--who has given up on love--gains the ability to see how other people's romantic relationships will end"--

6) Along for the ride: a novel

Author

Dessen, Sarah

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When Auden impulsively goes to stay with her father, stepmother, and new baby sister the summer before she starts college, all the trauma of her parents' divorce is revived, even as she is making new friends and having new experiences such as learning to ride a bike and dating.

7) Blended

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Piano-prodigy Isabella, eleven, whose black father and white mother struggle to share custody, never feels whole, especially as racial tensions affect her school, her parents both become engaged, and she and her stepbrother are stopped by police.

8) What happened to goodbye

Author

Dessen, Sarah

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Following her parents' bitter divorce as she and her father move from town to town, seventeen-year-old Mclean reinvents herself at each school she attends until she is no longer sure she knows who she is or where she belongs.

9) Suspects

Author

Steel, Danielle

Pub. Date

2022.

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"Theodora Morgan is fashion royalty. Founder of a wildly popular online shopping service, she is one of the most successful businesswomen in the world, although she prefers to keep a low profile, especially over the last months. It was a year ago when the unthinkable struck her family, and her husband, industry mogul Matthieu Pasquier, and their son were kidnapped and held for ransom—a nightmare that ended in tragedy. The case has gone cold, despite...

10) The Santa suit

Author

Andrews, Mary Kay

Pub. Date

2021.

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Description

"From May Kay Andrews, the New York Times bestselling author of Hello, Summer, comes a novella celebrating the magic of Christmas and second chances in The Santa Suit. When newly-divorced Ivy Perkins buys an old farmhouse sight unseen, she is definitely looking for a change in her life. The Four Roses, as the farmhouse is called, is a labor of love-but Ivy didn't bargain on just how much labor. The previous family left so much furniture and so much...

11) Dear Sweet Pea

Author

Murphy, Julie

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"Thirteen-year-old Patricia, widely known as Sweet Pea, navigates her parents' unconventional divorce and finds herself in the unlikely role of her town's advice columnist"--

12) Standing on my own two feet: a child's affirmation of love in the midst of divorce

Author

Schmitz, Tamara

Publisher

Price Stern Sloan

Pub. Date

[2008]

Description

Addison's parents are divorced and he lives in one house with his mom and another with his dad, but one thing he knows above all is that both his parents love him and they always will.

13) Living with Mom and living with Dad

Author

Walsh, Melanie

Publisher

Candlewick

Pub. Date

2012

Description

A little girl describes what her life is like now that her parents no longer live together.

14) Excellent Emma / (bk. 5 Emma McGraw)

Author

Warner, Sally

Series

Emma McGraw series Book 5

Publisher

Viking

Pub. Date

2009.

Description

When the third-graders compete in the first annual winter games, Emma feels that she must win in order to prove to her father, who is divorced from her mother and lives in England with his new wife, that she is good at something.

15) Kimberly

Author

Weyland, Jack

Publisher

Deseret Book Co

Pub. Date

c1992

Description

Twenty-one-year-old Ben falls in love with his singing partner Kimberly but finds their relationship strained by the divorce that is tearing apart her Mormon family.

16) Hatchet / (bk. 1 Brian Robeson)

Author

Paulsen, Gary

Series

Brian's saga Book 1
Brian Robeson Book 1

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RU (APA) 6th Grade

Formats

Book, Audio Book

Description

After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the Canadian wilderness, learning to survive with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce. Includes an introduction and sidebar commentary by the author.

17) I still love you, Dad

Author

Bode, Ann de

Series

Side by side

Publisher

Amicus

Pub. Date

[2011]

Description

Avon Camelot book
Leigh Botts

Laura wishes very much that her father still lived at home, so when her mother brings a man home for a visit Laura misbehaves in hopes of driving him off, but then finds herself liking him.

18) Dear Mr. Henshaw

Author

Cleary, Beverly

Series

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RU (APA) 4th Grade

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