Jennifer L Holm
Author
Language
English
Description
Bell has spent his whole life--all eleven years of it--on Mars. But he's still just a regular kid-he loves cats, any kind of cake, and is curious about the secrets the adults in the US colony are keeping. Like, why don't have contact with anyone on the other Mars colonies? Why are they so isolated? When a virus breaks out and the grown-ups all fall ill, Bell and the other children are the only ones who can help. It's up to Bell--a regular kid in a...
Author
Series
Fourteenth goldfish volume 1
Language
English
Description
Ellie's scientist grandfather has discovered a way to reverse aging, and consequently has turned into a teenager--which makes for complicated relationships when he moves in with Ellie and her mother, his daughter.
Author
Series
Turtle in Paradise volume 1
Language
English
Description
In 1935, when her mother gets a job housekeeping for a woman who does not like children, eleven-year-old Turtle is sent to stay with relatives she has never met in far away Key West, Florida.
Author
Language
English
Description
As she turns twelve during the summer of 1953, Penny gains new insights into herself and her family while also learning a secret about her father's death. It's1953 and 11-year-old Penny dreams of a summer of butter pecan ice cream, swimming, and baseball. But nothing's that easy in Penny's family. For starters, she can't go swimming because her mother's afraid she'll catch polio at the pool. To make matters worse, her favorite uncle is living in a...
Author
Series
May Amelia volume 1
Language
English
Description
As the only girl in a Finnish American family of seven brothers, May Amelia Jackson resents being expected to act like a lady while growing up in Washington state in 1899
Author
Series
Boston Jane adventures volume 1
Language
English
Description
Schooled in the lessons of etiquette for young ladies of 1854, Miss Jane Peck of Philadelphia finds little use for manners during her long sea voyage to the Pacific Northwest and while living among the American traders and Chinook Indians of Washington Territory.
Author
Series
May Amelia volume 2
Language
English
Description
Living with seven brothers and her father, who thinks girls are useless, a thirteen-year-old Finnish American farm girl is determined to prove her worth when a enterprising gentleman tries to purchase their cash-strapped family settlement in Washington State in 1900.
Author
Series
Boston Jane adventures volume 1
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
Girls looking for adventure, romance, and a strong heroine will love the second book in this action-packed historical trilogy by three-time Newbery Honor winner and New York Times bestselling author Jennifer L. Holm.
1854. The Pacific Northwest. Sixteen-year-old Jane Peck has traveled halfway around the world in the name of true love, only to find herself alone on the frontier, abandoned by her no-good fiancé! With nothing of her...
1854. The Pacific Northwest. Sixteen-year-old Jane Peck has traveled halfway around the world in the name of true love, only to find herself alone on the frontier, abandoned by her no-good fiancé! With nothing of her...
Author
Series
Boston Jane adventures volume 1
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fans of Boston Jane: An Adventure and Boston Jane: Wilderness Days will revel in the rip-roaring adventure, romance, and humor of this spectacularly spirited and satisfying conclusion to New York Times bestselling and three-time Newbery Honor–winning author Jennifer L. Holm's acclaimed historical fiction trilogy.
Seventeen-year-old Jane Peck is the darling of Washington Territory—more at home in a primitive pioneer...
Seventeen-year-old Jane Peck is the darling of Washington Territory—more at home in a primitive pioneer...
Author
Series
Boston Jane adventures volume 3
Language
English
Description
The arrival from Philadelphia of her spiteful nemesis Sally Biddle and the return of her corrupt ex-fiance Richard Baldt spell trouble for seventeen-year-old Miss Jane Peck, who has survived on her own in Shoalwater Bay, a community of white settlers and Chinook Indians in 1850s Washington Territory
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
Meet the Evil Princess and the Brave Knight. She casts terrible spells, while he fights dragons. He rescues cats in distress, while she makes mischief. No wonder there isn't much peace in this kingdom! But is the Evil Princess really so evil? And is the Brave Knight truly as chivalrous as he seems?
Author
Publisher
Random House Graphic
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
246 pages : chiefly illustrations (colour) ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1935, when her mother gets a job housekeeping for a woman who does not like children, eleven-year-old Turtle is sent to stay with relatives she has never met in far away Key West, Florida.
Author
Series
BIG adventures of Babymouse volume 1
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
206 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Babymouse has a BIG imagination that comes to life when she dreams of having straight whiskers"--
14) Full of beans
Author
Series
Turtle in Paradise volume 2
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Beans Curry, a member of the Keepsies, the best marble playing gang in Depression-era Key West, Florida, engages in various schemes to earn money while "New Dealers" from Washington, D.C., arrive to turn run down Key West into a tourist resort.
16) Swing it, Sunny!
Author
Series
Sunny side up volume 2
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
217 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the mid-1970s Sunny Lewin is back, star of her personal show, facing the prospect of Middle School, and dealing with the problems of her somewhat dysfunctional family--in particular her older brother, Dale, who has been sent off to a military academy because of his delinquent behavior.
Author
Series
Sunny side up volume 3
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
215 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Sunny's just made it to middle school . . . and it's making her life very confusing. All her best friend Deb wants to talk about is fashion, boys, makeup, boys, and being cool. Sunny's not against any of these things, but she also doesn't understand why suddenly everything revolves around them. She's much more comfortable when she's in her basement, playing Dungeons & Dragons with a bunch of new friends. Because when you're swordfighting and spider-slaying,...
18) The creek
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
vi, 232 p. ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Around the time of her thirteenth birthday, Penny's suburban Philadelphia neighborhood is terrorized by a psychopath and everyone is sure that the young man just out of a juvenile home is responsible
19) Whisker Wizard
Author
Series
Babymouse: Tales from the locker volume 5
Babymouse Tales from the locker volume 5
Babymouse.Tales from the locker volume 5
Babymouse Tales from the locker volume 5
Babymouse.Tales from the locker volume 5
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
195 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Babymouse becomes a influencer after she tries out a new whisker style and posts a tutorial online"--
Author
Series
Babymouse: Tales from the locker volume 1
Babymouse.Tales from the locker volume 1
Babymouse Tales from the locker volume 1
Babymouse.Tales from the locker volume 1
Babymouse Tales from the locker volume 1
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
197 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Babymouse joins the school Film Club and writes the greatest cinematic masterpiece of all time! But when the movie gets shown to the entire school, will it be a box office hit or a flop?"--