.png "Library Home Page")
Elizabeth Morton
1) The testing
Author
Series
The Testing trilogy volume 1
Language
English
Description
Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. Isn't that what they say? But how close is too close when they may be one and the same? The Seven Stages War left much of the planet a charred wasteland. The future belongs to the next generation's chosen few who must rebuild it. But to enter this elite group, candidates must first pass The Testing -- their one chance at a college education and a rewarding career. Cia Vale is honored to be chosen as...
Author
Series
The Testing trilogy volume 2
Language
English
Description
Now a freshman at the University in Tosu City with her hometown sweetheart, Tomas, Cia Vale's attempts to expose the ugly truth behind the government's grueling and deadly Testing put her and her loved ones in great danger.
3) Dreamland
Author
Language
English
Description
After her older sister runs away, sixteen-year-old Caitlin decides that she needs to make a major change in her own life and begins an abusive relationship with a boy who is mysterious, brilliant, and dangerous.
Author
Series
Goosebumps. Original series volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Dr. Brewer is doing a little plant-testing in his basement. Nothing to worry about. Harmless, really. But Margaret and Casey Brewer are worried about their father. Especially when they ... meet ... some of the plants he is growing down there. Then they notice that their father is developing plantlike tendencies. In fact, he is becoming distinctly weedy--and seedy. Is this just part of their father's 'harmless' experiment? Or has the basement turned...
Author
Series
Cowgirl Kate and Cocoa volume 1
Language
English
Description
When Cocoa decides to explore the house, Cowgirl Kate has a hard time convincing him he must return to the barn.
Author
Series
Cowgirl Kate and Cocoa volume 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Cowgirl Kate and her horse Cocoa watch over the new calves, a puppy, and some baby barn owls.
Author
Series
Cowgirl Kate and Cocoa volume 3
Language
English
Description
Cocoa the horse does not want Cowgirl Kate to go to school without him.
Author
Series
Cowgirl Kate and Cocoa volume 5
Language
English
Description
In this fifth book in the series, Cocoa nudges his way right into Cowgirl Kate's house. He pokes his head through every doorway and finally decides to live in the best stall of all--the kitchen. What's a cowgirl to do? Well, whether under one roof--or two--there's no doubt these buckaroos will be pals forever!
12) The leanin' dog
Author
Language
English
Description
In wintry Colorado during the 1930s, eleven-year-old Dessa Dean mourns the death of her beloved mother, but the arrival of an injured dog and the friendship they form is just what they need to change their lives forever.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Last year Scottie, Tay, Amanda, and Bella were brought together by knitting needles in a friendship that defies all the odds in Chicks with Sticks (It's a Purl Thing). Now, the artist's daughter, trust-fund baby, tomboy, and new-age chick are as close-knit as friends can be. But this year their friendship faces a new challenge-boys.
14) Wild things
Author
Language
English
Description
Stubborn, self-reliant, eleven-year-old Zoe, recently orphaned, moves to the country to live with her prickly half-uncle, a famous doctor and sculptor, and together they learn about trust and the strength of family.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The powerful debut novel from New York Times best-selling author Jodi Picoult, Songs of the Humpback Whale is a moving story of love and family told through the eyes of five people: Jane Jones, her daughter Rebecca, and three very different men in their lives. After a watershed moment in their marriage, Jane leaves Oliver, her renowned marine biologist husband, and begins a journey across the country with Rebecca in search of understanding about her...
16) Graduation day
Author
Series
The Testing trilogy volume 3
Language
English
Description
With the United Commonwealth teetering on the brink of all-out civil war, this is the moment that gifted student and Testing survivor Cia Vale has trained for: the chance to lead. Having discovered the brutal truth behind The Testing, she has vowed to end it once and for all. As Cia plunges through layers of deception and danger, she must risk the lives of those she loves most and gamble on the loyalty of her lethal classmates. The stakes are higher...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"All of the chickens in the farmyard lay eggs regularly-- all except for P. Zonka, that is. She's too busy looking at the colors of the world around her. The other chickens think P. Zonka's just lazy...until she lays the most beautiful egg they've ever seen"--
18) Shug
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
A twelve-year-old girl learns about friendship, first loves, and self-worth in a small town in the South.
19) Gorgeous
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When eighteen-year-old Becky Randle's mother dies, she is whisked away from a trailer park to New York City, where fashion designer Tom Kelly offers to transform her into a glamorous Rebecca, a girl fit for a prince--but soon she begins to fear that she will lose touch with her real self.
20) Bionic
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A junior in high school, Mira has come back from a car crash with experimental prosthetics and chips that are implanted directly into her brain which has enhanced her hearing, and her athletic abilities--which all seems great until her friends and boyfriend turn against her, she gets cut from the lacrosse team because of her "unfair advantages," and the people in her town start calling her a cyborg; but worst of all she feels emotionally detached...
