Catalog Search Results
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
As their father, a brilliant oceanographer, approaches his 70th birthday, siblings Ken and Abby, who have a troubled and complicated relationship, each plan the elaborate gifts for him, jockeying for primacy in this small family unit, in a novel that draws on the biblical tale of Cain and Abel.
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A merry mashup of sisterly affection, parental disappointment, and bold action, Polite Society follows martial artist-in-training Ria Khan, who believes she must save her older sister Lena from her impending marriage. After enlisting the help of her friends, Ria attempts to pull off the most ambitious of all wedding heists in the name of independence and sisterhood.
5) Ferris
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
During the summer before fifth grade, Ferris Wilkey has her hands full with her little sister terrorizing the town, her Aunt Shirley moving into their basement and her grandmother seeing a ghost--one who has wild, impractical and illuminating plans.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Asha has spent her life on an island community built on the principle of truth. But she discovers she has been lied to about something huge – a secret sister called Willow. Willow has always believed her twin sister died years ago. So when she receives a message in the middle of the night from a girl claiming to be Asha, she doesn’t know what to think. Can they piece together the truth about their pasts and find their way back to each other?
Publisher
20th Century Studios
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Still reeling from the heartbreaking death of their mother, a teenage girl and her younger sister find themselves hounded by a sadistic presence in their house and struggle to get their grieving father to pay attention before it's too late.
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Savannah was four years old when her twin sister, Georgia, went missing from their small Louisiana town, fracturing their family. Twenty-eight years later, Savannah convinces her estranged older sisters, Rayanne and Sue Ellen, to honor the pact they made as children and retrieve the time capsule they buried in their old backyard. But coming home means confronting old ghosts…and their stubborn grandmother, Meemaw. When old tensions, rivalries, and...
Author
Series
Sisters of the Rockies volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Juniper and her sisters travel west to find the Blackfoot Piegan woman their late father credits with saving his life. Riley became a trapper in the Rocky Mountains to find peace and quiet, but he feels compelled to help the sisters on their mission. When it becomes clear they're now under pursuit, the questions mount as danger closes in"--
Author
Series
No more (Kerry Lonsdale) volume 3
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
After serving six months in a juvenile detention center, Lucas Carson returns home irrevocably changed by what happened there. Traumatized, Lucas shuts himself out from everyone he loves, even his younger sister, Lily, who ran away from home when she was pregnant at sixteen. When Lily resurfaces years later, Lucas can't cope with his guilt about not being there for her. He takes off, only to cross paths with Shiloh Bloom -- fifteen, homeless, and,...
Author
Series
Witchlore volume 2
Publisher
Graydon House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Returning to her coven ten years after being stripped of her magic and banished, Rebekah is happy to reunite with her sister, and with her friends, but the implications of her return are darker and more dangerous than they could have imagined. The Joywood are determined to prove Rebekah and her friends are a danger to witchkind, and her group faces an impending death sentence if they can't prove otherwise. Rebekah must seek help from the only one...
13) Double lives
Author
Series
Publisher
Dafina
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Depression-era, Southern identical twin sisters decide to switch places when one is being stifled in a passionless marriage and the other is heartbroken over losing her true love.
14) The followers
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Single mom Molly Sullivan has built a career out of fearless posts about parenthood and dating. But when Molly shares a photo of her new fiancé, Scott, she is shocked by his negative reaction. For the sake of their relationship, Molly agrees to keep Scott and his daughter out of the spotlight. But it’s too late, Liv Barrett is certain Scott’s the man who killed her sister and disappeared with her infant niece nine years ago. The police don’t...
15) Squished
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Tired of feeling squished by her six siblings, 11-year-old aspiring artist Avery Lee hatches a plan to finally get her own room until everything around her gets complicated, especially when she finds out her family might move across the country.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Despite they are all the other has, orphaned twin sisters Aelish and Isabel are propelled in opposite directions as they grow up and, separated for decades, each unaware of the other's life, are unexpectedly reunited, bringing to light the painful secrets and seismic deceptions that have kept them apart.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Astrid Xu stumbles upon an ancient Chinese scroll that she hopes is the key to curing her mother's depression, but when it transports her and her younger sister Marilla to a realm where Chinese legends are real, they suddenly find themselves caught in a war between good and evil.
18) The kill club
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Jazz and Joaquin's foster mother, Carol, has always been fanatical, but with Jazz grown up and out of the house, Carol takes a dangerous turn that threatens thirteen-year-old Joaquin's life. Over and over, child services fails to intervene, and Joaquin is running out of time. Then Jazz gets a blocked call from someone offering a solution. There are others like her--people the law has failed. They've formed an underground network of 'helpers', each...
Author
Publisher
Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"When Miosotis Flores discovers that her sister Amarilis's fiancé is physically abusive to her, she must decide how to help, while also caring for a rescue dog and pursuing better grades in school"--
Author
Publisher
JIMMY Patterson Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
When her sister runs away to Seattle, Eleanor, a writer of elaborate stories, chases after her to a big, unforgiving city where she faces many obstacles and new possibilities as she tries to make her own happy ending.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request