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Spider's web (Northern lights young novels)
Par Sharon Stewart. 1998
Alone and bored in the house, Spider logs onto the Internet and discovers she can invent a whole new identity…
for herself. The new personality seems like an improvement on her old self and she suddenly finds herself to be popular with net friends like she could never be in real life. Eventually, she realizes she's in over her head and what she really needs are real friends. Grades 5-8. 1998. (Northern lights young novels)Spud in winter (Spud Sweetgrass Ser.)
Par Brian Doyle. 1995
Spud witnesses a gang shooting near Rocco's Cafe in Ottawa. He hesitates in relaying the information to Detective Kennedy, since…
it could endanger his friend Connie, as well as himself. Spud and his best friend Dink the Thinker now have more to contemplate than just the meaning of the universe. Grades 4-7. c1995.Snow flower and the secret fan
Par Lisa See. 2006
Lily is the daughter of a humble farmer, and to her family she is just another expensive mouth to feed.…
Then, the local matchmaker delivers startling news: if Lily's feet are bound properly, they will be flawless. In nineteenth-century China, where a woman's eligibility is judged by the shape and size of her feet, this is extraordinary good luck. Lily, now, has the power to make a good marriage and change the fortunes of her family. To prepare for her new life, she must undergo the agonies of foot binding, learn nu shu, the famed secret women's writing, and make a very special friend, Snow Flower. But, a bitter reversal of fortune is about to change everything. 2006.Sofie & Cecilia
Par Katherine Ashenburg. 2018
The story of a lifelong female friendship, set in the fascinating art world of Sweden between 1900 and 1940, just…
as modern art and the beginnings of the Scandinavian mid-century modern design movement were inspiring a creative revolution across northern Europe. Loosely based on the lives of celebrated artists Carl Larsson and Anders Zorn, Ashenburg transports us behind both the public and domestic scenes--and canvasses--of these larger-than-life men to reveal the lesser-known but equally astounding and rich stories of the women who married them: restlessly creative artist-in-her-own-right Sofie Olsson, and fiercely private and intelligent curator Cecilia Vogt. 2018.Stained
Par Jennifer Jacobson. 2005
1975. Sixteen-year-old Jocelyn grapples with ambivalent boyfriend Benny and the frightening disappearance of Gabe, whom she's known from early childhood.…
Both Benny and Gabe seem to be influenced in some dark way by the local Roman Catholic priest, Father Warren, the link between the three of them. Some descriptions of sex and some strong language. For senior high readers. 2005.Spelling Mississippi: a novel
Par Marnie Woodrow. 2002
Cleo, a Canadian on holiday in New Orleans, is sitting alone on a French Quarter wharf late one November night…
when a woman clad in full evening dress takes a running leap off the wharf into the river. When the woman, whom Cleo has assumed was dead by suicide, reappears a few nights later on the late evening news, Cleo is determined to find her. Both women make some startling self-discoveries and even find romance when Cleo finds the mysterious woman at last. 2002.Spiderweb: a novel
Par Penelope Lively. 1998
Retired social anthropologist Stella Brentwood moves to western rural England near her old school chums. Stella has lived all over…
the world and observed many different societies in her line of work. But once in the country, she finds it difficult to adjust--especially with a dangerous, dysfunctional family next door. 1999, c1998.Soup for president
Par Robert Newton Peck. 1978
Rob manages Soup's campaign for class president in their small Vermont town, but they wind up in trouble as usual.…
Sequel to "Soup & me." Followed by "Soup on ice." Grades 4-7. 1978.Someday Angeline
Par Louis Sachar. 1983
Angeline could read the first time she picked up a book and play the piano without lessons. But being smart…
means that the mean kids in school call her a freak, her teacher finds her troublesome, and even her own father doesn't know what to do with her. Angeline just wants the chance to be herself, but it's only when she makes friends with a boy the kids call "Goon" and the teacher they call "Mr. Bone" that she gets that chance. Grades 4-7. c1983.Sophie's choice (Virago Modern Classics)
Par William Styron. 2004
Stingo, an inexperienced twenty-two year old Southerner, takes us back to the summer of 1947 and a boarding house in…
a leafy Brooklyn suburb. There he meets Nathan, a fiery Jewish intellectual; and Sophie, a beautiful and fragile Polish Catholic. Stingo is drawn into the heart of their passionate and destructive relationship as witness, confidant and supplicant. Ultimately, he arrives at the dark core of Sophie's past: her memories of pre-war Poland, the concentration camp and - the essence of her terrible secret - her choice. 2004, c1979.Something borrowed: A Novel
Par Emily Giffin. 2004
New York attorney and perennial "good girl" Rachel celebrates her thirtieth birthday by sleeping with her childhood friend Darcy's fiancé…
Dex. Rachel discovers that Dex, a classmate from their law school days, really loves her but is afraid to end his engagement. Some strong language. 2004.Slot machine
Par Chris Lynch. 1996
Fourteen-year-old Elvin, his two best friends, and other incoming male freshmen of a Christian high school spend three weeks at…
summer camp. The goal is to find an athletic slot for each boy. Unfortunately, as overweight Elvin sarcastically explains in letters to his mother, he's not the athletic type. Some strong language. For junior and senior high readers. 1996.Sky Lake summer
Par Peggy Dymond Leavey. 1999
When thirteen-year-old Jane Covington is sent to spend her summer vacation with her grandmother at Sky Lake, the last thing…
she expects to be doing is solving a seventy-year-old mystery. But that's exactly what she does when she becomes interested in a long ago fire. Jane finds a cry for help in the form of a letter tucked into an old library book and begins the search for more clues and information with a little help from her friend Corrie. Grades 5-8. 1999.Sixty-six
Par Barry Levinson. 2003
Baltimore in 1966 is a quiet, blue-collar town. But all that is about to change for one group of young…
men. Bobby drops out of law school during his final year. Neil heads for the war in Vietnam, but goes AWOL and comes home as an antiwar protester. Ben marries the Cadillac dealer's daughter and half-heartedly begins his new life as son-in-law to the boss. Turko and Eggy discover the decadence of the '60s, but struggle to adapt. 2003.Silver girl: a novel
Par Elin Hilderbrand. 2011
Although they are estranged, recently widowed Connie helps her childhood friend Meredith after Meredith's husband is arrested for running a…
Ponzi scheme. The two retreat to Connie's Nantucket home, where they cautiously rekindle their friendship and find surprising romances. Bestseller. 2011.Shug
Par Jenny Han. 2006
At twelve, Annemarie, called Shug (short for sugar) by her family, feels that nothing is going right. She is too…
tall and skinny, she has a crush on her best friend Mark who doesn’t notice, and even her girlfriends are changing. Grades 5-8. 2006.Sidewalk story
Par Sharon Bell Mathis. 1971
Sheer abandon
Par Penny Vincenzi. 2005
One night in 1986 an abandoned baby girl is found in a cleaning cupboard at Heathrow airport. A year earlier,…
three girls, Martha, Clio and Jocasta had met by chance, at the start of a backpacking adventure. It would be a long time until they met again: when Kate, the foundling, is a teenager, and the three women are all leading successful lives. Which of them is Kate's mother? Why was she desperate enough to do such a thing, and how did she survive it? 2005.Shark bait
Par Graham Salisbury. 1998
Twelve-year-old Mokes is torn between obeying his father, the police chief in the small town of Kailua, Hawaii, and being…
with his friends who plan to go see a fight between an island boy and a sailor. Grades 4-7. 1998.Sea change: a Toon graphic
Par Frank Viva. 2016
Follows a young boy who is reluctantly sent to spend the summer in a remote part of Nova Scotia. As…
the summer wears on, the hero forges solid friendships with other kids in the small fishing community and is changed forever by the experience. Grades 5-8. 2016.