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Starstruck (Truth or dare. #4.)
Par Cathy Hopkins. 2003
Squidge has just started going out with Lia, and has promised to always be honest with her. But things get…
complicated when a film crew arrives in town and his dream to work on a movie comes true. Savannah, the teen star, adopts Squidge as her personal runner and starts to show an interest in him, but will he be able to keep her happy without breaking his promise to Lia? For Junior and Senior High readers. Some descriptions of sex. 2005, c2003. (Truth or dare ; 4)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.Sparkles
Par Louise Bagshawe. 2006
Crossing decades and continents, this is the story of the Massot family. Fabulously wealthy, internationally adored, the Massots own one…
of the last great aristocratic jewellery firms in Paris. But where is its owner Pierre, missing presumed dead for 15 years? And what will happen to his beautiful young widow Sophie? The answers lie rooted in the past and form part of the future in a way no-one could have guessed. Strong language. 2006.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.Songs of the humpback whale: a novel in five voices
Par Jodi Picoult. 1992
Each character tells his or her side of the story about Jane leaving her husband, Oliver, in San Diego, and…
taking along their teenaged daughter, Rebecca. Driving east toward Jane's brother Joley's place, Jane and Rebecca follow directions that Joley posts along the way. Later Sam enters the picture, and Oliver uses his oceanographic research skills to track his family down. Some strong language and descriptions of sex and violence. 1992.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.Split second
Par Fern Michaels. 1999
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.Spring fancy
Par LaVyrle Spencer. 1984
Winn, who is soon to be married, arrives at the rehearsal for her best friend's wedding. There she meets Joseph,…
and is carried away by his intoxicating attraction. Her confidence is shaken when she realizes how electric their connection is. Suddenly her upcoming marriage is in question. Some descriptions of sex. c1984.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.Something from Tiffany's
Par Melissa Hill. 2011
On 5th Avenue in New York City, two very different men are shopping for gifts: Gary is buying his girlfriend…
Rachel a charm bracelet, whereas Ethan's looking for something a little more special - an engagement ring. But when the two men's shopping bags get confused, and Rachel ends up with Ethan's ring, the couples' lives become intertwined. As Ethan tries to reunite the ring with the woman it was actually intended for, he discovers it isn't that easy. Some strong language. 2011.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.Silver thaw (Mystic Creek novel. #1.)
Par Catherine Anderson. 2015
After years of living in fear of her husband, Amanda Banning has left him and moved to Mystic Creek, Oregon,…
for a fresh start. But she's having a tough time providing for herself and her six-year-old daughter. Writing her secret yearnings on slips of paper and sending them into the wind helps her cling to the hope that things will get better. Jeb Sterling has no idea that the handwritten messages he finds scattered across his land are the first hints that his life is about to change. 2015.