Recovering Dad A Bianca Balducci Mystery Libby Sternberg It’s Bianca Balducci’s junior year in high school, and she’s got more than enough on her plate—impending SAT scores, college admissions, and the mixed signals of sort-of-boyfriend Doug. But when she finds out her mother, widowed as long as Bianca can remember, plans to marry Officer Steve… Continue reading Recovering Dad
Category: Young Adult
Uncovering Sadie’s Secrets
Uncovering Sadie’s Secrets: A Bianca Balducci Mystery Libby Sternberg In this gem of a book, scholar and wit Kenneth Lasson takes on all manner of excesses in the Ivory Tower, which from his insider’s viewpoint, constitute little less than a full-scale assault on American values and mores. Lasson uses his sharply pointed pen to skewer… Continue reading Uncovering Sadie’s Secrets
Finding the Forger
Finding the Forger: A Bianca Balducci Mystery Libby Sternberg Bianca Balducci, everybody’s favorite teenage amateur sleuth, is back on the case, and this time the resourceful Baltimorean has her hands more than full. On top of school (St. John’s), her two bickering friends (Kerrie and Sarah), and boy trouble (Doug), Bianca is brought in to… Continue reading Finding the Forger
The Strange Round Bird
The Strange Round Bird Or the Poet, the King, and the Mysterious Men in Black Eden Unger Bowditch The long-awaited Strange Round Bird brings Eden Unger Bowditch’s Young Inventors Guild trilogy to a satisfying conclusion—no mean feat with so many threads and mysteries to be resolved. The children—young inventors all—are brought together with their parents at last… Continue reading The Strange Round Bird
Calvert the Raven in the Battle of Baltimore
Calvert the Raven in the Battle of Baltimore J. Scott Fuqua You think history is boring? Baltimore kid Daniel does—until a chance encounter with a magical talking raven named Calvert sends him flying back to 1814, where he finds his home city under siege by a British army on the verge of defeating the United… Continue reading Calvert the Raven in the Battle of Baltimore
Singled Out
Singled Out Sara Griffiths There was a time when all was right in Taylor Dresden’s world—that is, as long as she was on the baseball diamond, pitching with all her heart. But that was years ago. Now, there’s no competition in her New Jersey high school, and summer league is not much better. With the… Continue reading Singled Out
Thrown a Curve
Thrown a Curve Sara Griffiths There was a time when all was right in Taylor Dresden’s world—that is, as long as she was on the baseball diamond, pitching with all her heart. Now, as she enters her senior year, the magic is gone. With the scouts losing interest because of her poor grades, and with… Continue reading Thrown a Curve
Mia the Magnificent
Mia the Magnificent Eileen Boggess Mia Fullerton has entered her freshman year at St. Hilary’s with a goal: to lose her nickname, “Mia the Meek,” and soar into a confident high school career. Unfortunately, her transformation is made harder by her English-teacher mom, bratty little brother, already popular nemesis, and new neighbor. Although she’s prepared… Continue reading Mia the Magnificent
The Atomic Weight of Secrets
The Atomic Weight of Secrets Or the Arrival of the Mysterious Men in Black Eden Unger Bowditch In 1903, five truly brilliant young inventors, the children of the world’s most important scientists, are taken from their lives and their parents by the mysterious men in black. They take twelve-year-old Jasper and six-year-old Lucy Modest from… Continue reading The Atomic Weight of Secrets
Hank
The First Novel of the Gunpowder Trilogy The First Novel of the Gunpowder Trilogy Arch Montgomery Meet Hank Collins, an astute, gutsy, and funny 13-year-old who’s just finished the seventh grade at a public school in Baltimore’s affluent suburbs. But all is not trouble-free for Hank. He must contend with a troubled family, an alien… Continue reading Hank