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Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Description
While dealing with her parents' separation and her best friend's distance, Amanda is able to work out some of her anxiety through her fifth-grade project--writing a diary from the point of view of a ten-year-old girl whose brothers fight on opposite sides in the Civil War.
4) Amber House
Author
Series
Amber House trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
After her grandmother's death Sarah Parsons, nearly sixteen, delights in exploring her family's centuries-old Maryland estate with new friend Jackson, but soon she is having vivid visions of her ancestors, one of whom may be a threat to Sarah's autistic brother, Sam.
Author
Series
Alice McKinley. Main series volume 18
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Alice fills the summer before her junior year of high school with a job at the mall, hanging out with her friends, and wishing she had a bigger family.
Author
Series
Alice McKinley. Main series volume 25
Pub. Date
2013
Description
As Alice McKinley begins a new phase as a student at the University of Maryland, College Park, she experiences many changes, both expected and surprising, that lead her into a future her seventh-grade self could only have imagined.
Author
Series
Not-so-ordinary girl trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Fiona Finkelstein does not get along with Milo, a new student in her Ordinary, Maryland, fourth-grade class, and when he starts a meteorology club she responds by trying to start a matchmaking club.
9) Neverwas
Author
Series
Amber House trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
At her familys Maryland home, in a world where colonists lost the 1776 Insurrection, Sarah Parsons and her friend Jackson share visions of a different existence and, having remembered how things ought to be, plan a daring mission to set them right.
10) Miss Matched
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
Fiona Finkelstein does not get along with Milo, a new student in her Ordinary, Maryland, fourth-grade class, and when he starts a meteorology club she responds by trying to start a matchmaking club.
Author
Series
Not-so-ordinary girl trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Nine-year-old Marylander Fiona Finkelstein tries to deal with stage-fright, missing her mother who is an actress in California, and hoping that her father, a television meteorologist, does not get in trouble when she antagonizes the anchorman.
12) Unraveled
Author
Series
Amanda project volume 4
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
Investigating clues to Amanda's disappearance, Hal, Callie and Nia, accompanied by newcomer Zoe, track down Amanda's sister while dodging a powerful and mysterious group whose interest in Amanda is linked to a dark purpose.
13) Alice in charge
Author
Series
Alice McKinley. Main series volume 22
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
Along with the usual concerns of senior year in high school, Alice faces some very difficult situations, including vandalism by a group of Neo-Nazis and a friend's confession that a teacher has been taking advantage of her.
14) Incredibly Alice
Author
Series
Alice McKinley. Main series volume 23
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
Maryland teenager Alice McKinley spends her last semester of high school performing in the school play, working on the student paper, worrying about being away from her boyfriend, who will be studying in Spain, and anticipating her future in college.
15) Cricket man
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Thirteen-year-old Kenny secretly calls himself "Cricket Man" after a summer of rescuing creatures from his family's Bethesda, Maryland, pool, which gives him more self-confidence and an urge to be a hero, especially for his depressed sixteen-year-old neighbor, Jodie.
16) Shattered
Author
Series
Amanda project volume 3
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
When Amanda Valentino went into hiding, Nia, Callie, and Hal were shocked to learn that everything they thought they knew about her was false, even her name. But from the clues she leaves behind, they discover the danger that forced her to lie and then drove her underground. Despite the risks, her friends are determined to help Amanda. Following their latest lead, Nia unearths a series of mysterious symbols scattered throughout town. It's a code...