Spring 2013 Kids' Indie Next ListFor Ruby Pepperdine, the center of everything is on the rooftop of Pepperdine Motors in her donut-obsessed town of Bunning, New Hampshire, stargazing from the circle of her grandmother Gigis hug.
When high school senior Noah Gallagher and his adopted teenage sister, Lo, go to live with their grandmother in her island cottage for the summer, they dont expect much in the way of adventure.
A New York Times Bestseller Nicolette's awful stepsisters call her ';Mechanica' to demean her, but the nickname fits: she learned to be an inventor at her mother's knee.
Grace Pizzelli is the average one, nothing like her brilliant older sister, Emily, who works for Rasmussem, creators of the worlds best virtual reality games.
Twelve-year-old June Farrell is sure of one thingshes great at making piesand she plans to prove it by winning a blue ribbon in the Champlain Valley Fair pie competition.
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, step inside Moscos Traveling Wonder Show, a menagerie of human curiosities and misfits guaranteed to astound and amaze!
Fourteen-year-old Luce has had a tough life, but she reaches the depths of despair when she is assaulted and left on the cliffs outside of a grim, gray Alaskan fishing village.
2011 National Book Award FinalistAs a fourteen-year-old who just moved to a new town, with no friends and a louse for an older brother, Doug Swieteck has all the stats stacked against him.
