Fay, Juliette.
Summary: Nurse Sean Doran returns from Africa and assumes the parental burden of caring for his aunt and nephew, a responsibility for which he is ill equipped. Soon, he reconnects with Becky, his childhood friend, but their budding romance is threatened by Sean's pathological reluctance to put down roots, and he has to finally decide what's most important to him.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2012
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FAYLay, Kathryn
Summary: Josh and Jenny are disturbed that their school is suddenly overrun with nearly identical substitute teachers who ask strange questions and record everything that the students say--but when their own teacher disappears the twins set out to find out what is going on, and who is responsible, and the reader must choose the solution.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Calico, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2015
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JBR BLUE LAYCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC UPHay, Sam
Summary: When a little boy stumbles across a lost star, he decides to take care of it, putting it in a jar and carrying it with him everywhere. But when the sky calls out for its missing star, can the little boy and his sister figure out a way to return the star to its friends in the sky...even if it means saying goodbye forever?
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Jabberwocky 2018
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E HAYFry, Jason
Summary: "A family of space privateers becomes embroiled in a solar system-wide conspiracy, all while the three sibling compete to determine who will become the next captain of the ship when their mother steps down"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2014
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC FRYMarillier, Juliet
Summary: Harp of Kings begins with a sister and brother arriving on Swan Island to compete for permanent places among the island's team of elite warriors and covert operatives. Over a lengthy training period, Liobhan and Brocc will not only be assessed against each other, they will need to prove themselves against the sons of chieftains and war-leaders. The competition is fierce; only two or three out...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MARGault, Miciah Bay
Summary: "Lydia and Lucas Moore are in their late twenties when a stranger enters their small world on Wolf Island. Lydia, the responsible sister, has cared for her pathologically shy brother, Lucas, ever since their mom's death a decade before. They live together, comfortable yet confined, in their family house by the sea, shadowed by events from their childhood. When Lydia sees the stranger step off...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Park Row 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAUGay, Marie-Louise.
Summary: Sam is full of questions on his first trip to the seashore and his older sister has an answer for each one, except whether or not Sam will ever come into the water.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books 1999
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC GAYCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FICTION GayCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GAYGay, Marie-Louise
Summary: Sam has the help of his big sister, Stella, when he has trouble getting dressed in the morning, decides Fred the dog needs to learn some new tricks--including swimming, cooking, and painting--and cannot sleep because he misses Fred.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GAYHosking, Jay
Summary: "After drifting between school and dead-end jobs, a young man makes the decision to return to the city he left after high school. The magnet is his beloved older sister, Grace: the golden girl, smart and charismatic even when rebelling, and always his hero. Now she is a promising graduate student in science and the center of a group of friends that take "Little Brother" into their fold, where...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOSGeorge, Jessica Day
Summary: "Castle Glower's towers have transported Princess Celie, her siblings, and her pet griffin, Rufus, to an unknown land. As they set out on a dangerous adventure to discover their whereabouts, they find an entire lost people, divided by the wishes of two wizards in a centuries-old quarrel over their beloved home--Castle Glower"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GEOLessing, Doris May
Summary: In a world destroyed by environmental damage, a people trek north in search of the remnants of civilization. They include two children and it is through their eyes that the novel analyzes the real meaning of civilization.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperFlamingo 1999
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LESGeorge, Jessica Day
Summary: Castle Glower's towers have transported Princess Celie, her siblings, and her pet griffin, Rufus, to an unknown land. As they set out on a dangerous adventure to discover their whereabouts, they find an entire lost people, divided by the wishes of two wizards in a centuries-old quarrel over their beloved home--Castle Glower.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD GEOPhi, Bao
Summary: On their way to a May Day parade, twins Hue and Hoa spy a confused-looking duck and try to help it reach the pond, while neighbors from many countries offer help and greetings in different languages.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Editions 2021
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE PHICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PHIAndrews, Mary Kay
Summary: "Conley Hawkins left her family's small town newspaper, the Silver Bay Beacon, years ago. Now a star reporter for a big-city paper, Conley is offered a new position in Washington, D.C.--but the job goes up in smoke. Conley finds herself back working for her sister at the Silver Bay Beacon, and she's been assigned the local gossip column, "Hello, Summer." Then Conley witnesses an accident that...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage company 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ANDKoontz, Dean R. (Dean Ray)
Summary: Frank Pollard is afraid to fall asleep. Every morning when he awakes, he discovers something strange--like blood on his hands--a bizarre mystery that tortures his soul. Two investigators have been hired to follow the haunted man. But only one person--a young man with Down's Syndrome--can imagine where their journeys might end. That terrible place from which no one ever returns. Now repackaged...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1990
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KOOKoontz, Dean R. (Dean Ray)
Summary: "The year is 1967. Malcolm Pomerantz is twelve, geeky, and socially awkward, while his seriously bright sister, Amalia, is spirited and beautiful. Each is the other's best friend, united by a boundless interest in the world beyond their dysfunctional parents' unhappy home. But even the troubled Pomerantz household will seem to be a haven compared to the house next door, after an enigmatic and...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017