Adele Griffin
1) Tighter
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Based on Henry James's "The Turn of the Screw," tells the story of Jamie Atkinson's summer spent as a nanny in a small Rhode Island beach town, where she begins to fear that the estate may be haunted, especially after she learns of two deaths that occurred there the previous summer.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
338 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"At I'll Have Seconds, a high-end fairytale vintage dress shop in Manhattan, Nora Hammond loves nothing better than pairing a rare find with the perfect client. At home, Nora grapples with the bleaker reality of enormous debt, a tiny apartment, and ever-dwindling hope that she and her husband Jacob will have a family of their own. When socialite Evelyn Elliot charges into Nora's life, the women spark an immediate connection, and Nora is jettisoned...
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
With my eyes closed and Alex's core friends all around me, it was like I'd become my big sister, or something just as good. And so who cared if they were calling it Alex's party? One thing I knew: it would be remembered as mine.
Alex has it all—brains, beauty, popularity, and a dangerously hot boyfriend. Her little sister Thea wants it all, and she's stepped up her game to get it. Even if it means spinning the truth to win the attention...
Alex has it all—brains, beauty, popularity, and a dangerously hot boyfriend. Her little sister Thea wants it all, and she's stepped up her game to get it. Even if it means spinning the truth to win the attention...
Author
Series
The Oodlethunks volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
133 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Oona finds a giant egg and brings it back to West Wog to care for it, and see what hatches--but others in the cave want to claim her egg, particularly the nasty kid Bruce Brute, and when the baby stegosaurus hatches it will have to choose who it wants to live with.
Author
Series
The Oodlethunks volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
138p. 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Oona's pet stegosaurus Stacy grows bigger and bigger, Oona visits the mean witch, Old Brouhaha, to find a way to shrink Stacy.