Lisa Schroeder
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Nora has always dreamed of going to Paris with her grandmother, but when her grandmother dies it seems like Paris is gone with her--until Nora finds three airline tickets in a trunk, and sets out to persuade her mother to use them.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Ever since she could remember, Violet and her mother have been locked away in a tower by the evil Queen Bogdana, who has the kingdom under her spell. The queen has all she wants except one thing-beauty. Violet possesses this beauty. When Violet is summoned by Bogdana to start training to become a real princess, it seems like her life might be taking a turn for the better. But hope quickly fades when Violet's mother is expelled from the castle and...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Hazel doesn't like to make waves. Middle school is hard enough without causing more trouble, right? She's happy just eating lunch in the library with her BFF, writing secret haikus, and taking care of an adorable rescue tortoise. But then Hazel discovers a list that rates the girls at her middle school based on their looks--started by her best friend's older brother. She knows she has to do something, and she can't do it alone. The wave she'll be...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In the beautiful Cartier makeup compact she bought at a flea market, Phoebe finds a letter written during World War II in London, from one sister to another, which contains a "spell" for bringing people closer together, a kind of treasure hunt around London--and Phoebe could really use such a spell, because her older sister, Alice, will be leaving for university soon, and just now she seems to be cutting Phoebe out of her life.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
This delicious paperback bind-up brings together three middle grade novels about young aspiring bakers chasing their sweetest dreams! In It's Raining Cupcakes, twelve-year-old Isabel would love to escape her boring town of Willow, Oregon, and realize her dream of seeing more of the world and showing off her own sweet recipes. But she's stuck at home, helping her mom open a cupcake shop in town. When Isabel finds out about a baking competition that...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Juliet is now an official member of the Starry Beach Club, and loves working with her new friends, Emma and Carmen, to make people's wishes come true. Living away from her dad is still hard, and she misses her best friend from her old town, but she has her friends and the bookmobile, and San Diego feels more like home than ever. But then she learns that the bookmobile is going to have to shut down. The owner of the parking lot wants to start charging...
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Since she ran away from home Emerson has been living on the streets of Portland, relying on her wits and her friend Vince to get by, but as a meteor approaches North America they meet Carl, who tells them he has been granting people's wishes-- so what will they do if this is their last day on Earth, and, more important, what will they do if it is not?
Author
Series
Cupcake novels (Lisa Schroeder) volume 3
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Lily finds herself knee-deep in sugar and sheet music as she tries to juggle her responsibility to her bandmates and give her friend the best Sweet Thirteen party ever"--
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Juliet, her newly separated mother, and her older sister have moved to Mission Beach, where she forms an instant bond with a girl her own age, Emma, even throwing bottles with secret messages into the sea; and then an email arrives, inviting Juliet to join the Starry Night Society, and all she has to do is make someone else's wish come true--but what about her own family, whom she seems to be growing apart from?
10) Keys to the city
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Nearly-thirteen-year-old Melinda Jia Mackay was adopted from China as a baby, and she has always preferred to stay out of the limelight, reading and writing for her own pleasure--but now she has a summer assignment, so with the help of a new friend, Tyler, and a therapy dog named Odie, she reluctantly hits the streets of New York City in search of her "true passion," one which she can share with others.