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1) Blister
Author
Language
English
Description
When a family tragedy occurs, ten-year-old Alyssa "Blister" Reed changes schools, moves to an apartment with her depressed mother while her father gets his own place, and tries to believe her grandmother, who tells her she is "elastic" and can handle it all.
2) Wait for me
Author
Publisher
Tambourine Books
Pub. Date
c1992
Language
English
Description
As she begins fifth grade, Molly feels left behind by her older sisters and brother and neglected by her former best friends.
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
In 1950s Ohio, ninth-grader Franny feels isolated and self-conscious at high school because of her deformed leg and feet, but her irrepressibly high-spirited mother is determined to find shoes for Franny to wear at the school dances.
Author
Publisher
A.A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Confused by all of the males in her life, thirteen-year-old Alyssa "Blister" Reed wants to help when her best friend Jonah's quest for popularity lands him in deep trouble, but his desire to make her his girlfriend gets in the way.
7) Trout and me
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Ben's troubles at school get progressively worse when he starts hanging around Trout, a new boy in his fifth grade class, who is also labeled as learning disabled.