The Fingertips of Duncan Dorfman

The Fingertips of Duncan Dorfman
Author: Meg Wolitzer
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2011-09-20
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1101529474

Friendship, family, and high-stakes Scrabble come together in this compelling novel from a bestselling author Duncan Dorfman, April Blunt, and Nate Saviano don't seem to have much in common. Duncan is trying to manage his newfound ability to "read" with his fingers. April is striving to be accepted by her family of jocks. And Nate is struggling to meet his father's high expectations. But when a Scrabble Tournament brings them together, their stories intertwine. Driven by competition, drama, and just a touch of magic, the story will have readers flying through the pages, anxious to discover who will be the real winners . . .

Belzhar

Belzhar
Author: Meg Wolitzer
Publisher: Dutton Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2015-09-29
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0142426296

Jam Gallahue, fifteen, unable to cope with the loss of her boyfriend Reeve, is sent to a therapeutic boarding school in Vermont, where a journal-writing assignment for an exclusive, mysterious English class transports her to the magical realm of Belzhar, where she and Reeve can be together.

To Night Owl, From Dogfish

To Night Owl, From Dogfish
Author: Meg Wolitzer
Publisher: Hardie Grant Publishing
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2019-02-18
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1743586175

Told almost entirely through emails, this is the exuberant, funny story of two girls who try to get their gay fathers back together. It's a novel about the true meaning of family, written by two exceptional and beloved authors. Avery Bloom is anxious and academic and afraid of the water. Bett Devlin is brash and athletic and loves to surf. The only things they seem to have in common are their age – twelve – and the fact that their dads have fallen in love with each other. Now their dads are sending them to the same sleepaway camp, against their will, so that they can become friends. But when the girls reluctantly grow to like each other and start looking forward to becoming a family, their dads fall out of love. Can Avery and Bett figure out a way to bring their fathers back together now that they can't imagine a life without a stepsister?

The Ten-year Nap

The Ten-year Nap
Author: Meg Wolitzer
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2008
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781594489785

WOLITZER/TEN YEAR NAP

My Darling, My Hamburger

My Darling, My Hamburger
Author: Paul Zindel
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2005-03-29
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0060757361

Four friends, Two couples, One year that will change their lives. Liz and Sean, both beautiful and popular, are madly in love and completely misunderstood by their parents. Their best friends, Maggie and Dennis, are shy and awkward, but willing to take the first tentative steps toward a romance of their own. Yet before either couple can enjoy true happiness, life conspires against them, threatening to destroy their friendships completely.

Morning Star

Morning Star
Author: Judith Plaxton
Publisher: Second Story Press
Total Pages: 219
Release: 2011-09-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1926920457

Flower and her parents are escaped slaves, going north to freedom via the Underground Railroad. Over 150 years later, Felicia is starting grade 8 at a new school in a small town in Ontario that was a terminus for the Underground Railroad. She has to write about her ancestry for a class project, but is afraid her classmates won't want to hear about slavery. Flower and her family eventually reach freedom in Canada, helped and sheltered by many. Felicia discovers that her grandfather was a porter on the railways and this point of family pride helps her face down a bully. Two girls at opposite ends of history.

Millions of Maxes

Millions of Maxes
Author: Meg Wolitzer
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 23
Release: 2022-01-11
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0593324129

Max discovers that uniqueness is more than just a name, in this funny, lively picture book debut by the bestselling author of The Interestings. Max's room has his name all over it--on his blanket and night light and wall. His parents call him The One and Only Max. And so, he is in for a big surprise at the playground one day, when he hears "Max, time to go home!" and two other kids come running. He's not the one and only after all! How many Maxes are in the world?! Millions of Maxes? But when he decides to help one of the other Maxes find her missing toy, he discovers that there are other ways to be special, and that he can appreciate the specialness of his new Max friends just as much as his own. That night he dreams of the future adventures he'll have with all of the Maxes he has yet to meet.

We Are Party People

We Are Party People
Author: Leslie Margolis
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2017-10-03
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0374303916

Leslie Margolis's We Are Party People is sweet, brave, and laugh-out-loud funny, as Pixie Jones learns that stepping out of her comfort zone might not be so scary after all. "I am the opposite of a mermaid and that’s exactly the way I like it." Shy and quiet, Pixie does everything she can to fade into the background. All she wants is to survive middle school without being noticed. Meanwhile, her parents own the best party-planning business in town. They thrive on attention, love being experts in fun, and throw themselves into party personas, dressing as pirates, princes, mermaids, and more. When her mom leaves town indefinitely and her new friend Sophie decides to run for class president, Pixie finds herself way too close to the spotlight. How far is she willing to go to help the people she loves?

The Interestings

The Interestings
Author: Meg Wolitzer
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 484
Release: 2013-08-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1448162262

Discover the generation-defining American novel from the author of The Wife Whatever became of the most talented people you once knew? On a warm summer night in 1974, six teenagers play at being cool. They smoke pot, drink vodka, share their dreams and vow always to be interesting. Decades later, aspiring actress Jules has resigned herself to a more practical occupation; Cathy has stopped dancing; Jonah has laid down his guitar and Goodman has disappeared. Only Ethan and Ash, now married, have remained true to their adolescent dreams and have become shockingly successful too. As the group’s fortunes tilt precipitously, their friendships are put under the ultimate strain. ‘A truly great novel about friendship, and how it deepens and changes over the years’ David Sedaris, author of Me Talk Pretty One Day