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Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In this retelling of the Korean legend The tale of Shim Cheong, sixteen-year-old Mina is swept away to the Spirit Realm, where, assisted by a motley crew of demons, gods, and lesser spirits, she sets out to awaken the sleeping Sea God and save her homeland and family from deadly storms"--OCLC.
4) Matteo
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
When eleven-year-old Matteo literally sprouts leaves and grows bark during one of his baseball games, he digs into his family tree to find out what it all means.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Eleven-year-old Maizy Chen visits her estranged grandparents, who own and run a Chinese restaurant in Last Chance, Minnesota; as her visit lengthens, she makes unexpected discoveries about her family's history and herself"--Provided by publisher.
7) Mercury
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Tara is forced to move in with her cousins after her house burns down. She faces a difficult adjustment while her mother is away trying to earn money. Interwoven with this story is that of Tara's ancestors, who in 1859 were convinced by a mysterious stranger to put all their money into searching their property for gold.
Author
Series
George Brown class clown volume 15
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"George and his classmates are giving reports on their family trees, and their presentations will be broadcast on the local news. George is excited, but when he discovers he's related to the king of Arfendonia--a place no one has ever heard of--he panics. What if he makes a fool of himself on live TV? And even worse, what if his burp decides to make a guest appearance? Then George will be a total royal embarrassment!" --
10) Family recipe
Author
Series
Donut dreams volume 3
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Everything's better with a donut. Molly has always considered her adopted family her real family. She's never had reason to question where she fits until she has to do a report on her family tree for school. Suddenly, she has nothing but questions. If the point of a family tree is to show where she comes from, is it okay to include people that aren't her birth family? Being mixed up with doubt may not be a recipe for success, but when Molly reaches...
Author
Series
Wednesday Wilson volume 2
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Wednesday Wilson is in a major funk, and the only thing that can make this day worse is that funks are contagious...and hers is rubbing off on her brother, Mister. When Wednesday discovers that the true cause of Mister's funk is having to present his family tree at the school assembly, she devises a plan to get Mister a Worry Marble that will fix all his problems. And then a crowd of kids at recess also want Worry Marbles to fix their problems, and...
12) The medusa plot
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Cahills are being kidnapped by a shadowy group known only as the Vespers. Now Amy and Dan have only days to fulfill a bizarre ransom request or their captured friends will start dying. Amy and Dan don't know what the Vespers want or how to stop them. Only one thing is clear. The Vespers are playing to win, and if they get their hands on the Clues ... the world will be their next hostage.
14) Shatterproof
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Vesper One commands Dan and Amy Cahill to steal the Golden Jubilee, one of the world's largest diamonds, but what they do not know is that the Jubilee theft is just a setup and someone is going to die.
Author
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Abby Schoenberg isn't exactly looking forward to the summer before her senior year. She's just broken up with her first boyfriend and her friends are all off in different, exciting directions for the next three months. Abby needs a plan?an adventure of her own. Enter: the letters. They show up one rainy day along with the rest of Abby's recently deceased grandmother's possessions. And these aren't any old letters; they're love letters....