The Other Side of Blue

Water Balloon

Simon's Dream (Fog Mound, The)

Mia's Life: Best Friends for Never

Slick

The Exile of Gigi Lane

Hide and Seeker

Attack of the Beastly Baby-Sitter (Give Yourself Goosebumps, No 18)

"Full of detail about Army life, Patterson's elegant prose brings readers deep inside Jess's conflicted point of view." —Publishers Weekly Ninth grader Jess Westmark had the best of intentions when she started Operation Oleander to raise money for a girls' orphanage in Kabul. She named her charity for the flower that grows both in her Florida hometown and in Afghanistan, where her father is deployed. But on one of her father's trips to deliver supplies to the orphans, a car bomb explodes nearby and her father is gravely injured. Worse, her best friend's mother and some of the children are killed. Is this all Jess's fault?

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Audrey Vernick, 2011

Simon's Dream (Fog Mound, The)

Susan Schade, 2008

Mia's Life: Best Friends for Never

Stephanie Yue, Mia Fizz, Lidia Fernández Abril, 2022

Slick

M.M. Vaughan, 2019

The Exile of Gigi Lane

Adrienne Maria Vrettos, 2010

Hide and Seeker

Daka Hermon, 2020

Attack of the Beastly Baby-Sitter (Give Yourself Goosebumps, No 18)

R.L. Stine, 1997