The Whispers

The Whispers
Author: Greg Howard
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2019-01-15
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0525517502

A middle grade debut that's a heartrending coming-of-age tale, perfect for fans of Bridge to Terabithia and Counting By 7s. Eleven-year-old Riley believes in the whispers, magical fairies that will grant you wishes if you leave them tributes. Riley has a lot of wishes. He wishes bullies at school would stop picking on him. He wishes Dylan, his 8th grade crush, liked him, and Riley wishes he would stop wetting the bed. But most of all, Riley wishes for his mom to come back home. She disappeared a few months ago, and Riley is determined to crack the case. He even meets with a detective, Frank, to go over his witness statement time and time again. Frustrated with the lack of progress in the investigation, Riley decides to take matters into his own hands. So he goes on a camping trip with his friend Gary to find the whispers and ask them to bring his mom back home. But Riley doesn't realize the trip will shake the foundation of everything that he believes in forever.

Whispers and Wishes

Whispers and Wishes
Author: Heather Long
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 420
Release: 2020-06-05
Genre:
ISBN:

Everything changes. Even the things we didn't ask for. Jake, Archie, Coop, and Ian were my best friends and three of them still are and they're also now my lovers, my boyfriends, and pretty much the anchors keeping me from getting washed away. I've had great moments and I've had horrible ones. One thing is for sure, I'll never forget my senior year.It's the year everything changed. It's the year I found them. I lost one and now he wants me back, but I have no idea how to trust him again.I wish... I wish for a lot of things, but with Halloween right around the corner and the holidays coming, I gotta stay focused on the future even if part of me is still trapped in a night I can't remember.*Please note this is a reverse harem and the author suggests you always read the forward in her books. Contains some bullying elements, mature situations, and is recommended for 17+. This is the fourth in a series and the story will continue through future books.

Whispers and Wishes

Whispers and Wishes
Author: Heather Long
Publisher: Untouchable
Total Pages: 390
Release: 2021-10-26
Genre:
ISBN: 9781956264050

Everything changes. Even the things we didn't ask for. Jake, Archie, Coop, and Ian were my best friends and three of them still are and they're also now my lovers, my boyfriends, and pretty much the anchors keeping me from getting washed away.I've had great moments and I've had horrible ones. One thing is for sure, I'll never forget my senior year.It's the year everything changed.It's the year I found them. I lost one and now he wants me back, but I have no idea how to trust him again.I wish? I wish for a lot of things, but with Halloween right around the corner and the holidays coming, I gotta stay focused on the future even if part of me is still trapped in a night I can't remember.*Please note this is a reverse harem and the author suggests you always read the forward in her books. Contains some bullying elements, mature situations, and is recommended for 17+. This is the fourth in a series and the story will continue through future books.

Whisper to Me

Whisper to Me
Author: Nick Lake
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 547
Release: 2016-05-03
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1619634570

"Raw and lovely, dark and light, heartbreaking and human." - Jennifer Niven, New York Times bestselling author of All the Bright Places Printz winner Nick Lake delivers an emotionally gut-wrenching love story told in reverse--starting with the post-break up apology letter--in this riveting, choices-of-the-heart summer romance. Cassie is writing a letter to the boy whose heart she broke. She's trying to explain why. Why she pushed him away. Why her father got so angry when he saw them together. Why she disappears some nights. Why she won't let herself remember what happened that long-ago night on the boardwalk. Why she fell apart so completely. Desperate for his forgiveness, she's telling the whole story of the summer she nearly lost herself. She's hoping that love-love for your family, love for that person who makes your heart beat faster, and love for yourself-can save both of them after all. Awards for There Will Be Lies A Boston Globe Best YA Book of 2015 A Texas TAYSHAS Pick

Snow Globe Wishes

Snow Globe Wishes
Author: Erin Dealey
Publisher: Sleeping Bear Press
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2019-09-15
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1534146326

As the worst snow storm of the year rolls in, one family hunkers down together in a cozy blanket fort for the night. A little girl makes a wish on a snow globe and, in the morning, the sun rises on a winter wonderland--beckoning all outside. And what if, on this snow-filled day, families shake their busy lives and everyone goes out to play? A lyrical holiday story about wishes and community and snow--lots and lots of snow.

The Buffalo Storm

The Buffalo Storm
Author: Katherine Applegate
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2007
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780618535972

When Hallie and her parents join a wagon train to Oregon and leave her grandmother behind, Hallie must learn to face the storms that frighten her so, as well as other, newer fears, with just her grandmother's quilt to comfort her.

Paper Wishes

Paper Wishes
Author: Lois Sepahban
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2016-01-05
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0374302170

Ten-year-old Manami did not realize how peaceful her family's life on Bainbridge Island was until the day it all changed. It's 1942, after the attack on Pearl Harbor, and Manami and her family are Japanese American, which means that the government says they must leave their home by the sea and join other Japanese Americans at a prison camp in the desert. Manami is sad to go, but even worse is that they are going to have to give her and her grandfather's dog, Yujiin, to a neighbor to take care of. Manami decides to sneak Yujiin under her coat and gets as far as the mainland before she is caught and forced to abandon Yujiin. She and her grandfather are devastated, but Manami clings to the hope that somehow Yujiin will find his way to the camp and make her family whole again. It isn't until she finds a way to let go of her guilt that Manami can reclaim the piece of herself that she left behind and accept all that has happened to her family.