Great expectations [Penguin Classics]by Dickens, Charles 

Paperback(Penguin Books, 2003)

BTSB #: 277161 Temp OS

Dewey: FAges: 14-18   


Genres: General Fiction

Subjects: Philanthropists - Fiction Orphans - Fiction Revenge - Fiction Ex-convicts - Fiction England - Fiction

Summary: When the orphan Pip is taken to the house of Miss Havisham, he meets and falls in love with Estella. Estella is beautiful but cold and Pip decides that he will become rich so that he can marry her. Later he learns that somebody has given him a lot of money, but Pip does not know who this person is.

Mary underwater by Doleski, Shannon 

BTSB Prebound(Amulet Books, 2020)

BTSB #: 284305 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   
AR: 3.6 MG+ F&P: Z

Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Domestic violence - Fiction Ex-convicts - Fiction Friendship - Fiction Submersibles - Fiction Catholic schools - Fiction School stories

Summary: Gaining courage from Joan of Arc, fourteen-year-old Mary Murphy navigates the waters of Chesapeake Bay in a submersible built with her friend, Kip, escaping the home where her violent father has just returned from prison. Includes facts about domestic violence and submersibles.

Summer of bitter and sweet by Ferguson, Jenny 

Publisher Edition - Large Print Hardcover(Thorndike Press, 2023)

BTSB #: 332801 Temp OS

Dewey: FAges: 14-18   


Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Large print books Best friends - Fiction Father-daughter relationship - Fiction Identity (Psychology) - Fiction Ex-convicts - Fiction

Summary: Lou has enough confusion in front of her this summer. She'll be working in her family's ice cream shack with her former best friend, King, who is back in their Canadian prairie town after disappearing three years ago. But when she gets a letter from her biological father, Lou immediately knows she cannot meet him. While King's friendship makes Lou feel safer, when her family's business comes under threat, she soon realizes she can't ignore her father forever. In large print hardcover format.