Bird by Chan, Crystal 

BTSB Prebound(Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2014)

BTSB #: 205844 Temp OS

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4.6 MG RC: 4.5 6-8 Lexile: 730

Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Superstition - Fiction Grief - Fiction Family problems - Fiction Selective mutism - Fiction Racially-mixed people - Fiction Iowa - Fiction

Summary: Twelve-year-old Jewel was born on the day her brother Bird died and lives in a house of silence and secrets, but a new boy in her Iowa town may help find the answers Jewel wants despite her Jamaican grandfather's warning that he is a "duppy," a malevolent spirit.

Flinkwater factor by Hautman, Pete 

BTSB Prebound New title, awaiting publication or binding.(Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2015)

BTSB #: 425728 Temp OS

Dewey: FAges: 9-13   
AR: 5.1 MG Lexile: 740

Genres: Science Fiction Humorous Fiction Family Life

Subjects: Science fiction Technology - Fiction Comas - Fiction Family life - Iowa - Fiction Business enterprises - Fiction Humorous fiction Iowa - Fiction

Summary: Thirteen-year-old Ginger investigates a series of weird events taking place in her home town of Flinkwater, Iowa, beginning with people falling into comas while using their computers.

If you're reading this by Reedy, Trent 

BTSB Prebound(Scholastic, 2014)

BTSB #: 742614 Available

Dewey: FAges: 12-16   
AR: 4.6 MG+RC: 4.3 6-8 Lexile: 700

Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Letters - Fiction Family life - Iowa - Fiction Mother-son relationship - Fiction Soldiers - Fiction High schools - Fiction School stories Iowa - Fiction

Summary: For a responsible sixteen-year-old, Michael Wilson has a lot of problems--his father was killed in Afghanistan in 2005, his overworked and overprotective mother will not talk about their situation, and does not want him playing football, and he has suddenly started to receive letters that his father wrote before his death.

If you're reading this by Reedy, Trent 

Audio Book(Findaway World, LLC, 2014)

BTSB #: P02666 Available

Dewey: FAges: 12-16   


Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Letters - Fiction Mother-son relationship - Fiction School stories High schools - Fiction Soldiers - Fiction Family life - Iowa. - Fiction Iowa - Fiction

Summary: For a responsible sixteen-year-old, Michael Wilson has a lot of problems--his father was killed in Afghanistan in 2005, his overworked and overprotective mother will not talk about their situation, and does not want him playing football, and he has suddenly started to receive letters that his father wrote before his death.

Princesses of Iowa by Backes, M. Molly 

Audio Book(Findaway World, LLC, 2012)

BTSB #: P01828 Available

Dewey: FAges: 13-18   


Genres:

Subjects: Conduct of life - Fiction Popularity - Fiction High schools - Fiction Iowa - Fiction

Summary: After being involved in a drunk driving accident in the spring, Paige Sheridan spends the summer in Paris as an au-pair and then returns to her suburban Iowa existence for her senior year of high school, where she begins to wonder if she wants more out of life than being popular, having a handsome boyfriend and all the latest clothes, and being a member of the social elite.

Rotters by Kraus, Daniel 

Audio Book(Findaway World, LLC, 2012)

BTSB #: P01806 Available

Dewey: FAges: 13-18   


Genres:

Subjects: Bullies - Fiction High schools - Fiction Iowa - Fiction

Summary: Sixteen-year-old Joey's life takes a very strange turn when his mother's tragic death forces him to move from Chicago to rural Iowa with the father he has never known, and who is the town pariah.

Ten beautiful things by Griffin, Molly Beth 

BTSB Prebound(Charlesbridge, 2021)

BTSB #: 402116 In Bindery

Dewey: EAges: 5-8   
AR: 3.3 LG F&P: M

Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Moving - Fiction Grandmothers - Fiction Automobile travel - Fiction Loss (Psychology) - Fiction Iowa - Fiction

Summary: Lily is moving into her grandmother's farm in Iowa, and she is sad about all the changes necessary in her life--but on the long drive her grandmother challenges her to find ten beautiful things that they can share together.

Unforgettable Guinevere St. Clair by Makechnie, Amy 

BTSB Prebound(Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2018)

BTSB #: 597557 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4.6 MG RC: 4.2 3-5 Lexile: 670

Genres: Mystery Fiction Family Life

Subjects: Missing persons - Fiction Memory - Fiction Mother-daughter relationship - Fiction Moving - Fiction Farm life - Iowa - Fiction Mystery fiction Iowa - Fiction

Summary: As ten-year-old Gwyn searches for a missing neighbor in her new town in Iowa, she learns much about her mother, who grew up there but has suffered from memory loss since Gwyn was four.