Almost paradise by Shofner, Corabel 

Audio Book(Findaway World, LLC, 2017)

BTSB #: P03781 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   


Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Mother-daughter relationship - Fiction Single-parent families - Fiction Aunts - Fiction Nuns - Fiction Prisoners - Fiction Cancer - Fiction

Summary: When twelve-year-old Ruby's mother goes to jail, Ruby finds her Aunt Eleanor, an ornery nun with some dark secrets, who Ruby hopes will help free her mother.

Bernice Buttman, model citizen by Lenz, Niki 

BTSB Prebound(Random House, 2019)

BTSB #: 562980 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 5.1 MG RC: 4.7 3-5 Lexile: 780 F&P: X

Genres: Humorous Fiction Family Life

Subjects: Conduct of life - Fiction Bullies - Fiction Nuns - Fiction Aunts - Fiction Moving - Fiction Humorous fiction

Summary: Bernice Buttman is tired of being labeled a "bully," so when her mom leaves her with her aunt, who is a nun, Bernice decides to mend her ways and become a model citizen.

Bernice Buttman, model citizen by Lenz, Niki 

BTSB Prebound(Random House, 2019)

BTSB #: 562981 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 5.1 MG RC: 4.7 3-5 Lexile: 780 F&P: X

Genres:

Subjects: Conduct of life - Fiction Bullies - Fiction Nuns - Fiction Aunts - Fiction Moving - Fiction Humorous fiction

Summary: Bernice Buttman is tired of being labeled a "bully," so when her mom leaves her with her aunt, who is a nun, Bernice decides to mend her ways and become a model citizen.

Bernice Buttman, model citizen by Lenz, Niki 

Paperback(Yearling, 2021)

BTSB #: 562985 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 5.1 MG RC: 4.7 3-5 Lexile: 780 F&P: X

Genres: Humorous Fiction Family Life

Subjects: Conduct of life - Fiction Bullies - Fiction Nuns - Fiction Aunts - Fiction Moving - Fiction Humorous fiction

Summary: Bernice Buttman is tired of being labeled a "bully," so when her mom leaves her with her aunt, who is a nun, Bernice decides to mend her ways and become a model citizen.

Queen of the sea by Meconis, Dylan 

Paperback(Walker, 2020)

BTSB #: 634371 Available

Dewey: 741.5/NAges: 10-14   
AR: 4.7 MG RC: 5.4 6-8 Lexile: 710 GN F&P: V

Genres:

Subjects: Queens - Fiction Nuns - Fiction Historical fiction Exile - Fiction Graphic novels

Summary: When her sister seizes the throne, Queen Eleanor of Albion is banished to a tiny island off the coast of her kingdom, where the nuns of the convent live. But the island is also home to Margaret, a mysterious young orphan girl whose life is upturned when the cold, regal stranger arrives. As Margaret grows closer to Eleanor, she grapples with the island's sinister true purpose and her own past. A graphic novel loosely based on the exile of Queen Elizabeth I by her sister, Queen Mary.

R is for rebel by Coats, J. Anderson 

BTSB Prebound(Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2018)

BTSB #: 223650 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   
AR: 5.9 MG Lexile: 900

Genres:

Subjects: Conduct of life - Fiction Reformatories - Fiction School stories Government, Resistance to - Fiction Nuns - Fiction

Summary: After her parents are jailed for a failed resistance movement, Malley is sent to reform school, where she plans some resistance of her own.

Revenge of the green banana by Murphy, Jim 

BTSB Prebound(Clarion, 2017)

BTSB #: 664956 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-12   
AR: 5.8 MG RC: 5.7 6-8 Lexile: 890

Genres: Humorous Fiction

Subjects: Catholic schools - Fiction School stories Nuns - Fiction Friendship - Fiction Human behavior - Fiction Practical jokes - Fiction Humorous fiction

Summary: Jimmy Murphy starts sixth grade determined to be a better student and impress the beautiful Kathy Guenther, but Sister Angelica has him and his friends pegged as troublemakers and they may just prove her right.

Year we sailed the sun by Nelson, Theresa 

BTSB Prebound(Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2015)

BTSB #: 670656 Available

Dewey: FAges: 9-12   
AR: 5.6 MG RC: 7.3 6-8 Lexile: 940

Genres: General Fiction

Subjects: Orphanages - Fiction Orphans - Fiction Nuns - Fiction Behavior - Fiction Siblings - Fiction Gangsters - Fiction St. Louis (Mo.) - History|y20th century - Fiction

Summary: In St. Louis, Missouri, in 1911, orphaned eleven-year-old Julia Delaney rails against countless disappointments and the nun's strict rules at the House of Mercy, especially after her sister Mary turns fourteen and must leave, but she, her family, and best friend get tangled up with a gangster and a decade-old mystery.