45 Pounds (more or less) by K. A. Barson
When Ann decides that she is going to lose 45 pounds in time for her
aunt's wedding, she discovers that what she looks like is not all that
matters.
Somebody, Please Tell Me Who I Am by Harry Mazer
Wounded in Iraq while his Army unit is on convoy and treated for many
months for traumatic brain injury, the first person Ben remembers from
his earlier life is his autistic brother.
Delilah Dirk and the Turkish Lieutenant by Tony Cliff
Join troublemaker Delilah Dirk for a headlong plunge into
adventure!Lovable ne'er-do-well Delilah Dirk is an Indiana Jones for the
19th century. She has traveled to Japan, Indonesia, France, and even
the New World. Using the skills she's picked up on the way, Delilah's
adventures continue as she plots to rob a rich and corrupt Sultan in
Constantinople. With the aid of her flying boat and her newfound friend,
Selim, she evades the Sultan's guards, leaves angry pirates in the
dust, and fights her way through the countryside.
The How-To Handbook by Martin Oliver
Whether you plan on spending your life playing sports, serving clients,
running businesses, or flying to the moon, there are certain things that
everyone just has to know how to do: unjamming a jar, for instance,
fixing a flat tire, and removing a particularly embarrassing stain. They
may seem simple in retrospect, but you don’t have to turn all your
laundry pink more than once before you learn that it’s best just to get
things right the first time. The How-To Handbook packs over 50 essential life skills into one handy reference book.
Out of the Easy by Ruta Sepetys
Josie, the seventeen-year-old daughter of a French Quarter prostitute,
is striving to escape 1950 New Orleans and enroll at prestigious Smith
College when she becomes entangled in a murder investigation.
