Books with title Libby in the Middle

One day Isabel finds a box in her mother's closet, and inside the box is a photograph of a girl dressed in old-fashioned clothes. Ten-year-old Bel is enchanted to discover that the girl is her great-grandmother, her Bisa Bea, and that she and her great-grandmother look very much alike. Bel convinces her mother to let her borrow the treasured photo. To keep her Bisa Bea close to her heart, she tucks the picture inside the waistband of her shorts but she soon discovers, the picture is missing.Suddenly it is as if Bisa Bea is alive inside her, telling Bel what life was like when she was a girl but then Bisa Bea starts to tell her how to behave. Bel learns that her great-grandmother lived at a time where girls were expected to be proper young ladies.She argues with her grandmother and another voice comes into her head, encouraging her to stand up for herself and telling her what it means to be a modern girl.

Lilly and her friends have a substitute teacher named Mr. Wulf who takes them on an overnight field trip. Lilly jokes that he looks like a werewolf, and is surprised when her friends take her seriously. On the bus, her best friend Minna won't sit with her. When they have to go on a moonlit walk, no one wants to go because they're afraid of their teacher. When Mr. Wulf finally hears about the rumour, his feelings are hurt, badly. Lilly has to do her best to make things better. Lilly in the Middle is a touching story about a thoughtless rumour that gets out of control, and about one girl's efforts to overcome it.

Six Mile Valley is a town in a less than perfect situation. Poverty and crime is reality, and Dora is devastated by the possibility of not being accepted into secondary schooling due to lack of funding. Nevertheless, the family of peculiar woman who live on Shelling Hill provide an adequate distraction for Dora as she studies their behaviour closely, out of interest. While most people stop believing in magic and anything related during their childhood, Dora holds onto the idea of the connection between magic and reality well into her teenage years.Dora is a young aspiring journalist whom, at just 14 years of age, is still learning what life really is. As her hometown struggles, Dora is absorbed in her daydreams. She maintains a daily fascination for what the seven women in the Terrydene family on Shelling Hill are doing to occupy their long days spent indoors. Without any proof, Dora still genuinely believes that the Terrydene family are true witches. The situation in Six Mile Valley was dire enough before the introduction of the unthinkable. At last, Dora learns the truth about heaven and hell and her world in between it. Unfortunately, she learns this in the most tragic of ways.

At 16, Star's life has changed drastically now that she's become the mother of a baby boy. To learn what's best for him, Star's taking parenting classes at a center for teen moms. But she's having trouble keeping up with the baby's demands, and her grandmother is threatening to force her to put the baby up for adoption. To top it off, Wilson, a popular star athlete, is in denial about being the father. He doesn't know about Star's terrible, painful secrets. But as Wilson's friends and family push him to accept his responsibility, he learns the truth about Star's disturbing past, facts that change his life forever. Told from Star's and Wilson's points-of-view, Star in the Middle reveals a compelling snap-shot of the difficult lives of teenage parents.

Fifteen-year-old Skye, the middle child, finds herself wishing for a new life-one that doesn't include daily harassment from the in-crowd at Highland Creek High School. Skye barely survived freshman year. She only did because her best friend, Goose, a semi-popular fellow band geek, was by her side. But when their sophomore year starts, Goose ditches Skye for a new crowd. Cast into a lone existence at Highland Creek, Skye wishes for a touch of extraordinary that everyone, except her, seems to have. Her older sister, Sara Elizabeth, has it. Goose is getting close to it, and even her little sister is wildly popular in junior high. Skye would do almost anything to cast off her ordinary life...but at what price? When her older sister goes missing without a trace, Skye gets her wish...but it's not exactly what she had in mind. And when she questions Bryan, the senior class renegade and also the last person to be seen with her sister, she finds something she never quite expected.