Books with title Evan 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.

Elisa Michaels is just trying to help... Elisa has a new house, she's starting a new year in school, and she has a new baby brother. She's in the middle of her family now, and, just like in a sandwich, Elisa knows the middle is best. Elisa wants to help her older brother, Russell, catch up on his homework and give his fish a bubble bath. Why is everyone upset with her? She was just trying to help! At least she can help her baby brother, Marshall. That is, if she's willing to give him the most precious gift of all.

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.

WINNER: 2016 SAN FRANCISCO BOOK FESTIVAL--GAY FICTIONDuke Donovan’s despot and dictator clients pay him handsomely for the information he provides through psychic and tarot card readings. When not helping others to overthrow the world, or walking his golden retriever, Duke picks up stray men off the New York City streets—artists, musicians, writers, and actors, usually—and nudges their careers forward while sharing his bed with them. His latest find, Broadway conductor, Sam Teak, begins mysteriously poisoning Duke’s butler, Malcolm. Duke has secrets, too, and there’s a ghost haunting him because of them.

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.