Books with title The Trouble With Gravity

The trouble with you is that you have a wild imagination, people tell Tessa. So what if she calls herself Athena, the goddess of wisdom and a woman of the twenty-first century? It's that wild imagination that will make her a good writer. When Tessa finds yellowing pages torn from a book in the bottom of a beat-up trunk in a musty attic filled with cobwebs and junk, she realizes what she's found: directions for magic spells. It was no coincidence that she found the sheets, Tessa decides. She has the power. When Tessa's diary with the magic spells disappears, she panics. What good is a witch without her spells? When she recovers her diary, she even makes a new friend. Again, Tessa believes her life is charmed. Tessa's developing powers hit a roadblock, however, when she casts a spell that she wishes she could take back. Suddenly, everything's changing, and Tessa fears that her secret powers are spinning out of control. When Tessa's reversal spell doesn't work, Tessa must rely on her friends and the power of her family's bond to get her out of this snare. Popular young adult author Ofelia Dumas Lachtman has once again crafted a novel about a precocious young girl and her unlimited curiosity. Tackling topics that teens face, Lachtman's novel is at once a funny story about a young girl's quest to make life interesting and about her learning to accept that sometimes family ties are the strongest magic in the world.

Sam and Hannah know how to have fun together. But then Hannah gets a new doll named Baby.Baby goes everywhere with Hannah. When they play school, Hannah calls on Baby, not Sam. When they play jukebox, Baby gets to sing before Sam.Sam doesn't like Baby at all.In this true-to-life story, a brother and sister find a creative way to deal with jealousy. How can Sam, Hannah, and Baby all have fun together? The solution is simple and clever and surprising.

Max Hunter and Jessie Miller, two sixth-grade girls living near the Cascade mountains, make an unlikely pair: Jessie has leukemia and is bald. Max dresses in thrift-shop grunge and acts tough in school. But their friendship holds life together when everything else falls apart. Then one day Jessie discovers Max’s best-kept secret. Jessie wants to help her, but doing so means risking their friendship and possibly her life.

A sculptor named Pyg carves a statue of a goddess so beautiful, so perfect, that he falls head over heels in love with her. He buys her gifts, tells her stories, and wishes with all his heart she were a real, live woman. The trouble with wishes is . . . sometimes they come true! Diane Stanley's lively prose and vivid illustrations bring this funny and warm tale of misguided love to life as Pyg learns what a true companion is really made of.