Books with title Kaleidoscope

Will Lyza’s 1968 summer mystery lead to . . . pirate treasure?When Lyza helps her dad clean out her late grandfather’s house, a mysterious surprise brightens the sad task. In Gramps’s dusty attic, Lyza discovers three maps, carefully folded and stacked, bound by a single rubber band. On top, an envelope says “For Lyza ONLY.” What could this possibly be? It takes the help of her two best friends, Malcolm and Carolann, to figure out that the maps reveal three possible spots in their own New Jersey town where Captain Kidd (the Captain Kidd, seventeenth-century pirate) may have buried a treasure. Can three thirteen-year-olds actually conduct a secret treasure hunt? And what will they find? In a tale inspired by a true story of buried treasure, Jen Bryant weaves an emotional and suspenseful novel in poems, all set against the backdrop of the Vietnam War during a pivotal year in U.S. history.

Kaleidoscope is a fictional autobiography of a high school girl, Jillian, who is battling a newfound love of a boy, Matthew. This book outlines Jillian’s struggles through stories of her life and friends. Dealing with finding herself and deciding of her love for Matt, Jillian fights through her memories to reveal her own maturity. Being a high school student herself, the author, Jillian, easily relates to her audience. She displays her own faults as well as learning how to deal with others. Kaleidoscope is a good “self discovery” book for teenagers who are trying to find themselves, or just want an easy read.

What if your reflection was a lie? Fresh out of treatment for her eating disorder, seventeen-year-old Ariel uses her journal to recount the perilous days before Hurricane Irma made landfall in Florida. The days she writes about are fragmented images of her past, like the beads at the bottom of a kaleidoscope that make a colorful picture--or a dizzying nightmare. As Ariel recalls those days, her eating disorder causes her to teeter on the edge of recovery and relapse . . . and she's unsure of which side she'd like to fall. Ariel recalls the love, fear, and rejection that were packed into the days before Irma arrived. As she writes, the nagging voice of her eating disorder taunts her, tempting her to view herself through its distorted lens again. She's not sure she's strong enough to fight it this time around. She's not sure if she wants to. But if Ariel continues to write the events in her past--the first death of her disorder--then maybe she can rediscover a strength she had lost in the process. And shatter the distorted lenses once and for all. *Note: This is a fictional narrative about a girl struggling with eating disorder recovery written by an author who's been in recovery for 11+ years.

A love story through dimensionsIn universe 56, Emma DeNoire and James Scott make a promise to be together. But they just can't seem to get it right no matter how many parallel universes they're given.Each choice that the seventeen year olds make opens up into another universe, another lifetime where they could get it right—all of which they can remember living through. A gingerbread cookie given at the Winter Dance determines whether or not Emma alienates her two childhood friends; a note that starts a rumor affects the sobriety of James's best friend Mike; and whether or not Emma's ex boyfriend chooses a black SUV or a silver convertible impacts whether James will hate Emma forever.However, the two continue to carefully outline the choices they make, until a fatal one forces them to realize that there are just some things out of their control.