Books with title Oh, Sister!

An especially great parent buy, this book is full of ideas and talking points for handling the ups and downs of sister-and-brotherhood. Inside there are tips on teasing, tattling, fighting, as well as playing and staying close as a family. "Super sister extras" in this book include photo frames, door hangers, and a "Sibling Constitution" that encourages siblings to agree on their rights and responsibilities as they strive to "create a more perfect relationship and a happier home." And what parent could resist that?

It’s 2031 and Doon and Sleep are living the dream in an urban paradise. Everything is cool and the living is easy.Seriously?Sleep, a ten year old pickpocket and career criminal, and Doon, a seventeen year old mutant, are street kids living lives that are something less than ideal. What with plagues, climate change, Ferals, and poverty, things are definitely not cool and easy.Doon was a professional wall climber, and when her ex-agent, Adama, offers her and Sleep a job, they take it, as they’re broke and the money Adama offers is good. But the job is not only strange, it’s a mystery. The Park of the Ascension’s synthespian has gone missing, everyone is clueless, and Adama, manager of Park of the Ascension, is desperate to get it back.Doon and Sleep start looking. In their search, they cope with sixty story climbing walls, an eccentric mayor of a commune, and a predatory cyborg that will stop at nothing to get the synthespian. They confer with Ferret, the Queen of Cynical and a hacker with a magical touch. Following a trail of vague clues, they eventually find themselves with a gang of kids living in The Stacks, derelict buildings that once housed people trying to escape the plagues.They finally zero in on the Citadel, the home of AI worshipping monks who may be more than they appear. There are dozens of them and they are armed with four pops, flashers, stunners, and other good stuff. But there’s nothing for it, if they want to rescue the synthespian, Doon and Sleep will have to invade the Citadel, despite being outnumbered and outgunned. The battle will be epic, and the odds of actually pulling off the rescue very slim indeed.

Jenny and her best friend are about ready to get back against her big sixteeen-year-old sister, Shari, big time. She has betrayed Jenny. It is Shari’s job to mow the lawn. But she has been pushing her chores off on her twelve-year-old sister lately because Shari is always out on a date. So Jenny and her friend are sneaking up on Shari down in the living room to throw Queen Anne’s lace on her right when she is kissing her new dream beau. The flowers land on her head. Shari starts to sneeze. The girls start to run. But the new boyfriend glares up at them. That is when Jenny freaks. The boyfriend doesn’t look normal. He has a weird light in his eye. His complexion is white and pasty. His nose is a weird shape. He looks at her like a hellion.Has Shari become blind? Can’t she see what she is kissing? What is really going on here? Jenny had better figure it out, or things might get a lot worse than having to mow the lawn on Saturday.Sister is brought to you by Edward Ware Thrillers YA, an imprint of Cheops Books, LLC. If you liked Sister, you will enjoy other young adult thriller novels by Linda Cargill such as Dream, Haunted, Gypsy, Candle, and Bienville.

Marla Altanner, citizen of Elmond, has been shape-shifting since she was a toddler, and morphing into a komodo dragon is no problem for her. But her shape-shifting abilities are worthless compared to Sarai’s magical forces.Sarai, leader of the magical country, has ordered that all people not exhibiting magical abilities by age seven be imprisoned or executed. Marla’s family has been dreading the day her non-magical sister Lily turns seven, but when that inevitable day comes, Lily is sentenced to death and their father is imprisoned. With one night and one chance to save her sister—fleeing the country with magical bounty hunters hot on her tail, Marla flees with her sister into the unknown—The United States of America.Marla may need to upgrade to some bigger scales.

Josey Muller’s regular life—studying with her best friends, planning for the Hollidazzle dance, and gossiping about hot guys—is shaken like a snow globe when her parents drop an A-bomb: she has a sister! Pressured to give up the baby they conceived in high school, her parents are overjoyed to reunite with Audrey. Even Josey’s brothers are cool with it. No longer the only daughter and the "smart one" in the family, Josey struggles to accept her infuriatingly friendly, witty, and talented older sister. But feelings of betrayal and jealousy threaten to boil over when she learns that Audrey is on her way to becoming a psychologist, Josey’s life goal. Just when she’s given up on ever feeling like a sister to this stranger, a new side of Audrey is revealed . . . and their real-life nature versus nurture experiment offers a fresh start for them both.