Bonnie Shimko

• Sep-2005
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Lizzy McMann, A feisty twelve-year-old, lives with her immature mother and Manny, her father (she thinks) in a fleabag Phoenix hotel. One night, Manny's sudden announcement that he wants a divorce forces mother and daughter to move to upstate New...

• Aug-2006
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Kat is just twelve years old when her mother dies. Suddenly an orphan, she has no choice but to move in with her bitter, wealthy aunt--the same aunt who Kat believes caused her mother's death. And that is just the beginning of Kat's awful eighth-gra...

• Apr-2010
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""All a person needs in life is one true friend."" So says Grandpa Thomas, the only member of Amelia's family who cares about her one bit. That true friend finally arrives when Fancy Nelson, the first Negro kid Amelia has ever seen in person, walk...

• Apr-2013
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You do not kill a man in cold blood and then talk your way out of it. Other than her real name -- Mary-Magdalene Feigenbaum -- fifteen-year-old Maggie’s problems seem ordinary. She has tiffs with her too-critical mother, a crush on her cute psy...