Caela Carter. Bloomsbury, $16.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-59990-958-5
In this introspective first novel, Carter persuasively traces the vacillating emotions and opinions of a distraught pregnant teenager, showing how a 16-year-old mother-to-be finds the support and courage she needs to make necessary choices. Evelyn...
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Caela Carter. Bloomsbury, $17.99 (352p) ISBN 978-1-59990-970-7
In her second book, Carter (Me, Him, Them, and It) sets up an intriguing situation: at the end of junior year, three years after Coley and Sadie stopped being best friends, Sadie invites Coley to a family wedding in Greece. Why? Sadie isn’t saying,...
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Caela Carter. Viking, $17.99 (432p) ISBN 978-0-451-47300-4
Carter (My Best Friend, Maybe) takes readers into the competitive heart of elite gymnastics as five athletes fight for a
coveted spot on the U.S. Olympic team. Set over two days, the story follows the girls’ progress as they risk damaging their...
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Caela Carter. Harper, $16.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-06-238568-0
This nuanced novel highlights the struggle to trust an adoptive family after a traumatic history in foster care. Even as 11-year-old narrator Flora and her younger brother settle into a comfortable life with adoptive parents, they think of...
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Caela Carter. HarperCollins, $16.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-06-267266-7
This poignant novel explores the destructive power of secrets. Thoughtful 12-year-old narrator Alma roils with questions for her avoidant mother, Mercy, about her Portuguese father, whose tomb Alma looks for in local Pittsburgh graveyards, and about
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Caela Carter. Quill Tree, $16.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-06-267270-4
Eleven-year-old Emma, who is biracial (black/white), lives with her 12-year-old cousin Lydia and her mother, both white, while Emma’s single father is in rehab. When Lydia’s divorced mom buys a large dilapidated Brooklyn house as a surprise for her...
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Caela Carter. Quill Tree, $16.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-06-299663-3
Carter (How to Be a Girl in the World) draws from her own experience of undiagnosed ADHD and dyslexia in this moving, authentically told story. Every night, blonde Wisconsin fifth grader Gwendolyn reads the list of 54 takeaways she noted from a...
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Caela Carter. Quill Tree, $18.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-299666-4
With complexity and warmth, Carter (Fifty-Four Things Wrong with Gwendolyn Rogers) centers a seventh grader with big plans for her future, none of which involve growing up. Gifted 11-year-old Piper Franklin, inventor of a new branch of mathematics...
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