The Aviary by Kathleen O'Dell

The Aviary by Kathleen O'Dell
Alfred A. Knopf
2011
33p.

In late nineteenth-century Maine, isolated, eleven-year-old Clara Dooley gains a friend and uncovers a magical secret that changes her life when she learns to care for the once-feared birds in the aviary attached to the Glendoveer mansion where she lives.

The Summer Before Boys by Nora Baskin

The Summer Before Boys by Nora Raleigh Baskin
Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers
2011
196p.

Twelve-year-old best friends and relatives, Julia and Eliza are happy to spend the summer together while Julia's mother is serving in the National Guard in Iraq but when they meet a neighborhood boy, their close relationship begins to change.