Ruby Sisson Library

"The Kobayashi twins, Megumu and Mitsuru, were named after historical figures, but only Megumu has grown up with a taste for history. So when Mitsuru is in danger of losing his weekends to extra history classes, he convinces his sister to swap clothes with him and ace his tests! After all, how hard can it be for them to play each other? Megumu is considering a career as a manga artist, but as Mitsuru so helpfully points out, her drawing skills could...

"Things between Megumu and Aoi couldn't be better! They're even managing to navigate Aoi's need to stay two feet away from women, and they go on some cute dates. But her twin brother Mitsuru's love life isn't going as smoothly. He's fallen head over heels for Aoi's sister Shino, but it looks like Shino's heart belongs to someone else. Mitsuru's used to fighting, but will he figure out how to fight for love?--

In 1995 Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, on a rare family vacation, seven-year-old Nainoa Flores falls overboard a cruise ship into the Pacific Ocean. When a shiver of sharks appears in the water, everyone fears for the worst. But instead, Noa is gingerly delivered to his mother in the jaws of a shark, marking his story as the stuff of legends. Nainoa's family, struggling amidst the collapse of the sugarcane industry, hails his rescue as a sign of favor from...

The author describes this book as a "book for adults with a dark sense of humor and an appreciation of old-school faerie tales." There are three separate endings to the book : a sweet ending, a horrible one and the true ending.

"Senri's hunt for his twin heats up as a rival criminal group sets Kazuto and the "fire" man's hideout ablaze mere minutes after he and Enan finish their search. As he draws closer and closer to his brother, the danger only seems to increase, and so too does Senri's recklessness. He feels sure Kazuto is reaching out to him, yearning to meet as much as he is, but Kazuto has a long history with the "fire" man-and a terrible burden to bear..."--Provided...

Jack Putnam and his brother Jack are being taken on a month-long vacation with their family to Chowder Bay, Maine. What the boys thought would be a boring vacation becomes a series of adventures.

"Setting out to find the North Pole, an imaginative pig receives a little help from his sister"--

"Tells of a young prince who must risk his life to find his brothers and discover his own happiness as well. It's a story about independence and the open road, camping and traveling, new experiences and all kinds of wonderful stuff like that"--Page 4 of cover.

While helping their grandfather prepare for Greenfield's Winter Festival, the Alden children uncover a mystery surrounding the statue in the town square. The Alden children draw upon their resourcefulness to save the neighborhood firehouse from being torn down, while they also face a series of mysterious incidents connected with it. While sightseeing in San Francisco, the Boxcar children uncover a mystery involving fishing boats and sabotage.

"Ai Shiomi is pushed into attending the Psychic Academy, a place of learning for psychically gifted students. Not only must he live up to his older brother's heroic reputation as 'The Vanquisher of the Dark Overlord,' but he must also deal with the fact that his brother teaches at the academy and insists on embarrassing him, especially in front of all the girls at the school who find him mysteriously attactive now that he has super psychic powers....