The River Between Us

The River Between Us by Richard Peck
During the early days of the Civil War, the Pruitt family takes in two mysterious young ladies who have fled New Orleans to come north to Illinois.

All Rivers Flow to the Sea

All Rivers Flow to the Sea by Alison McGhee
After a car accident in the Adirondacks leaves her older sister Ivy brain-dead, seventeen-year-old Rose struggles with her grief and guilt as she slowly learns to let her sister go.

Winter Rose

Winter Rose by Patricia A. McKillip

Teenage Rois Melior and her older sister, Laurel, fall in love the mysterious Corbet Lynn. Corbet has returned to his ancestral home (now a ruin) in their small town, despite the curse laid upon him by his vengeful grandfather. Rois becomes obsessed with Corbet's secret past--and with the curse that will forever haunt him.

Black Box

Black Box by Julie Schumacher
When her sixteen-year-old sister is hospitalized for depression and her parents want to keep it a secret, fourteen-year-old Elena tries to cope with her own anxiety and feelings of guilt that she is determined to conceal from outsiders.

Dingo

Dingo by Charles de Lint
Seventeen-year-old Miguel Schreiber and a long-term enemy are drawn into a strange dream world when they fall in love with shapeshifting sisters from Australia--twins hiding from a cursed ancestor who can only be freed with the girls' cooperation.

Chains

Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson
After being sold to a cruel couple in New York City, a slave named Isabel spies for the rebels during the Revolutionary War.

The Sisters Grimm: The Fairy Tale Detectives

The Sisters Grimm: The Fairy Tale Detectives by Michael Buckley, illustrated by Peter Ferguson

For Sabrina and Daphne Grimm, life hasn't been a fairy tale. Orphans Sabrina and Daphne Grimm are sent to live with an eccentric grandmother that they have always believed to be dead. Books in this series: Book 1. The Sisters Grimm : The Fairy Tale Detectives -- Book 2. The Sisters Grimm : The Unusual Suspects -- Book 3. The Sisters Grimm : The Problem Child -- Book 4. The Sisters Grimm : Once Upon a Crime -- Book 5. The Sisters Grimm : Magic and Other Misdemeanors -- Book 6. The Sisters Grimm : Tales From the Hood.

The Missing Girl

The Missing Girl by Norma Fox Mazer
In Mallory, New York, as five sisters, aged eleven to seventeen, deal with assorted problems, conflicts, fears, and yearnings, a mysterious middle-aged man watches them, fascinated, deciding which one he likes the best.