Jo Knowles

Jumping Off Swings

1 - Jumping Off Swings (Aug-2009)
2 - Living with Jackie Chan (Sep-2013)

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  Someone's Gonna End Up Crying
  

  • Jun-2025
  • / General Fiction

  In this authentic and heartfelt middle-grade novel, Maple uses her artwork to help sort through sibling relationships, school drama, and her parents’ increasingly fraught marriage. Ten-year-old Maple can’t wait for summer: No more math! Adventure...

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  Meant to Be
  

  • Apr-2022
  • / General Fiction

  In a companion to Where the Heart Is, the lens turns to younger sister Ivy as she fields the joys and pitfalls of new friendship, hones her passion for baking, and resists the idea of change. Ivy loves living in Applewood Heights. The family’s apar...

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  Ear Worm!
  

  • Jan-2022
  • / General Fiction

  A musical treat for the ear and eye, this antic tale of a worm on a mission doubles as a cozy bedtime book. One summer day, as Little Worm heads out to play, he discovers he has a song stuck in his head. ìWhatís that youíre singing?î Owl asks, bu...

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  Where the Heart Is
  

  • Apr-2019
  • / General Fiction

  If home is where the heart is, what would happen if you lost it? Compassion and humor infuse the story of a family caught in financial crisis and a girl struggling to form her own identity. It’s the first day of summer and Rachel's thirteenth birth...

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  Still a Work in Progress
  

  • Aug-2016
  • / Fantasy

  In a return to middle-grade fiction, master of perspectives Jo Knowles depicts a younger sibling struggling to maintain his everyday life while coping with his sister's secret struggle. Noah is just trying to make it through seventh grade. The gir...

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  Read Between the Lines
  

  • Mar-2015
  • / General Fiction

  Does anyone ever see us for who we really are? Jo Knowles’s revelatory novel of interlocking stories peers behind the scrim as it follows nine teens and one teacher through a seemingly ordinary day. Thanks to a bully in gym class, unpopular Nate...

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  Living with Jackie Chan
  

  • Sep-2013
  • / General Fiction

  Jumping Off Swings - 2
  

  After fathering a baby, a teenager moves in with his karate-loving uncle and tries to come to terms with his guilt -- and find a way to forgive. This isn’t how Josh expected to spend senior year. He thought he’d be hanging out with his best ...

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  See You at Harry's
  

  • May-2012
  • / General Fiction

  Starting middle school brings all the usual challenges - until the unthinkable happens, and Fern and her family must find a way to heal. Twelve-year-old Fern feels invisible. Her dad is always busy planning how to increase traffic to the family busi...

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  Pearl
  

  • Jul-2011
  • / General Fiction

  Bean (née Pearl) and Henry, misfits and best friends, have the strangest mothers in town. Henry's mom Sally never leaves the house. Bean's mom Lexie, if she is home, is likely nursing a hangover or venting to her friend Claire about Bean's beloved gr...

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  Jumping Off Swings
  

  • Aug-2009
  • / General Fiction

  Jumping Off Swings - 1
  

  Ellie remembers how the boys kissed her. Touched her. How they begged for more. And when she gave it to them, she felt loved. For a while anyway. So when Josh, an eager virgin with a troubled home life, leads her from a party to the backseat of his v...

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  Lessons from a Dead Girl
  

  • Oct-2007
  • / General Fiction

  An unflinching story of a troubled friendship -- and one girl's struggle to come to terms with secrets and shame and find her own power to heal. Leah Greene is dead. For Laine, knowing what really happened and the awful feeling that she is, in som...

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