Linda Nesbitt

Boston Jane by Jennifer L. Holm.
Schooled in the lessons of etiquette for young ladies of 1854, Miss Jane Peck of Philadelphia finds little use for manners during her long sea voyage to the Pacific Northwest and while living among the American traders and Chinook Indians of Washington Territory.

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.

Here are some book titles that I hope you will enjoy:

The Year of Secret Assignments by Jaclyn Moriarty.
Three female students from Ashbury High write to three male students
from rival Brookfield High as part of a pen pal program, leading to
romance, humiliation, revenge plots, and war between the schools.

The Unlikely Romance of Kate Bjorkman by Louise Plummer.
Seventeen-year-old Kate hopes for romance when her older brother's
friend Richard comes to stay at their house during Christmas vacation.

What Eric Knew : a Sebastian Barth Mystery / by James Howe.
After Eric moves away he sends cryptic notes to Sebastian and David, who attempt to make sense of them by investigating a mysterious death.

The Eyes of the Killer Robot / John Bellairs.
Thirteen-year-old Johnny Dixon is put in jeopardy when he and Professor Childermass try to find a robot made many years ago by an evil wizard.

The Witchmaster's Key / by Franklin W. Dixon.
The Hardy boys' investigation of a museum robbery in England arouses the anger of a coven of black witches.

I have included two other titles by that same author in the list of book titles I am sending you. I hope you find some other books that you will like just as much.

The Time of the Ghost / Diana Wynne Jones.
A ghost, uncertain of her identity, watches the four Melford sisters
hatch a plan to get their parents' attention and slowly becomes aware of the danger from a supernatural power unleashed by the the girls and their friends from the boys boarding school run by the Melfords.

Here are some titles of suspenseful books that I hope you will enjoy as much as you liked The Client by John Grisham:

The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline B. Cooney.
A photograph of a missing girl on a milk carton leads Janie on a search for her real identity.

The Trial by Jen Bryant.
Living in Flemington, New Jersey, in 1935, twelve-year-old Katie Leigh Flynn describes, in a series of poems, the effect on her small town of the ongoing trial of Bruno Hauptmann for the kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh's baby son.

I am sending you a list of books that
include mysteries and those about secrets. I hope you enjoy them all!

Avalon High / Meg Cabot.
Having moved to Annapolis, Maryland, with her medievalist parents,
high school junior Ellie enrolls at Avalon High School where
several students may or may not be reincarnations of King Arthur and his court.

The Face on the Milk Carton / Caroline B. Cooney.
A photograph of a missing girl on a milk carton leads Janie on a search for her real identity.

Since you enjoyed Just Listen by Sarah Dessen, you may enjoy some of her other books such as How to Deal, That Summer, and The Truth About
Forever. You might also enjoy the following:

Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer. (and anything by Joan Bauer)
When sixteen-year-old Hope and the aunt who has raised her move from
Brooklyn to Mulhoney, Wisconsin, to work as waitress and cook in the
Welcome Stairways diner, they become involved with the diner owner's
political campaign to oust the town's corrupt mayor.

Since you enjoyed The Prophet of Yonwood by Jeanne DuPrau, I am sending you some titles that I hope you will like just as much.

Countdown to the Year 1000 / by K.H. McMullan.
Alarmed by a prophecy that the world will end with the arrival of the
year 1000, the students of Dragon Slayers' Academy get some advice from Zack, a boy who has traveled back from 1999.

The Preacher's Boy : a novel / by Terry Pringle.
Relates the experiences of a young man growing up in a small Texas town in the shadow of his strict preacher father.

Since you enjoyed The Morning
Gift by Eva Ibbotson, Ihere is a list of books that I hope you
will enjoy as well.

The Star of Kazan / Eva Ibbotson.

After twelve-year-old Annika, a foundling living in late
nineteenth-century Vienna, inherits a trunk of costume jewelry, a woman
claiming to be her aristocratic mother arrives and takes her to live in
a strangely decrepit mansion in Germany.

The Coffin Quilt : the feud between the Hatfields and the McCoys / Ann
Rinaldi.

Farm Team by Will Weaver.

With his father in jail and his mother working full-time, fourteen-year-old Billy Baggs finds himself in charge of running the family farm in northern Minnesota and having to give up the thing he loves most--baseball.

Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko.

When twelve-year-old Moose moves to Alcatraz Island in 1935, he has to contend with his extraordinary new environment, life with his autistic sister, not to mention the warden's daughter!

The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin.