While coping with her father's impending bankruptcy, her aunt's sleazy fiance, and an annoying member of a self-actualization group, thirteen-year-old Molly Smelter longs to leave Schenectady and start over elsewhere....
After failing to extricate the whereabouts of the Plunderell fortune timid seventeen-year-old Alice Plunderell, young Laurel Bybank, along with Alice, is imprisoned in an abandoned monastery by Alice's tyrannical aunt and uncle, Lord and Lady Stayne...
In this captivating sequel to I Tell a Lie Every So Often, a National Book Award finalist, it is 1849 and Henry Desant is on a mission from frontier St. Louis to revolutionary Paris to rescue his brother, Clayton, from a gang of thieves.
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Drawing the line between what we want and what other people want for usA woman with a forehead full of acne scars and a New York edge to her voice crosses the courthouse floor with her hand out. "Erika? I'm your lawyer. Call me Jean. Can we talk?" Yo...