Jenny is apprehensive, to say the least, about spending an evening with her old great-aunt Abby, but Abby takes her to the attic where trunkfuls of delightful discoveries make Jenny realize how great-aunts got their name....
When her father, a strict fundamentalist preacher, refuses to believe that Lucy is pregnant because she had been raped, Lucy runs away to a nearby resort town, where she encounters Jake, who teaches her to trust and be self-reliant....
Hannah's life is comfortable and predictable--until her mother begins to drink too much. Now it's up to Hannah to show her mother the way to find help, and to pick up the pieces of her family's shattered life....
A sequel to the acclaimed novel
"Annie is about to graduate from high school, an event that intensifies all her memories of another graduation two years before, when her sister was murdered...Present-day events intermingle with Annie's recollections of the past. The shock, denial, ...
After her free-spirited mother dies, Livvy is uprooted from her New York home and sent to Baltimore to live with her mother's old college friend, a woman Livvy has never heard of. Jessie is nothing like Livvy's mother: She's sensible, likes to weave,...
Ellie Martin fiercely resists her new dog's charms
It isn't Ellie's fault, really. She's always wanted a puppy, and now that she's almost nine, finally old enough to get one, Preston is foisted on her. What's more, her parents say that this ...
A book for young readers about realizing one’s passion
Jason Miller’s family is always on the go, and always for the same reason: ball games. Jason spends a lot of time on the sidelines, because he’s not much for playing sports. He s...
Putting a fear to restSara Barker is afraid of dogs. Whenever she sees even a picture of one, she feels clammy and cold all over. So what's Sara to do when she learns that her new next-door neighbor owns two of them? Two young and big dogs, to be spe...
Ben's philosophy of life is that there are two categories of things that happen, the all-right stuff and the not-all-right stuff. Ben has always lived with just his dad, Mitch, which definitely falls into the all-right category. When Mitch meets Case...
A girl discovers she has a half brother Charlotte Flannigan (Tottie, for short) leads a conventional life in a conventional family. Her father is a well-respected pediatrician, her mother a popular newspaper columnist, and her younger brother a talka...
Kiara Jones-Birkell knows a lot about the Birkell side of her family, and nothing about the Joneses. The one time she tried to ask about her mother's relatives, her mom turned a spooky greenish-white color and refused to talk to anyone. So it comes a...