1995-1996 South Dakota Prairie Pasque Award1997-1998 Utah Children's Book Award1995-1996 Texas Lone Star Reading List1997-1998 Young Hoosier Book Award Master List (Indiana)1995-1996 Nebraska Golden Sower Young Adult Award Runner-Up1996 Sunshine Stat...
A collection of six stories by the author of
1997 Books for the Teen Age, New York Public Library1999-2000 Volunteer State Book Award Master List (Tennessee)1999-2000 Iowa Children's Choice Awards Master List1999 Sasquatch Reading Award Master List (Washington)1999 Utah Children's Book Award Ma...
2002 Mark Twain Award1999 Society of School Librarians Honor Book AwardPeter's been sent to Resthaven Hospital because his stepfather thinks Peter is emotionally disturbed and wants to harm his younger half-brother, Lincoln. But Peter loves Lincoln, ...
Nelson just wants to play baseball and maybe, one day, realize his dream of pitching. Then his manager is suspended and two players leave the team. On top of that, it seems that the park where the team practices may be haunted....
Josh isn't happy to be starting at a new school. Maybe it's a chance to be somebody -- not so easy for a kid who's been pretty average and is overweight besides. But he is pumped when a cool kid asks hims to play ice hockey....
Nine years ago, a hit-and-run driver killed Casey's mother. Casey swears revenge if she ever finds out the identity of the driver. Complicating her feelings, every year on the anniversary of her mother's death, Casey receives an anonymous envelope fu...
Russell's summer seems doomed. He's stuck in small-town Oregon without anything fun. Then a legend about an old meteorite envelops him and he makes a dangerous trip into the mountains to find the meteorite, rumored to be rare and valuable....
Eleven-year-old Joe Hanada likes playing basketball with his best friend, Ray, writing plays and stories, and thinking about the upcoming Christmas holiday. But his world falls apart when Japanese planes bomb Pearl Harbor. His country goes to war. Th...
2097 is a transformed world. Thirty years earlier, a mysterious plague wiped out 97 percent of the male population, devastating every world system from governments to sports teams, and causing both universal and unimaginable grief. In the face of suc...
Fifteen-year-old Bobby Hastings witnesses an atomic explosion near a top secret New Mexico army base in July of 1945. Terrified, he soon heads off on his bike for home, only to encounter something that rivals the blast for drama. A girl his age st...