"You respond to the universal pet story before the illustrations show that Cindy is a young woman with Down's syndrome. [This book] is remarkable in telling it as Cindy sees it. Lightburn's realistic pictures in soft-tone colored pencil have the s...
I am a princess in the castle keep.
I am a pirate on the high seas.
I am a cowboy on the lone prairie.
I am a wild girl, alone in my stouthearted tree.
So begins the story of Wild Girl and Gran - a young girl and h...
Twelve-year-old Gemma doesn’t know where to turn. She is being adopted by relatives she didn’t know she had. The foster family she has loved all her life is breaking up. The farm where they’ve lived is being sold. Gemma needs to fix things fast...
Amber makes a bid to catch her father's attention.
Amber lo-o-o-v-e-s Kindergarten -- painting, looking at books, tying her shoes, sliding when it snows. But the one thing she can't control is being picked up ...