Grappling with complicated feelings about her parents' divorce, Philly Mason finds her life further complicated by the arrival of Janey, a retarded young woman who comes to live with Philly, her mother, and her brother, Buster. Jr Lib Guild....
Hoping to find acceptance in a new school despite her wheelchair, Maggie is frustrated when a series of fire alarms and the school's lack of a ramp makes it look like she will have to stay home until one can be built. Original....
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Twelve-year-old J.J. is pulled in two directions--to his clarinet, which he inherited from his grandfather and which he loves, and to his family's dairy farm, which is on the verge of collapse. Reprint....
Ellie's family didn't like Grandma Aurelia -- no one had even seen the cranky old woman since she showed up at the funeral for Ellie's mom five years ago. Ellie hadn't given her much thought -- at least not until the estranged woman left her all of H...