Megan Evans is very happy with her life as a hospital administrator. She likes her prestigious job and enjoys the luxuries her high salary brings her. Still, there are times when she is homesick for the little town in the Ozarks where she grew up, an...
TOUGH TIMES Jens Tucker is just beginning to realize that life isn't as simple as it used to be. It seems like no one in town can afford to keep a farm anymore...not even her own family! When her father slowly starts selling off their things, Jens k...
Three twelve-year-olds escape from the harsh realities of life in their small Missouri town, where the family farm is rapidly disappearing, to their clubhouse in an abandoned carnival trailer named Junglerama...
After moving to a new home, Eliza hopes to make exciting new friends with a cliquish group of girls and is willing to pass a daring test for the honor, but finds a real friendship test in a bookish fellow student....
Angry at having to interview the peevish, sullen Dustin for her sixth-grade writing assignment, Carly begins to discover the reasons behind Dustin's mean disposition, which include his mother's suicide and his father's criminal career....
Quiver, Oklahoma, is a pretty town with an ugly secret. IT'S THE EARLY 1960s AND FRANNIE HAS NEVER GIVEN much thought to the color of her skin -- until an African-American girl named Celeste moves to town. Celeste's father breaks all of Quiver's u...
Tucker was supposed to be the designated driver. But there was something about the beauty of that last true summer night, that made him want to feel out-of-control just once. He drank so much and so quickly that he was instantly sick. That left Trey ...
As she develops a closeness with two cousins during a summer on her grandparents' farm in Illinois, fourteen-year-old Victoria emerges from the shadow of her showy younger sister and has some experiences that change her life forever...