After the death of their father, Fiona, who wants to be a ballerina and to be accepted by her peers, and her younger sister, Wallace, who is an independent free-spirit, rebuild a life for themselves and their artist mother in the now-neglected mansion tha
Since a tragedy she cannot remember, thirteen-year-old Louise has changed her name, given up gymnastics, moved in with her grandparents, and locked her feelings inside but through her friends Reni and Hen and notes from a secret admirer she ...
... Missing from Haymarket Square . Atheneum Books for Young Readers , c2001 . 143pp . Three children in Chicago in 1886 experience the Haymarket Riot in response to exploitative work- ing conditions . Ryan , Pam Muñoz . Esperanza Rising ...
... all costs. Music is her only means of expression, and even that was ... all in a series of protests for animal rights, a suspension from school, and finally the ... Blue Moons at the Wallace Hotel “Stone's prose is poetic, yet grounded in ...
Can one person heal an entire family-all while in the throes of her first big crush? It's a tall order for a small girl, but Felicity is determined to crack the Romeo and Juliet code.
6th-grader Jessie Lou is deeply, madly, passionately in love with Conrad Parker Smith.
Why is it that although Vermont is relatively distant--both geographically and metaphysically--from publishing centers as well as many issues at the heart of current literature, it is also home to...
When Flissy Bathburn's parents first dropped her off in Bottlebay, Maine, she hated everything about it.
Children's Book Review Index
Organized around the theme of "challenges," the 11th edition of "Your Reading" offers annotations of more than 1,200 books for young adults. Intended for teachers, librarians, parents, and students, this...
The best cure for a terrible crush on someone like Windel Watson is a trip across the ocean.