When Tracy Stewart and her family move to a tiny town, her parents reveal a shocking secret--that Tracy is adopted and that she bears a strong resemblance to her biological mother, who left the same town just before Tracy's birth....
Gr 5-8-- Despite convenient plot twists, unlikely circumstances, and surprising self-confidence shown by the homeless main characters, Corcoran infuses warmth into the conclusion of her novel. When Stevie's father, a bankrupt Iowa farmer, takes a job...
In Boston during the early days of the Great Depression, Annah's affluent lifestyle comes to an abrupt end when her father loses his banking job and Annah is sent to live with her aunt on a New Hampshire island where she meets a destitute but spunky ...
A Summer Like No Other Ellis has a perfect summer planned. Horseback riding and working at a stable where world champion horses are trained is like a dream come true. But before the summer even begins, Ellis's mother comes up with one of her brigh...
Forced to move to a new town just as she thinks she is finally starting to fit in with other young people, twelve-year-old Kelly finds her feeling of alienation slowly fading as she builds relationships with new family and friends...
Twelve year old "Kit" Esterly enjoys writing stories and enters a competitive writing contest at school. Unfortunately, her world is split apart when Kit learns her mother is seriously ill. During the writing contestand her mother's illness, Katherin...
A junior counselor at a summer camp in the Montana mountains, seventeen-year-old Julie Horton is puzzled by the behavior of fellow counselor Mark after the strange disappearance of one of her young campers....
Although she often thinks about her family, home, and friends in Montana, Abbie Fiske is fascinated by the fast-paced life in Boston and New York City and falls madly in love with Congressman Philip Blanton...
Because of serious troubles in her parents' marriage, Rachel is sent to Palm Springs to live with her grandparents and, through two children disliked by their stepfather, she comes to understand the importance people have for one another...
A Yankee Girl In The Civil War South When spirited Julia Stewart left her quiet Massachusetts farm to join the union army as nurse, she didn't imagine she'd soon be sleeping in the woods and using all her wits to survive in hostile territ...
Creating a Business You'll Love draws on essays (many of them original) from distinguished business leaders who have started businesses, invested in new businesses, participated in the governance of new businesses, and/or taken over existing business...
Phyllis decides to stay alone at the lake cabin while her father recuperates in the hospital following his accident. But she soon becomes suspicious of her neighbor's activities when she hears helicopters landing at night....
Lee spends the summer in her new home in Montana writing, drawing, and managing and protecting her own wolves, helping her in her struggle to feel adequate in relation to her younger sister, a pretty actress. Jr Lib Guild....