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Charming, clever, and heart-warming. Carol Lynch Williams' novelization of the motion picture Once I Was a Beehive is sure to be a family favorite.
Sixteen year old Lane Speer spends her family vacations camping in the mountains, taking the memor...
After her grampa dies, the last place Libby expects to see him is sitting on the edge of her bed. But that's what happens the night after the funeral. Even more surprising is that Grampa has three important things to tell her: first, that she isn'...
From PEN Award-winning author Carol Lynch Williams comes an eerie and atmospheric coming-of-age tale about a girl who can talk to the dead -- even if she would rather not. Evie Messenger knows that her family is different from other families. But ...
For as long as she can remember, Sarah’s family life has revolved around her twin sister, Annie -- the pretty one, the social one, the girl who can do anything. The person everyone seems to wish Sarah -- with her crippling shyness -- could simply b...
In trying to reunite with her mother, Winston discovers the many meanings of family and finds friendship in an unexpected place in this coming-of-age novel from the author of Waiting, which Kirkus Reviews, in a starred review, called “exceptionalâ€...
Thirteen-year-old Lacey wakes to a beautiful summer morning excited to begin her new job at the library, just as her mother is supposed to start work at the grocery store. Lacey hopes that her mother's ghosts have finally been laid to rest; after all...
Carol Lynch Willams' The Chosen One is a dazzling novel about a young teenager's rebellion from the polygamist cult that would have her become the seventh wife to her 60-year-old uncle Thirteen-year-old Kyra has grown up in an isolated community ...
Now that Laura is 12 years old, she realizes that everything about her mother is totally embarrassing. Like the way she yodels at the top of her lungs while she works (okay, she calls it singing). And plays really old music so loud the neighbors can ...
For Beauty McElwrath, the first day of sixth grade in small-town Green River, Florida, proves to be exactly the catastrophe she expected.
Acutely shy and raised in a non-traditional family of strong-minded single women, Beauty is sure she’s doom...
Suddenly a sound like thunder startles Laurel out of her daydreaming and horsemen plunge into the clearing around Jaco ] Haun's mill. Laurel runs into the woods with her brother, and into a series of adventures that prove she is braver than she ever ...
Fifteen-vear-old Sage Olivar is writing a Romance novel-with a capital "R." The book's heroine, Angelica, is Sage's ideal
wornan-sensitive, strong, and sexy. There is only one small problem with Sage's novel-it's absolutely dreadful!
Enter ...
Fourteen-year-old Carolina has been through a terrible loss. As she struggles to speak openly to her new boyfriend and to relate to her distant, sad mother, the reader slowly realizes the nature of their shared tragedy. Through letters to her sister ...
Honey lives in Heaven, Florida, where her grandfather is a popular preacher who believes in being saved, but when Honey becomes friends with Christmas and Easter, daughters of a movie star, trouble ensues, and Honey realizes maybe it's Christmas who ...
Sixth grade is over and Elyse Donaldson is ready for a perfect summer. She's going to read her favorite books and write her first novel. She's even determined to get along with her older sister, Jordyn. But her plans quickly unravel.
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In 1846, when religious persecution forces her family to leave Illinois and flee West to find a new home, twelve-year-old Catherine finds herself questioning her parents' Mormon faith, until she discovers a bundle of old letters written by her mother...
While living in Nauvoo, Illinois, in the mid-nineteenth century and enjoying the friendship of the Mormon prophet Joseph Smith, Anna struggles to make her family see the importance of her gift for drawing....
Caity and her sister Kara get along well, considering their home life. By sticking together and keeping out of their mother's way, they eat, go to school, and protect each other from their mother's terrifying and seemingly random verbal and physical ...