Kristine L. Franklin

• Feb-1984
• / General Fiction
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• Nov-1992
• / General Fiction
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Revered by all the inhabitants of his African village, an ancient storyteller is delighted to pass on his wonderful tales to a little boy who, one day, will carry on the traditions as village storyteller....

• Nov-1993
• / Horror
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In a cabin deep in Colorado's mountains, Natalie Kemper finally feels protected from her abusive husband and free to start a relationship with Ben McKee, but Natalie's ex has no intention of giving her up. Original....

• Apr-1994
• / General Fiction
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Ben, a young Navajo boy, tends his family's sheep each summer and, one night, must brave the terrors of the darkness to find a missing lamb. By the author of The Old, Old Man and the Very Little Boy. ...

• Sep-1994
• / General Fiction
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Years after the jungle in her Costa Rica valley is cut down, Don+a1a Marta persuades her husband to give her a piece of land on which she plants trees that she and descendants care for until they grow into a forest and the monkeys that had once lived...

• Mar-1995
• / General Fiction
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Twelve-year-old Trina, who only wants to have a normal life with her friends, faces serious family problems centering around her father's anger and depression and her mother's new pregnancy, two situations that lead to a family tragedy...

• Sep-1996
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1996
• / General Fiction
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In Tsarist Russia, for a commoner to own a wolfhound was to risk prison, or worse. But Pavel's heart has been won by the beautiful dog he rescued from a snowstorm, and he cannot abandon her to the freezing cold. Opulent paintings illustrate this poig...

• Apr-1997
• / General Fiction
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Perry Dubois and his dad live in the north woods. They don't see many people up there and Perry's dad likes it that way. With no one to talk to, Perry spends most of his time hiking in the woods. One day he hears the howl of a wolf and decides to fin...

• May-1997
• / General Fiction
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Imagine seeing the warm, tropical ocean for the very first time, but not being able swim in it. Parent's Choice Award winner Kristine Franklin has created a character who knows exactly what this is like. Little Reina persuades her mother to let her g...

• Aug-2003
• / General Fiction
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With refreshing honesty, heart, and humor - and a compelling young narrator - the author of the award-winning LONE WOLF takes readers back to 1925, and a place where a boy must become a man all too soon.


It’s 1925 in multiethnic Roslyn, ...

• Sep-2006
• / General Fiction
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"Two young people take on more than they can handle in this anguished, reflective story set on the home front during the Vietnam War." -- KIRKUS REVIEWS

A Minnesota Book Award Winner

"Both a sensitive story of friendship and family pr...

• Sep-2007
• / Historical
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It's 1925 in multi-ethnic Roslyn, Washington, where twelve-year-old "Cuss" is able to swear in fourteen languages. Unlike his brothers, who left school to work in the coal mines, Cuss likes reading as much as goofing with friends. But when bootlegger...