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Two estranged childhood friends find themselves on parallel paths to return to the site of the conversion therapy camp that tore them apart."Two conversion therapy survivors go back to the site of their trauma, hoping the truth will set them free . ....
Finalist, Golden Poppy Award for Best Young Adult Fiction!“A timeless and triumphant story of courage in the face of opposition.” -- Foreword Reviews (starred review)It’s 1974. Title IX has passed two years ago, but Louisa’s high school stil...
Twelve-year-old Willa and her twin brothers have survived with their father in the Alaskan wilderness for five years. But Willa knows this can't go on--they must escape.Since their mother died five years ago, Willa, her younger brothers, and her fath...
Scrabbling for ways to believe in themselves and the world, the spirited, heart-driven people who populate these stories find surprising pockets of hope. A woman returns to the Alaskan cabin of her survivalist childhood, full of misgivings and memori...
“She’d told herself, and her husband Tom, that she was coming to rescue Vicky. And she was. She would. She’d been rescuing her sister her entire life. But she’d never done anything remotely this extreme. She knew the region had been evacuated...
At the height of the Cold War, Lucybelle Bledsoe is offered a job seemingly too good to pass up. However, there are risks. Her scientific knowledge and editorial skills are unparalleled, but her personal life might not withstand government scrutiny.<...
We've all heard the adage "finders, keepers." But does that tenet apply when the found object is an abandoned baby on a bus stop bench, and the keepers two affluent gay men who have always wanted a child? Award-winning author Lucy Jane Bledsoe expert...
BJ, a talented college basketball player, lives and breathes the game. For BJ, life means nothing without hoops. Her mother -- an abstract painter -- doesn’t get it. Or at least she pretends she doesn’t. Everything changes when BJ accidentally...
Antarctica is a vortex that draws you back, season after season. The place is so raw and pure, all seal hide and crystalline iceberg. The fishbowl communities at McMurdo Station, South Pole Station, and in the remote field camps intensify relationshi...
Biting the Apple is the story of Eve Glass, once an Olympic sprinter and now a motivational speaker. She's the author of two books, Going the Distance: Endurance for Achievers and If Grace is the Goal. The problem is, her own endurance is waning and ...
When ten-year-old River, who is crazy about basketball, is not chosen to play in the tournament set up in the town of Azalea, Oregon, she decides to organize a team of her own and accepts the help of her older brother....
Gr 7 Up-Bledsoe combines memoir with survival tips and fun facts in this friendly, come-along book about her experiences in Antarctica. She builds a snow shelter and spends the night in it, observes wildlife, visits a number of research stations, ...
Selected as the next child star for an on-line travel video, twelve-year-old Victoria is thrilled about her upcoming expedition to Antarctica, but things don't go as she had expected and she now must make the most of a bad situation that is sure to c...
"I like to tell Liz that I'm her dark side," says Christine, the narrator of critically acclaimed author Lucy Jane Bledsoe's newest novel. And Christine and her sister, Liz, are indeed opposites. Liz, married to her high school sweetheart Mark, ha...
This summer thirteen-year-old Isabel Ramirez, Izzie for short, has plans -- big plans. No more hanging out at the mall; no more lounging at the pool. She's launching her own lawn care business -- MEW. Her first job takes her up to a wealthy neighb...
Erin and Tiffany are snowbound, with only one thought - survival!
For fans of Gary Paulsen's Hatchet, a story of two girls who must rely on their wits to stay alive when they become trapped in the snow. When Erin goes looking for her babysitte...
Hoping that he will get a new bike for his birthday despite poor family finances, Ernie is crushed when he receives a clunky, secondhand bike, but through perseverance and friendship he is able to enter a race....