<P><B><CENTER>Will Windrider<BR> take to the skies?</CENTER></B></P><P>Moon shadow is eight years old when he sails from China to join his father, Windrider, in America. Windrider lives in San Francisco and makes his living doing laundry. Father and son have never met.</P><P>But Moon Shadow grows to ...
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The life of a ten-year-old boy in rural Virginia expands when he becomes friends with a newcomer who subsequently meets an untimely death trying to reach their hideaway, Terabithia, during a storm.
After moving in with her grandmother, Dicey Tillerman begins to realize that her younger brothers and sister will still need a lot of attention from her.
<P>"Did Mama sing every day?" Caleb asks his sister Anna. "Every-single-day," she answers. "Papa too."</P> <P> <awards> Winner, 1986 Newbery Medal<br>1986 Christopher Award<br>1986 Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction for Children<br>1986 Golden Kite Award for Fiction (SCBW)<br>Notable Childr ...
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<H4 ALIGN=CENTER>Blood and Water</H4><P>Sara Louise Bradshaw knows that she should be proud of her beautiful twin Caroline. But how can she? Ever since they were born, Caroline has done nothing but take from Louise: their parents' love, Louise's hopes for an education, even her best -- and only -- ...
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During a summer spent at Rockaway Beach in 1944, Lily's friendship with a young Hungarian refugee causes her to see the war and her own world differently.
Fourteen-year-old Chris, bitterly hating the Yankees for invading his Tennessee mountain home, learns a difficult lesson about the waste of war and the meaning of tolerance and courage when he reports the approach of a Yankee supply troop to the Confederates, only to learn that his brother is probab ...
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As a slag heap, the result of strip mining, creeps closer to his house in the Ohio hills, fifteen-year-old M. C. is torn between trying to get his family away and fighting for the home they love.