Pictures of Hollis Woods
Author: Patricia Reilly Giff
In this Newbery Honor Book, a troublesome 12-year-old orphan, staying with an elderly artist who needs her, remembers the only other time she was happy in a foster home, with a family that truly seemed to care about her…..Read More
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A Single Shard
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The Ghost of Fossil Glen
Allie Nichols knows she's being pursued by a ghost. But her friend Karen calls her a liar and doesn't want to hear "stuff like that." It is Allie's old pal… Continue Reading Posted in: Children's Friendship Books, Children's Spine-Chilling Horror, Diaries, Imagination
Pay it Forward
It all started with school project: Think of an idea for world change and put it into action.Whilst this proved a little ambitious for most of his classmates, twelve-year-old Trevor… Continue Reading Posted in: California, Fiction, Utopias
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Shawn McDaniel is an enigma and a miracle except no one knows it, least of all his father. His life is not what it may seem to anyone looking at… Continue Reading Posted in: Juvenile Fiction, People With Disabilities, Young Adult Fiction
Shiloh
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