Laura E Williams
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Language
English
Description
I didn't have no hope of seeing the ghost stallion but I looked anyway. 'Course he wasn't really a ghost. He was flesh and bone, with blood running through him so wild that nobody tried to break him.
Since Ma ran off, Pa doesn't pay much attention to Mary Elizabeth. Maybe it's because she doesn't look anything like Pa, with her long black hair and brown eyes. Or, maybe it's because of something that happened a long time ago-before Mary Elizabeth...
Author
Language
English
Description
The riveting tale of an executioner's daughter who struggles to find a different path in life.
Born into the family of an executioner, Lily has always been sheltered by her mother from the horrors of her father's occupation. But, when her ailing mother takes a turn for the worse, Lily is suddenly thrust into the paralyzing role of executioner's assistant. Aside from preparing healing concoctions for the suffering and maimed, Lily must now accompany...
4) Slant
Author
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Lauren, a Korean American adoptee, is best friends with the prettiest - and tallest - girl in the school, Julie, who has an endless amount of confidence. Lauren, on the other hand, has been saving for years to pay for a special eye surgery that will deepen the crease of her eyelids. It's not that she wants to look like everyone else in her suburban Connecticut school; she'd just be happy if kids stopped calling her "slant" and "gook."...
5) Up a Creek
Author
Language
English
Description
A thoughtful coming-of-age novel about a young woman struggling to connect with her eccentric mother.
"I picked up my poster, raising it so everyone could see that if they chopped down these old oak trees, they'd be killing the South as well. I held it high like I meant it, and I walked around Oak Square forty-six more times that day, till all that was left of the sun was a buttery smear in the sky."
Miracle Bott's activism is a constant embarrassment...
6) The can man
Author
Publisher
Lee & Low Books
Pub. Date
©2010.
Language
English
Description
After watching a homeless man collect empty soft drink cans for the redemption money, a young boy decides to collect cans himself to earn money for a skateboard until he has a change of heart.
Author
Series
Mystic lighthouse mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
"An old lighthouse full of secrets...Find the clues...solve the mystery of the dark lighthouse!"--Cover [p.4]
Author
Series
Mystic lighthouse mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
The circus has come to Mystic, Maine. Everyone is excited about a week of rides, flying trapeze artists, and most especially the fabulous white Siberian tiger. But on the day of the tiger's first big performance, it mysteriously disappears. Some people think it may have escaped, but Jen and Zeke know better -- they know it's been stolen. After other things start going terribly wrong at the circus, it's clear that someone is behind it all.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2004, c2000
Language
Español
Description
Jen y Zeke viven con su tía Bee en la pensión del viejo Faro de Mystic. Deben descubrir quién está detrás de todos los accidentes en la Curva del Muerto de la carretera que conduce al viejo faro.
Jen and Zeke live with their aunt Bee in the old Mystic Lighthouse. Dead man's curve has caused many terrible accidents on the road to the old lighthouse but this time it was not an accident.
