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Hello, future me
Par Kim Ventrella. 2020
Eleven-year-old June is a problem-solver. Some people might call her a busybody, but that's okay. Just look at all the…
couples she helped find love! (Grateful newlyweds Marlene and Big Vic have even promised June free hot chocolate for life at their café.)However, when June learns that her parents are getting divorced, she has to face the fact that there are some problems too big even for her. At least, that's what the adults in her life keep saying.But June's convinced there's a way to make her parents fall back in love. While brainstorming ideas on her new secondhand laptop-purchased from a mysterious store in town called The Shop of Last Resort-June gets a strange IM from someone named JuniePie28…someone who claims to be an older version of June messaging her from the future.At first, she assumes it's a prank. But JuniePie28 knows too much about June's life to be a fraud, and future June warns her against interfering with her parents' marriage. But June can't just sit around and watch her parents' marriage dissolve, not when there's a magical shop in town that could be the answer to all her problems! Will June prove her older self wrong and stop the divorce? Or will she have to accept that there are some things she can't control?Just ask!: be different, be brave, be you
Par Rafael López, Sonia Sotomayor. 2019
A home for Mr. Emerson
Par Barbara Kerley, Edwin Fotheringham. 2014
Biography of the New England essayist and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882). Recounts his youth as a city boy who…
longed for the open fields and deep woods of the country, and his later life as a man who treasured books, ideas, family, and community. For grades 2-4 and older readers. 2014Too much money: a novel
Par Dominick Dunne. 2009
Elderly gossip writer Augustus "Gus" Bailey is being sued for millions over a fake story about a politician's missing intern.…
Meanwhile, a billionaire widow is trying to stop the publication of Bailey's tell-all novel concerning the death of her husband. Strong language. 2009Rescue: a novel
Par Anita Shreve. 2010
Young EMT Webster's strong attraction to drunken car-crash victim Sheila quickly leads to dating, pregnancy, marriage, and the birth of…
Rowan. When Sheila's drinking becomes dangerous, Webster sends her away and raises Rowan alone. Now seventeen-year-old Rowan is drinking and Sheila reappears. Strong language and some descriptions of sex. 2010Gertrude is Gertrude is Gertrude is Gertrude
Par Jonah Winter, Calef Brown. 2009
And Gertrude and Alice are Gertrude and Alice. And you are welcome to join them for tea. But beware, for…
there you will find a bear in a chair, just barely scary. And here is a beard with a man attached to it. And then, of course, some words might appear, uninvited , but delighted in spite of their lightbulbs. But, but, but, but - that doesn't make any sense! Yes! In a story inspired by the oh-so-modern groundbreaking writing of Gertrude herself, not a lot makes sense. Even so, the oh-so-popular author Jonah Winter, and the ever-so-popular illustrator Calef Brown, and the most popular poodle of all time, Basket, invite you to enter the whimsical world of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas. For grades 2-4. 2019The hotel years
Par Joseph Roth, Michael Hofmann. 2015
In 64 short essays written between 1919 and 1939, author and journalist Joseph Roth evokes life between the wars in…
his travels through hotels from Germany and Austria to Albania and the Soviet Union. UnratedA mom for Umande
Par Susan Kathleen Hartung, Maria Fasal Faulconer, Maria Faulconer. 2014
Because his own mother is too young to take care of him, Umande, a newborn gorilla, is fed and cuddled…
by human zookeepers until a surrogate mother is found. For grades K-3Drive
Par Nathan Clement. 2008
The skin you live in
Par Michael Tyler, David Lee Csicsko. 2005
A squirrel's story: a true tale
Par Jana Bommersbach, Jeff Yesh. 2013
A squirrel moves into a birdhouse to keep her babies safe from the neighborhood cat. However, she worries that her…
son is becoming overly afraid of the world that awaits him outside. For grades K-3The rings of Saturn
Par Michael Hulse, W. G. Sebald, Winfried Georg Sebald. 1999
A walking tour of England's southeast coast frames a wide-ranging series of meditations on literature and stories from Britain's imperial…
past. A stay in a Norwich hospital prompts the protagonist to search for naturalist Thomas Browne's skull; a railroad bridge over the river Blyth recalls England's silk trade with China. 1998The complete short novels: Introduction by Richard Pevear (Everyman's Library Classics Series)
Par Anton Chekhov, Larissa Volokhonsky, Richard Pevear, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov. 2004
Anton Chekhov, widely hailed as the supreme master of the short story, also wrote five works long enough to be…
called short novels, here brought together in one one volume for the first time, in a new translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa VolokhonskyWeeds in bloom: autobiography of an ordinary man
Par Robert Newton Peck. 2007
The author of more than sixty books for young people, including A Day No Pigs Would Die (DB 37104), discusses…
the folks he met--while growing up on a small Vermont farm and later in life--to show, he says, "how plain people can sparkle." For junior and senior high readers. 2005Man of letters: the extraordinary life and times of literary impresario Rupert Hart-Davis
Par Philip Ziegler, Philip Zeigler. 2005
Biography of British editor and publisher Rupert Hart-Davis (1907-1999). Relates his upper-class childhood, his initial attempt at a career in…
the theater, and his success in the world of manuscripts that led to a knighthood in 1967. 2004I have a sister--my sister is deaf
Par Jeanne Whitehouse Peterson, Deborah Kogan Ray. 1977
One time, I saw morning come home: a remembrance
Par Clair Huffaker. 1974
Noted western author's tender novelization of his parents' life and love together. Tells stories of his gentle mother, Orlean, and…
his wild, passionate father, Clair, from their first meeting as teenagers in a little Utah mining town to their valiant struggles through the Great Depression and starting a family. 1974Father figure: a novel
Par Richard Peck. 1996
Seventeen-year-old Jim and eight-year-old Byron are reunited with their father after their mother's death. Jim was Byron's father figure for…
years but now must find a new role for himself in the family. Some strong language. For junior and senior high readers. 1978Hannah's winter of hope (Pioneer Daughters #3)
Par Jean Van Leeuwen, Harry Bliss, Donna Diamond. 2000
Fairfield, Connecticut. In the winter of 1780, Hannah hopes for the safe return of her brother Ben, a colonial soldier…
imprisoned by the British, as she helps her family rebuild their home. Sequel to Hannah's Helping Hands (DB 55798). For grades 2-4. 2000Hannah's helping hands (Pioneer Daughters #2)
Par Jean Van Leeuwen, Donna Diamond, Phyllis Fogelman. 1999
1779. In this sequel to Hannah of Fairfield (DB 55797), the Revolutionary War is drawing closer to the Perley's home…
in Connecticut. Hannah and her family keep busy with farm chores and try not to worry about Ben, a soldier in the colonial army. For grades 2-4. 1999. 24. 1999