"He didn't tell me we were having company until we got to the shore. We weren't having our time together the way I thought we would... and now Daddy wanted to act like he had complaints about me." Lexie can't believe how awful she feels. Not only are her parents divorced and Mom is no longer comi...
The summary of this novel is that Petros, a Greek-American boy, is caught in the midst of World War II. his cousin Lambros, a well-known Greek soldier, has came home during a German occupation. Lambros has done many things to the Germans to make them not like him so once he came home he put Petro...
Maude and Sallie March have the great misfortune of seeing their Aunt Ruthie get gunned down outside of the mercantile. This makes them orphans a second time over, and although the Reverend Peasley takes them in, it’s hardly an ideal situation. The Reverend’s wife is like to work the girls to t...
The papers call Maude notorious. But 12-year-old Sallie knows her big sister didn't do the things the stories say . . . not on purpose anyway. In fact, she and Maude have made a fresh start and are trying to live on the up-and-up. But just when the girls are settling into their new life, Maude is...
A Southern charmer for fans of Newbery Honor book Three Times Lucky by Sheila TurnageAudrey Couloumbis's masterful debut novel brings to mind Karen Hesse, Katherine Paterson, and Betsy Byars's The Summer of the Swans—it is a story you will never forget. Willa Jo and Little Sister are up on the ro...
A small round upstairs room was topped off with a roof like a pointy cap. The house was cute. Pretty, even, with periwinkle blue shutters and those fish-scale shingles around the roofline. Daddy would have admired the flower beds. We shivered as we climbed the steps. It was summer, but we hadn't ...
It was almost a disappointment, how easy it was to see Mom and hang around in her room. We found somebody to give her TV service for when we weren’t there. Mom could only sit up halfway, because of her leg. She wore the flannel nightgown Mrs. Buttermark had brought her. She had some leggings too,...
I messed around with the cans, hoping to time it so I could get back in the house while she was in the garage. Actually, I saw Patsy’s mom pretty often, usually as we passed each other in the driveway, taking out the garbage. But tonight I didn’t want to face her. She looked like she was going so...