Young Violet wants nothing but to spend her summer with her best friend Lottie. Violet and Lottie live in a small town and are used to country-style living, but everything soon changes when prissy Melissa from Detroit moves in. Melissa doesn't like to get her hands dirty, obsesses over celebritie...
Citified Melissa breezes into town and places a wedge between country girls and best friends Violet and Lottie. Lottie is duly impressed with Melissa while Violet can’t stand her. More interesting to me is the tug of adolescence on Lottie, with Melissa’s encouragement, while Violet poignantly yea...
I really liked this book because it was a mystery. It was about a mysterious girl named Tara who has appeared out of nowhere. She is a strange girl who claims to have her seal skin stolen from her. She is always very quiet and only talks to a girl named Allie Jo and Chase. But then one day a stra...
I fear that some of my committee members will want to drop this title, simply because of the mature themes in this middle grade novel. Hailey's new private school friends smoke, ride in cars with boys, skip classes, cheat, and dabble in just about every other rebellious thing a middle school stud...
Mark Zimmerman hunched over the other side. He was looking down while he talked, but I could tell it was an intense conversation. Normally, I wouldn’t interrupt Dad, and even now I reconsidered it, but all I could think of was shaking this place. I jerked Dad’s arm hard. “Hey!” He smiled up at me...