In 1947, after the war, Willa Mae's father returns to the Illinois town where she has lived with her maternal grandparents for the last five of her eleven years, and Willa Mae finds herself struggling to understand old family tensions and secrets.
Salt & Storm - Free Preview (the First 11 Chapters)
by Kendall Kulper
Winner of the YA Book Prize 2018.Shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal.Selected for the 2017 Zoella & Friends Book Club.The things I’ve seen are burned into me, like scars that refuse to fade.Father John controls everything inside The Fence. And Father John likes rules. Especially about never talking to Outsiders. Because Father John knows the truth. He knows what is right, and what is wrong. He knows what is coming.Moonbeam is starting to doubt, though. She’s starting to see the lies behind Father...
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume 1
by M. T. Anderson
Day No Pigs Would Die (A Day No Pigs Would Die, #1) (Laurel-Leaf Books)
by Robert Newton Peck
To a thirteen-year-old Vermont farm boy whose father slaughters pigs for a living, maturity comes early as he learns "doing what's got to be done," especially regarding his pet pig who cannot produce a litter.
The life of ten-year-old Bobby Lassiter changes drastically when she meets Mister Boots, a man who is also a horse.
Of Phantoms and Fury (Of Monsters and Madness, #2)
by Jessica Verday
Note: This book was cancelled, and it is now included in newer editions of book one. The sequel to Of Monsters and Madness from a New York Times best-selling author. Edgar Allan Poe and Annabel Lee return for more Gothic thrills in this mashup drawing on Frankenstein and The Picture of Dorian Gray."Madness most magnificent!" --The El Paso Times on Of Monsters and MadnessIn mourning after the sudden death of her grandfather, Annabel Lee is devastated when her beau, Allan Poe, commits himself to...
In 1962 in South Carolina, twelve-year-old Esta is called into the ministry of Jesus and anointed with the gift of healing, but when her relatives decide to take her on a religious crusade she wonders if it is the right thing to do.
Like Clockwork (Clockwise Collection, #3)
by Lee Strauss and Elle Strauss
LIKE CLOCKWORK is a companion book to Clockwise and can be read alone.Adeline doesn't feel she belongs in her own time, but can bad boys from the past be trusted?Adeline Savoy had hoped that the move west from Cambridge to Hollywood with her single dad would mean they'd finally bond like a real family, but all she got was a father too busy with his new female friends and his passion for acting to really see her.Instead, she finds herself getting attached to Faye, the divorcee hairdresser she bef...
A fictionalized biography of the mathematician and astronomer who realized his childhood desire to become a ship's captain and authored The American Practical Navigator
With Every Drop of Blood
by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
While trying to transport food to Richmond, Virginia, during the Civil War, fourteen-year-old Johnny is captured by a black Union soldier.
