When Sylvia Bergstrom Compson discovers a stash of letters in the attic of Elm Creek Manor, she traces a remarkable tale back to 1859. Then, escaped slave Joanna spent a brief period at Elm Creek...
Search Results
-
Auteur: Chiaverini, JenniferSommaire:Genre: Domestic fiction
-
Auteur:Sommaire:
Based on the diary of a fifteen-year-old drug user chronicling her struggle to escape the pull of the drug world.
Genre: Diary fiction, Young adult fiction -
Auteur: Bowler, TimSommaire:
Knowing that he is dying, Jess's grandfather insists on returning to the river he had known as a boy to finish a special painting and fulfill a life-long dream.
Genre: Juvenile fiction -
Auteur: Harlow, Joan HiattSommaire:
In 1942, fourteen-year-old Jill goes to stay with her grandmother on the coast of Maine, where she is introduced to the often gossipy nature of small-town life, and discovers that the war is...
Genre: Juvenile fiction -
Auteur: Chiaverini, JenniferSommaire:
Pledging her loyalty to the North at the risk of her life when her native Virginia secedes, Quaker-educated aristocrat Elizabeth Van Lew uses her innate skills for gathering military intelligence...
Genre: Historical fiction, Spy fiction -
Auteur: Byars, BetsySommaire:
When you're a pinball, life is a risky game, especially for three adolescent children placed in a foster home. Their hard-won defenses are firmly in place as these three uneasy strangers meet...
Genre: Juvenile fiction -
Auteur: Ho, MinfongSommaire:
For years war has touched the Cambodian village where 12-year-old Dara lives. Bombs have gradually destroyed the huts and temple. Recently, soldiers marched into town and burned all the rice seed...
Genre: Juvenile fiction -
Auteur: Howe, JamesSommaire:
A trip to the museum with Pinky's dad and his sister, Amanda, puts Pinky and Rex's friendship to the test. Will their friendship survive when both youngsters set their sights on the same stuffed...
Genre: Juvenile fiction -
Auteur: Howe, JamesSommaire:
Best friends Pinky and Rex have been looking forward to this weekend for a long time. It's the weekend they're going camping alone with their dads. Everything is ready: the station wagon is...
Genre: Juvenile fiction -
Auteur: Howe, JamesSommaire:
Pinky has gotten on the bad side of Kevin, the third grade bully. Kevin thinks Pinky is a sissy because he wears pink, rides a pink bike and plays with Rex-a girl. He even knocks Pinky off his...
Genre: Juvenile fiction -
Auteur: Chiaverini, JenniferSommaire:
Bonnie's quilting shop goes out of business just as her divorce approaches. But Bonnie gets a chance to escape when her old friend Claire invites her to Hawaii to help launch a new quilter...
Genre: Domestic fiction -
Auteur: Chiaverini, JenniferSommaire:
Fervent abolitionism rules the day in 1862 Water's Ford, Pennsylvania. So when the local men answer Mr. Lincoln's call to arms, wives are left behind to keep the town functioning....
Genre: Domestic fiction, Historical fiction -
Auteur: Chiaverini, JenniferSommaire:
Meditating on the weddings she has attended in Elm Creek Manor throughout the years on the morning of her daughter's wedding day, Sarah McClure evaluates the symbolic features on a wedding...
Genre: Domestic fiction -
Auteur: Chiaverini, JenniferSommaire:
Struggling with a meager existence on a Prohibition-era farm in Southern California and devastated by the losses of four of her children to a wasting disease, Rosa flees with her surviving...
Genre: Historical fiction, Romance fiction -
Auteur: Lutz, LisaSommaire:
Izzy Spellman struggles with a bizarre assignment: trailing a woman's husband despite his apparent lack of suspicious behavior. As the questions pile up, Izzy becomes more determined than...