The beloved author of bestsellers" Women Talking ," A Complicated Kindness , and" All My Puny Sorrows "returns with a funny, smart, headlong rush of a novel full of wit, flawless writing, and a tribute to perseverance and love in an...
Grandmothers
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Author:Miriam, ToewsSummary: - Author:DiCamillo, KateSummary:
The beloved author of Because of Winn-Dixie has outdone herself with a hilarious and achingly real love story about a girl, a ghost, a grandmother, and growing up. It's the summer before fifth grade, and for Ferris Wilkey, it is a...
- Author:Bustard, AnneSummary:
From the author of Blue Skies comes a lively middle grade novel about a young, alien-loving girl trying to clear her grandmother's name in this mystery that has humor, hijinks, and heart in equal measure. It's 1964, the Space Race is...
- Author:Dey, MyrnaSummary:
A chance discovery of a sepia photograph of her grandmother and her twin sister leads RCMP Constable Arabella Dryvynsydes on an investigation: how did a picture taken in 1914 in the mining town of Extension, BC end up at a garage sale...
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Author:Eldredge, JanSummary:A standout middle grade adventure with a sassy, memorable heroine and a charming Southern feel, perfect for fans of Kate DiCamillo and Natalie Lloyd. Twelve-year-old haunt huntress apprentice Evangeline Clement spends her days and...
- Author:Mills, AllisonSummary:
Shelly et sa grand-mère attrapent des fantômes. Dans leurs cheveux. Comme toutes les femmes de leur famille, elles peuvent voir des âmes qui n'ont pas encore fait la transition et c'est leur travail de les aider tout au long de leur...
- Author:Stonehouse, CathySummary:
A long poem in six sections, Dream House takes its cue from Gaston Bachelard's The Poetics of Space in its investigation of female embodiment, calling up such feral, liminal spaces as the pregnant body, the aging mind, snail shells,...
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Author:Barnes, JenniferSummary:Reluctant debutante Sawyer Taft joined Southern high society for one reason and one reason alone: to identify and locate her biological father. But the answers Sawyer found during her debutante year only left her with more questions and...
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Author:Singleton, Linda JoySummary:Oh, wow—I'm my own best friend. Or at least, I'm in her body! Okay, this assignment will be quick and easy. Thanks, Grammy! See, my dead grandmother keeps finding people who have big problems and then I have the freaky experience of...
- Author:Singleton, Linda JoySummary:
Oh, wow-I'm my own best friend. Or at least, I'm in her body! Okay, this assignment will be quick and easy. Thanks, Grammy! See, my dead grandmother keeps finding people who have big problems and then I have the freaky experience of...
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Author:Kingsbury, KateSummary:Melanie West and her grandmother, Liza, open a bed-and-breakfast inn on the Oregon coast replete with a friendly ghost, one very real skeleton in the closet, and a freshly dead body on the beach. It seems someone doesn't appreciate...
- Author:Andrews, V. C. (Virginia C.)Summary:
When she moves to Boston to live with her wealthy grandmother, Heaven believes that she has found a place to belong and an opportunity to make something of herself until she begins to realize the terrible truth beneath the glamorous...
- Author:Dempsey, CatherineSummary:
Key Selling Points - A young girl and her grandmother work together to set up her first beehive. Simple, straightforward information about beekeeping and the importance of bees to the environment. A gentle story that celebrates...
- Author:Roy, SuzanneSummary:
Depuis la mort de sa petite fille, Marianne n'est plus que l'ombre d'elle-même. Sa vie si parfaite a volé en éclat, emportant avec elle le merveilleux couple qu'elle formait avec Charles. Depuis, plus rien ne la...
- Author:Harvey, Kristy WoodsonSummary:
In the newest installment of New York Times bestselling author Kristy Woodson Harvey's Peachtree Bluff series, three generations of the Murphy women must come together when a hurricane threatens to destroy their hometown-and the...
- Author:Blackstock, TerriSummary:
The first Christmas story from New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Terri Blackstock. "The feel-good Christmas book of the year. Blackstock's tale of love and redemption wrapped in a holiday bow will leave you smiling. Don't...
- Author:Ormsbee, KathrynSummary:
As she learns to make music of her own, Cline Alden begins to realize how much of herself she's been holding back. But now, there's a new song taking shape in her heart, if only she can find her voice and sing it.
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Author:Summers, SheilaSummary:On a blustery, November morning, a young girl and her mother set off on their annual Thanksgiving week trip to Grandma Shy’s country cottage in the rolling hills of Bucks County, Pennsylvania. It will be a week filled with tender hugs,...
- Author:Bell, NancySummary:
As J.R., Biggie Weatherford's 12-year-old grandson, recounts Biggie's uncanny ability to solve the peskiest cases, his observations are spiced with his wry adolescent view of grownups. A trip to a nearby town introduces J.R. to a ghost...
- Author:Bell, NancySummary:
Biggie is active planning the town's Pioneer Days festival when she learns of Mayor Gribbons' scheme to establish a landfill right next to her family cemetary. She meets the mayor at a local diner, but the man suddenly falls dead into...
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