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Run Softly, Go Fast
This is the diary kept by nineteen-year-old David which he hoped might help him analyze the strange relationship between himself and his recently deceased father.
The Country of the Heart
A young man describes the joys and anguish of his relationship with a famous woman poet who comes to his town to live as a recluse.
Presenting Barbara Wersba
For aficionados of the new realism in young adult literature, Poe (English, Radford U.) showcases one of its early and continuing stars. Wersba's biography and analysis of her themes in such classics as The Dream Catcher (1968) are interwoven. Rounding out the critical portrait is a chronology and awards list for this writer, actress, teacher, publisher, loner, and friend of adolescents trying to find and accept themselves. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Twenty-six Starlings Will Fly Through Your Mind
The 26 letters of the alphabet are strung together into a myriad of words and images.
The Dream Watcher
The Catcher in the Rye meets Harold and Maude in this timeless tale of teenage angst. Albert Scully is the quintessential miserable teenager. He sees himself as the "all-American" failure-until he meets Mrs. Orpha Woodfin, an 80-year-old eccentric who helps him understand the value of being an individual.The Dream Watcher won a Library of Congress Children's Book Award in 1968 and was named a Booklist Junior Contemporary Classic in 1984.
Beat the Turtle Drum
An ALA Notable Book and an IRA-CBC Children’s Choice: Losing your sister can mean losing your best friend too Thirteen-year-old Kate is thrilled for her sister, Joss, when Joss finds out she gets to keep a horse for a week as a birthday present. Then in one tragic moment, all of the happiness is gone, and numbness and grief overwhelm the family. Kate cannot imagine how she’ll survive but knows somehow she must come to terms with her loss. In this heart-wrenching story, Kate strives to find a place where joyful memories and painful loss can coexist.
Weedflower
Twelve-year-old Sumiko feels her life has been made up of two parts: before Pearl Harbor and after it. The good part and the bad part. Raised on a flower farm in California, Sumiko is used to being the only Japanese girl in her class. Even when the other kids tease her, she always has had her flowers and family to go home to. That all changes after the horrific events of Pearl Harbor. Other Americans start to suspect that all Japanese people are spies for the emperor, even if, like Sumiko, they were born in the United States! As suspicions grow, Sumiko and her family find themselves being shipped to an internment camp in one of the hottest deserts in the United States. The vivid color of her...
Roger and the Devil
When the Devil tries to win his soul, Roger, the town trickster, has a plan to outwit him.
The Devil's Storybook
The Devil's Storybook is a 1974 New York Times Book Review Notable Children's Book of the Year and a 1975 National Book Award Finalist for Children's Books. An ALA Notable Book Chosen by School Library Journal as one of the Best of the Best Books
A Toad for Tuesday
On Thursday a toad is captured by an owl who saves him to eat on Tuesday, the owl's birthday, but the intervening five days change his mind.
