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House of Dreams: The Life of L. M. Montgomery
An affecting biography of the author of Anne of Green Gables is the first for young readers to include revelations about her last days and to encompass the complexity of a brilliant and sometimes troubled life. Once upon a time, there was a girl named Maud who adored stories. When she was fourteen years old, Maud wrote in her journal, “I love books. I hope when I grow up to be able to have lots of them.” Not only did Maud grow up to own lots of books, she wrote twenty-four of them herself as L. M. Montgomery, the world-renowned author of Anne of Green Gables. For many years, not a great deal was known about Maud’s personal life. Her childhood was spent with strict, undemonstrative grandparents, and her reflections on writing, her lifelong struggles with anxiety and depression, her “year of mad passion,” and her difficult married life remained locked away, buried deep within her unpublished personal journals. Through this revealing and deeply moving biography, kindred spirits of all ages who, like Maud, never gave up “the substance of things hoped for” will be captivated anew by the words of this remarkable woman.
I Just Hope It's Lethal
The teenage years are filled with sadness, madness, joy, and all the messy stuff in between. This collection includes poems by Charles Bukowski, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, T.S. Eliot, Edgar Allen Poe, W.B. Yeats, Dorothy Parker, and many more, including teenage writers.
The Carousel
Two sisters find that the horses of a broken carousel have come alive in the rain.
The Laws of Gravity
Nicole, airy and beautiful, discovers that her body is betraying her, and in her despair she appeals to her cousin Ari for the blood supply that he's been banking for his own children. Denied access to the blood, Nicole and Ari enter into a legal battle that Solomon Richter, state Supreme Court justice, must decide as his last case before retirement. The bonds of family are tested in the ensuing court case.
We Wanted You
The loving voices of a child's parents tell the story of an adoption, from waiting to meet the baby for the first time through the growth of a family. Peter Catalanotto's vibrant illustrations form a clever and dramatic counterpoint to the text: presented as a series of family snapshots, the images run backward in time.
Monster Mama
Patrick Edward's fierce monster mother helps him deal with some obnoxious bullies.
What James Said
A little girl ignores her best friend James after she hears rumors that he has been talking about her, but soon realizes that she misses his friendship.
Tyrannosaurus Dad
Tobias's father is different from other dads, not only because he is a tyrannosaurus but also because he is busy all of the time. But when disaster looms during Field Day at Tobias's school, his dad comes through. Full color.
Scribbles, Sorrows, and Russet Leather Boots: The Life of Louisa May Alcott
Insightful, exciting, and deeply moving, Liz Rosenberg’s distinctive portrait of the author of Little Women reveals some of her life’s more complex and daring aspects. Moody and restless, teenage Louisa longed for freedom. Faced with the expectations of her loving but hapless family, the Alcotts, and of nineteenth-century New England society, Louisa struggled to find her place. On long meandering runs through the woods behind Orchard House, she thought about a future where she could write and think and dream. Undaunted by periods of abject poverty and enriched by friendships with some of the greatest minds of her time and place, she was determined to have this future, no matter the cost. Drawing on the surviving journals and letters of Louisa and her family and friends, author and poet Liz Rosenberg reunites Louisa May Alcott with her most ardent readers. In this warm and sometimes heartbreaking biography, Rosenberg delves deep into the oftentimes secretive life of a woman who was ahead of her time, imbued with social conscience, and always moving toward her future with a determination that would bring her fame, tragedy, and the realization of her biggest dreams.
The Silence in the Mountains
When his family leaves their war-torn country to come to live in America, a young boy has trouble adjusting, until his grandfather helps him find what he had missed most.
