Beth Kephart
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
Georgia knows what it means to keep secrets. She knows how to ignore things. She knows that some things are better left unsaid. . . . Or are they?
When Georgia and her best friend, Riley, travel along with nine other suburban Pennsylvania kids to Anapra, a squatters' village in the heat-flattened border city of Juarez, Mexico, secrets seem to percolate and threaten both a friendship and a life. Certainties unravel. Reality changes. And Georgia
...Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
If eleven-year-old Sara and her brother Hawk can complete a task involving the reclusive author renting out the silo on their farm for the summer, they will receive reward money that will pay for Sara's life-saving surgery.
Author
Publisher
Cameron Kids
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A poetic picture-book biography about artist N.C. Wyeth's daughter, Henriette, a talented painter in her own right" -- Amazon.com.
"A picture-book biography of painter Henriette Wyeth, depicting a day in her childhood, learning how to paint and be inspired from her father, painter N. C. Wyeth"--
7) Wild blues
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Lizzie relates, through a victim statement, her harrowing journey through the Adirondacks seeking her disabled friend, Matias, who was kidnapped by escaped convicts.
8) Cloud hopper
Author
Publisher
Penelope Editions
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Sophie and her best friends Wyatt and K set out to help when a silent, mysterious girl in a homemade hot air balloon lands in rural Gilbertine.
Author
Publisher
Cameron Kids
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"William Morris is best known for his colorful wallpapers and textiles, inspired by the English forests and wild foliage where he grew up. But did you know this icon of the Arts and Crafts Movement was also a poet, a painter, a preservationist, an activist, an environmentalist, and a maker of many other beautiful useful things, like books?"--
"A poetic story about the life and work of William Morris, maker of beautiful, useful things, sure to engage...
Author
Publisher
Temple University Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Highly personal and idiosyncratically historical, this book is a memoirist's guide to more than fifty paper objects, including report cards, maps, menus, spreadsheets, broadsides, library cards, prescriptions, tickets, books, dictionaries, file folder, and legal tender--and an invitation to readers whose stories might be a single box or shelf away"--
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