When her adoptive father is hospitalized after an accident, Mellie is befriended by Geem-Wah, owner of a Chinese laundry, who holds the key to the events surrounding Mellie's birth eleven years ago.

Her Own Song

Howard, Ellen

Literature & Fiction

HarperCollins, Publishers

Gillyflower

Sister

Alena, the eldest child of a large family, remains hopeful despite the hardships of growing up on a farm in the late 1800s.

A touching and sensitive look at coping with grief and loss tells of Kate and her beloved dog Murphy, who grow up together, and poignantly evokes Kate's sadness at Murphy's death, reminding youngsters how life continues.

Murphy and Kate

Children's Books

Animals

Simon&Schuster Children's Publishing

Tells of the friendship between Marguerite and Francie, a severely handicapped new neighbor, in Los Angeles during the 1920s

A Circle of Giving

Atheneum

After a slave uprising on an eighteenth century settlement in the Virgin Islands, a white girl held prisoner by the rebels follows a slow passage to understanding of her captors.

When Daylight Comes

Teen & Young Adult

A new neighborhood friend, protective feelings toward her sister, and a desire to be free of guilt, shame, and fear aid Gillian Harper to find courage to free herself from her sexually abusive father

When her adoptive father is hospitalized after an accident, Mellie is befriended by Geem-Wah, owner of a Chinese laundry, who holds the key to the events surrounding Mellie's birth eleven years ago.

After the death of her seventh child, Alena's mother is too grief-stricken to take care of her family, so thirteen-year-old Alena must put aside her dream of becoming a teacher, quit school, and tend to the family

Even though her brothers tease her about not being big enough to do any of the important jobs on the farm, Faith proves that she is brave enough to go down into the dark cellar for apples

The Cellar

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Her Own Song

Gillyflower

Sister

Murphy and Kate

A Circle of Giving

When Daylight Comes

Gillyflower

Her Own Song

Sister

The Cellar