Me and Rupert Goody

Learning to share love Things at Jennalee's house are just plain crazy, which is why she loves her predictable days helping Uncle Beau (who isn't really her uncle) at his general store. But then Rupert Goody shows up, claiming to be Uncle Beau's son. Jennalee can't believe it, because Rupert is black and Uncle Beau is white. But Uncle Beau tells her it is true and incorporates Rupert into his life, ruining Jennalee's routine. Although Rupert is slow, he is kind-hearted and tries hard to please. When more unforeseen events -- this time frightening ones -- further interrupt life at the store, Jennalee comes to see that Rupert Goody, odd though he may be, is certainly not the worst unexpected thing that could come along, and that he belongs with Uncle Beau as much as she does. With a vividly depicted setting, emotional truth, and a distinctly Southern voice, Barbara O'Connor shows that there is love enough to go around.

Children's Books

O'Connor, Barbara

Lanino, Deborah

Literature & Fiction

Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

The Revelation of Saint Bruce

When high-school senior Bruce Wells inadvertently snitches on his friends, he learns painful lessons about being true to himself and different from his classmates

Seymour, Tres

Orchard Books

Following her mother's death in the early 1900s, thirteen-year-old Harry lives on Aunt Sarah's isolated farm, where an accident with her spirited colt, Kid, leaves her a changed young woman.

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Teen & Young Adult

Haas, Jessie

Greenwillow

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