Ten-year-old Darby Bannister has difficulty adjusting to a new environment when she moves with her family from Washington, D.C., to Atlanta in the middle of World War II.

Salted Lemons

Smith, Doris Buchanan

Children's Books

Atheneum

Abused by his grandfather and neglected by his mother, a "tough" thirteen-year-old sees running away as the only solution to changing his life until a friend open his eyes to an alternative.

Tough Chauncey

Puffin

Ten-year-old Laura must deal with her unease about her lack of religious upbringing, when her best friends are Jewish and Christian, and with her feelings for a mysterious neighbor who seems to be a witch.

Laura Upside-Down

Return to Bitter Creek

An illegitimate child in the South learns the meaning of love and family life.

Janessa's only way to ease the pain of lying immobilized in a hospital bed is to remain numb to everything and everyone until the day her imagination chances on the key to another world where she can run free again

Voyages

Teen & Young Adult

Literature & Fiction

Devoted to the memory of her father, who has been missing in action in Vietnam for more than ten years, Ancil has difficulty accepting her new stepfather. A companion volume to "Last Was Lloyd."

The First Hard Times

As she struggles to cope with a difficult mother and finding her place in the world, young Nealy Compton finds solace in the relative solitude and safety beneath her neighbor's porch

Best Girl

A rift develops in the closeness shared by eleven-year-old Jonathon and his best friends when a new boy moves onto the street and insists on pushing himself into Jonathon's life

The Pennywhistle Tree

Putnam Juvenile

Jamie is special, full of surprises, unpredictable. He can get into trouble, and then out of it. He courts danger, and always escapes. And he has an answer for every impossible question. But when something sudden and terrible happens to Jamie, his best friend has to face the tragedy alone. Now there are questions that not even Jamie could have answered. How could Jamie be alive one minute, and the next, gone forever? How can some things, like flowers or playing games in the sun or the taste of the blackberries Jamie loved, go on without him - and still be so full of joy and pleasure?

Taste of Blackberries

scholastic

A Taste of Blackberries

A portrayal of a young boy's attempt to understand and accept his best friend's sudden death

Growing Up & Facts of Life

Scholastic Paperbacks

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