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A Novel in Stories. Fiction Every year for nine years during the Great Depression, Joey and his sister Mary Alice journey from the excitement of their home- town of Chicago to spend time with their Grandma Dowdell in a small town in southern Illinois. Stories of their adventures with Grandma Dowdell, a no-nonsense woman who can only be described as unusual, are never boring and are often laugh-out- loud funny.

A Year Down Yonder. It is narrated by Mary Alice, a fif- teen-year-old girl sent to spend a year with her Grandma Dowdell when her father is laid off during the Great Depression. Faced with the typical problems of adolescence, Mary Alice learns a great deal from her one-of-a-kind grandmother. Is Everyone Moonbumed but Me? Fiction Hannah, the middle child in her family, is a responsible, depend- able, pleasant, gifted young girl. She, however, does not see her- self as special at all — in fact, she thinks she is plain.

Frustrated at being the middle child, she wants to move in with her father, but the fact that he is dating makes that difficult. Hannah learns that family relationships are complicated. Fiction Elsie Mcphee lives with her mom and her seven-year-old brother Tommy. Elsie is home tutored, prevented from making friends, and not allowed out of their apartment without her mother.

Elise's family is always on the nm, and she feels like a prisoner in her own home. Her memories of her father and her past are painful — has it actually been four years since she was abruptly taken from him? Elsie is torn between contacting her father and being loyal to her mother. Fiction Olivia is a fourteen-year-old girl living in England. Her parents are recently separated, and her father has moved in with another woman. While struggling to adjust to her parents' separation, Olivia meets and becomes close friends with a new boy in town, Ryan. Just as Olivia and Ryan move toward a serious relation- ship, they discover that they are half siblings.

Though confused and angry at first, Olivia learns to accept and appreciate her new family structure. Fiction Fourteen-year-old Sophie lives with her mother in England. She doesn't appreciate her mother, whom she finds materialistic in comparison to her missionary father living in Africa.

Sophie's father comes for a visit at the same time Sophie meets and befriends Tony. Sophie begins to recognize her mother 's love for her and her father's shortcomings. Eventually, she accepts her parents' faults, appreciates their love for her, and finds that she has fallen in love with Tony. Fiction This is the low-key, poetically told story of Ellie Farley as she moves from eleven to twelve years of age.

It's also the story of Ellie and Bullet, the himting dog her dad imexpectedly brings home. Ellie is glad to have Bullet during this year of odd events. Yet it's also a year of small, ordinary pleasures of life in rural West Virginia. Lord of the Deep. Fiction Although the lord of the deep in this story is Bill Monks, skipper of the fishing vessel Crystal-C, the true hero is Mikey Donovan, his stepson.

Mikey sails with Bill every day in order to learn the trade and prepare for his own chance at being skipper. Mikey idolizes Bill and stays with him day in and day out. He's even there the three days the obnoxious clients from Colorado come aboard and everyone is in for a rough ride. The Great Blue Yonder. Fiction Reminiscent of Our Town and It's a Wonderful Life, this novel of young Harry's death and moving on to the Great Blue Yonder is in turn hilarious and touching, or "nicely sad," as Harry would say.

His authentic ten-year-old voice adds humor to events as Harry discovers how to repair the damage of his last words to his sister, "You'll be sorry when I'm dead," spoken just before he was hit by a truck while riding his bike. Fiction Blister is the name Alyssa gives herself once life begins to turn sour. After "ten ordinary years as an only child," Mom and Dad start having problems, and the baby they've all been waiting for dies during labor.

Dad moves out and ignores Alyssa; Mom is too wrapped up in her own worries and depression to notice her; and Grandma is only around when she's not taking part in dance competitions. Finally Alyssa decides she has had enough and proceeds to create some problems of her own. Niker, the class bully even follows him to and from school.

When Robert is assigned to Mrs. Sorrell at the 36 Chapter 1: Families 19 retirement home as part of a class project, however, he achieves self-respect and respect from his classmates. His link to Mrs. Sor- rell affects his life and hers in a profound way. As Robert becomes feather boy, he transforms many aspects of his life.

All the Blue Moons at the Wallace Hotel. Fiction After the death of her father, Fiona lives with her mother and sis- ter in a neglected mansion. It is Fiona's dream to become a ballet dancer and have a "normal" family, but reality doesn't live up to her dreams. Only after a series of events that put her sister's life at risk does Fiona realize that her family is her best resource to achieving her goals. Phyllis Fogelman Books, Bom during the Civil War, Paul-Edward is the son of a white plantation owner and a former slave. Paul-Edward and his sister have many of the privileges their white half brothers enjoy.

But at fourteen, Paul-Edward runs away to seek his fortune. His story is filled with excitement and danger, triumph and disappoint- ment, but mostly it is the story of triumph against incredible odds. Fiction Evan and his mother have no idea how the return of her father, after an absence of thirty years, during which he was thought dead, will change their lives.

Evan's grandfather had left Evan's mother when she was three years old and been a carpenter on ships. Now he is dying of a heart condition but returns to bring spontaneity and joy to the Bryant family, gain their forgiveness, and also help Evan deal with a bully at school. Fiction Fifteen-year-old Skylar Deacon carmot escape the grip of her overprotective parents or her past.

She struggles for independ- ence, yet her past casts shadows on her confidence. As she deals with the past, she finds loyal friends to help her face her fears and uncertainties. Fiction Jane and her mother are clearing out grandmother's home to set- tle the estate. The work is difficult but not nearly as difficult as the emotional strain of battling with selfish Aunt Norma and cousin Rikki, an egocentric slob. Meeting the mysterious, book-loving Carey at the local amusement park adds some color to Jane's oth- erwise dreary days. But when a jealous Rikki tells Jane's mother that Jane and Carey have been sneaking out at night, family his- tory begins to repeat itself as secrets from the past emerge.

Fiction Abbie and her brother Seth are growing up in Maine — by them- selves. Their mother died from the small pox epidemic and their father is away at sea. The siblings end up in the home of Lydia Chase, the widow of a sea captain who also died from small pox. Abbie helps around the house in exchange for room and board, but as Widow Chase's money begins to run out, Abbie needs to find a way to save them all. Fiction Amelia Forrest does not believe in anything — not prayer, not miracles, and certainly not in her father's return.

He is gone for- ever, and it's all her fault. Guilt ridden, twelve-year-old Amelia must learn to accept life for what it is: She must also learn to trust again as she attempts to mend her relationship with her mother and accept Brother Mustard Seed's claim of contact with her daddy.

Fiction When Kara's father leaves town for a new job two hours away, her mother slides deeper into mental illness. Sixth grader Kara hopes that by being a "perfect person" she will blend in at school 38 Chapter 1: Families 21 and prevent the situation at home from getting worse. But it seems that the more Kara tries, the worse her mother's condition becomes and the harder it is for Kara to hide her dysfunctional home life from her friends and teachers.

Fiction Sisters Ivy and Lacey are unhappy when their parents armounce they are getting a divorce. Ivy, the younger sister, is even more devastated when she finds she can't count on her relationships with Lacey anymore. Sent into a downward spiral by their par- ents' turmoil. Ivy and Lacey's closeness disappears. When Dad moves out, Lacey goes with him. Tensions escalate and the girls punch, kick, and bite each other when forced to spend the week- end together. Ivy proposes the drastic solution of a "sister spilt.

Fiction Jules spends her days as most thirteen-year-olds do. She passes notes in class and tries to avoid talking to Adrian, who has a crush on her. She spends time with her friends and tries to ignore the friction between her parents. But then life turns upside down. Jules's dad, without any explanation, leaves home and refuses to talk to her. Photographers and reporters start hounding her, jump- ing out from the bushes to steal her picture.

What is going on? Fiction Lyric never really knew her mother, but her older sister Summer has always been there for her. When their father is promised a job in the auto plants of Flint, Michigan, he moves Lyric and Summer to the city from their home in rural Virginia. Summer, whose quirkiness was considered charming in the holler, is frightened and distiurbed by the change. She slides rapidly and painfully into full-fledged schizophrenia. When Summer is committed to the state hospital. Lyric loses a loving part of her childhood. Fiction 33 22 Challenges of Coming of Age Ruby wrestles with repressed feelings and misconceptions about the previous year's life-changing event, a car accident that killed her grandfather.

The letters between Ruby and her grandmother, as well as narration and newspaper articles, reveal a strong inter- generational relationship. Fortunately, Ruby's grandmother's let- ters and the encouragement of others give Ruby the inner strength to finally deal with the accident. Ruby's letters reveal an irrepressible character with a southern flavor.

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Fiction Casey is thirteen and lives with his father. The house must be perfect and all chores done just in case Casey's dad is "not feel- ing well" when he gets home. That leaves little time for Casey to be with friends, and he's starting to resent it. Although he tries to keep it a secret, his friends, relatives, and others assure Casey that despite his fears he must confront his father about his drink- ing and convince him to get help. A Mother to Embarrass Me.

Fiction Laura is fed up — her mother is always embarrassing her. She does silly things like wearing slippers in public places just to make Laura crazy. Then her mom drops a bomb: Laura begins to develop a list of things to change about her mother, and the list is growing longer day by day. Will Laura survive this ultimate embarrassment, or will she realize how wonderful her parents and new little sister truly are?

When Kambia Elaine Flew in from Nep- tune. Fiction Shayla lives with her mom and older sister and is close to her grandmother. She befriends her neighbor Kambia Elaine and eventually learns why Kambia Elaine is so detached from the world. Shayla relays the many conflicts, including sexual abuse, parent-child struggles, and socioeconomic issues, in a touching, straightforward, and compassionate way. Although this is a book for mature reading audiences, at the center of the story is the strong core of Shayla's home and family.

Fiction Jan is devoted to her horse, especially since her father's death. But it's all her mother can do to earn enough money to make ends meet. When Jan discovers that her horse needs an operation, she knows they can't afford the surgery. Help comes from an unexpected place, however. Jan has befriended Mattie, a lonely elderly woman living next door.

Through this unlikely friendship, the two are able to help each other and come up with solutions to both their problems. Wendy Lamb Books, Fiction Fifteen-year-old Elizabeth befriends Clarence, who has been ostracized because of his cleft palate, when they both retreat to the mountain woods for refuge after a mining accident turns the town upside down. Set in West Virginia coal mining country in , the two characters alternate narration of the events as their lives turn violent during the summer the union organizers come to town and pit family members and friends against one another.

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. Fiction Four teenage girls from different backgroimds, lifelong friends, agree to mail a pair of thrift-shop jeans back and forth during their first summer away from one another. The pants magically seem to fit each girl even though the girls are very different sizes and builds. The pants give each girl confidence as she experi- ences various adolescent adventures.

Ultimately, the pants come to symbolize their sisterhood as each is faced with difficult deci- sions and serious consequences. Fiction Fiona faces a tough decision that could lead to trouble with her best friend, Blanca. She also has to figure out how to stay friends with Natalie, who's moving to a different middle school, how to 41 24 Challenges of Coming of Age be friends with a boy, and how to juggle loyalty to her friend Katie when keeping Katie's secret could mean Katie is in danger.

Pages from Fiona's diary draw readers into her world because of the humor and poignancy with which she chronicles her life. Snail Mail No More. Fiction We first met Tara and Elizabeth in P. Longer Letter Later follow- ing Tara's move to Ohio and a year of writing letters. Now Tara and Elizabeth finally have e-mail, and together they share the intense world of eighth grade in the cyberspace of immediate gratification. Honest and unpredictable, this book addresses many issues today's teenagers face: Through the wonders of e-mail, Tara and Elizabeth learn to broaden their understanding of themselves.

The Girls' Book of Friendship: Nonfiction Sharing secrets, laughter, and tears is common among girls of all ages. This book celebrates these activities and more. As the subti- tle promises, each chapter includes cool quotes, true stories, and sometimes poems or songs written by women such as Oprah Winfrey, Michelle Kwan, and Christina Aguilera.

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Topics span a wide range of subjects, from slumber party etiquette to flicks to watch with girlfriends. Serious attention is also given to making and maintaining relationships as well as learning to be your own best friend. Fiction Soon after Scarlett's boyfriend is killed in a motorcycle accident, she learns she is pregnant with his child. Never before has she needed her best friend Halley so much.

Halley has always been the quiet one and Scarlett the popular one, but now Halley must decide if she can continue to give her friend the emotional sup- port she needs. Scarlett and Halley learn just how difficult teen pregnancy can be and how important and true their friendship is. Fur-ever Yours, Booker Jones. Fiction 42 Chapter 2: Friends and Peers 25 Booker Jones enjoys his life with his family and his best friend Germ. His writing and the attention it brings consume him. This all changes when his parents leave and his sister takes charge of the house. His friendship with Germ is tested in Writing Club when Germ's writing draws more attention than his own, and when Grandpa becomes frail, Booker and his sister have to fig- ure out how to bring joy back into his life.

Fiction Jack and Chris have been best friends since first grade. Now in eighth grade, their friendship is tested as Chris blossoms from tomboy into attractive young lady, catching the eyes of other guys while still able to outmaneuver Jack in sports. Jack's feel- ings for Chris become more complicated until he wonders if he is falling in love with her. But they learn they need the easy and deep friendship they've long had as they move into the strange new world of dating. Fiction Addie Goode, who is being raised by her father after her mother abandoned them when Addie was three, always uses her imagi- nation to empathize with and help others.

She and her best friend Luke help reunite a pregnant, unwed, abused young woman with her family. At the same time, they learn to cope with Addie's new stepmother and Luke's reunited but con- tentious parents. Addie's naively wise point of view and practi- cality help many people and bring a lasting, greater good. Up on Cloud Nine. Fiction Ian and Stolly have been friends for years — such good friends that Ian's mother has practically raised Stol, whose own parents are often too busy with their high-powered careers to notice him.

After Stolly suffers a mysterious fall from an upper-floor win- dow at his home, Ian sits at his hospital bedside and wonders whether the accident was indeed accidental. Hard hitting but tender, this book explores the consequences for young people of being eccentric — "up on cloud nine" — in today's world. Fiction Clever and engaging. Iris experiences both the normal trials and tribulations of starting seventh grade her mom doesn't think she needs a bra, but she knows she does and relationships with strange, eccentric characters like Tattoo Man and Cat Lady.

Iris's open heart and friendly nature pull her into many adventures as she offers her services to neighbors who might need help with errands, chores, or shopping. Along the way, she also develops a special friendship with Will. Fiction Allie never wants to leave the island she calls home. When her family faces a financial struggle, Allie agrees to help out by working in their pie shop.

Even though she is busy, Allie longs for a friend her age and is delighted when Melanie turns out to be such a friend. Allie discovers that Melanie is vastly different from her and yet also the same. The two form a fast friendship as they learn about each other, growing up, and the world around them. All the Way Home. Fiction It's and the Dodgers are on a winning streak.

Brick, the son of apple farmers whose orchard has been destroyed by fire, and Mariel, the adopted daughter of an old family friend, develop a friendship around their love of baseball. As the Dodgers fight their way to the pennant. Brick and Mariel fight their way to their goals and, as they help each other, turn out to be as success- ful as their favorite team.

A Calliope Day Adventure. Illustrated by Steve Pica. Fiction Noreen and Calliope are direct opposites in personality, but they have one thing in common; their love for a mischievous gray parrot named Captain Tweakerbeak. This book chronicles their adventures in and out of school as they develop an unlikely friendship and learn what really counts in life. Friends and Peers 27 2. Fiction Amir has been reimited with his little brother, but he still wants to locate his other siblings. As he continues his search, he must adjust to a foster family and the realization that his little brother Ronald doesn't remember him or their parents.

Amir sorts out his feelings, frustrations, and choices by writing letters to his friend Doris back in the Bronx. Fiction After her mother dies, Martha Glimmer, age thirteen, hates her life in Oak Grove, and with two unusual friends she rims away from home. Trevor and Eli McGill, her friends, long to return to the sea, so the three begin a journey that takes several unex- pected twists and turns. A fast-paced novella, this story deals with the themes of loss, friendship, self-acceptance, and self- perception.

Fiction Told in the manner of a police report combining tape-recorded narrative with transcription of conversation, Amy tells her own story of how she turns to the Internet after being dumped by her two best friends. She meets Zed in a chat room and takes him at his word that he is who he says he is. When she sneaks off to meet him, she discovers that he has misrepresented himself. Life gets dangerous very quickly as Amy learns a lot about friend- ship and trust. Fiction Addie, Joe, Bobby, and Skeezie, self-declared misfits in their small town middle school, have been friends forever and figure that together they can survive anything.

When Addie refuses to say the Pledge of Allegiance, the quartet challenges the status quo by forming a third political party in the student coimcil elec- tions to serve all the other outsiders and misfits. Through the 45 28 Challenges of Coming of Age process of running for election, these four friends learn what their friendship really means and what real courage is all about. Fiction Etta Prentice is fourteen and an orphan.

Separated from her brother and sister, she is determined to reunite her family. Etta discovers another boy, who agrees to take her in. Together these clever teens make a life for themselves, defying all odds. Back in contact with her siblings, Etta is forced to change her dream but comes away stronger for her struggle. In her first novel, Carol Otis Hurst creates an engaging story of adolescents who re- create their family unit. Fiction Being part of the group is often the most important thing in an adolescent's life. Maya, Renee, Darcy, Briarma, and Candace are usually inseparable, imtil Darcy's sleepover party pulls their clique apart.

Written from each girl's point of view, the story reveals their opinions about the importance of being part of the group, their concepts of friendship, and the perils of friendship. Maya learns a valuable lesson about true friendship. Fiction Raleia Pendle doesn't fit in for many reasons. As her family drives to Tidal, Maine, to spend the summer, she thinks she has finally foimd a place she can feel comfortable. When she discov- ers a man who has lived virtually imtouched since the tidal wave of , she thinks she's foimd someone who can imder- stand how she feels. In addition to finding a place of her own, Raleia learns there are friends to be foimd in unexpected places.

Fiction Rebecca Luzzaro's newly learned dance steps parallel many of the relation issues common to girls her age. Just as Rebecca learns the steps to the merengue, fox trot, and tango, so she learns the dynamics of relationships with the opposite sex — 46 Chapter 2: Friends and Peers 29 ranging from the traumatic "kissing games" her friend Saman- tha is obsessed with to the finer subtleties of lifelong friends turned romantic dancing partners.

Rebecca and her partner, Scott, rise above their thirteen-year-old personas, both on and off the dance floor. Fiction Matchit doesn't know what to think when his father leaves him with Babe, a big-hearted acquaintance who owns a junkyard, so that he can visit Moimt Rushmore with his girlfriend.

Babe's friends include Sister, a taxidermist who owns a vintage Corvette, and Zebby, a sculptor who lives in an abandoned bus. None of these new people in his life sees Matchit the way he sees himself — fit for the slow-and-dumb class, not gifted and talented — and he gradually begins to change his view of himself. Fiction Alice is beginning her eighth-grade year with many friends and a boyfriend she is crazy about.

She lives with her dad and her brother Lester, who is in graduate school, and her friends think she is cool. Life is good until a new girl comes to town and rela- tionships at school change, making Alice feel alone. Fiction In this popular series, the Benson boys return to the town of Buckman for spring vacation, concocting a prank involving a nonexistent ghost that continues the war of practical jokes between two local families, the Hartford boys and the Malloy girls. Perfect for middle school students, this book will delight yoimg people with the playfulness of its heroes and their com- pelling desire to prove to the world that their "boy side" is the best.

Big Mouth and Ugly Girl. Fiction Men in white shirts and black suits show up to escort Matt from his high school English class, but before we know what's going 47 30 Challenges of Coming of Age on, we're introduced to Ursula, who talks about herself as "Ugly Girl. What Happened to Lani Garver? Fiction At sixteen, Claire's life is finally looking up. Her cancer is in remission, she's a cheerleader, and she is sitting at the most pop- ular lunch table. But when she befriends the androgynous Lani, everything changes.

Threatened by what they don't understand, Claire's friends spread a web of lies so tangled that even she can't be sure of the truth. The situation spins out of control, and Claire is left wondering; was Lani really just a boy or something much more? Fiction Finally — a humorous account about love from a boy's perspec- tive. Stan is a teenage boy without a long-term plan.

He is con- tent to float through life uncommitted until his best friend Ginny, a tennis phenom, comes home for some rest and relax- ation. Stan is chosen to coach her in a local tennis match. Every- thing, including Ginny's professional career, is at stake. Will Stan help Ginny get her swing back, or would he rather that she stay with him? Illustrated by Cliff Nielsen. Fiction In Waymer, ten-year-old boys become wringers at the town's annual Pigeon Day. Their job is to retrieve the pigeons wounded by sharpshooters and wring their necks. Hating the violence of the day and loving his pet pigeon.

Palmer LaRue has long dreaded turning ten. But refusing to be a wringer would mean ostracism from his ruthless age-mates. Support from his parents and a girl spurned by the other boys helps Palmer gather the courage to follow his convictions. Friends and Peers 31 2. Fiction In alternating chapters, Julie Baker and Bryce Loski describe what it's like living next door to each other.

Julie always thought Bryce was cool and Bryce always thought Julie was weird, but now in eighth grade everything changes. Bryce discovers that Julie's passion for trees and for the eggs laid by her backyard chickens reveal something much more important about her than just silly craziness. And Julie wonders if Bryce isn't really just a shallow jerk who doesn't care about other people's feelings.

It's Not Easy Being Bad. Fiction In their first year of jrmior high, Margalo and Mikey have a lot in common — they understand each other and they are both rmpop- ular. While they both want to do something about it, they won't relinquish who they are in order to become popular. Both girls have a penchant for being brutally honest; however, this quality is what sets them on the road to popularity while still maintain- ing their true personalities and their best friendship. Illustrated by Nick Sharratt. Fiction Mandy is pushed into the street in front of an oncoming bus by a pack of older, bad girls.

She can't tell her overprotective parents how much these girls pick on her, so she struggles to figure out a way to take care of herself.

Fate intervenes when Tanya moves next door. It turns out that though Tanya is an even bigger, bad- der girl than the bullies at school, she wants Mandy for her friend. Scotty and the Gypsy Bandit. Fiction Eleven-year-old Scotty Hansen's life is suddenly complicated when his father dies rmexpectedly, leaving Scotty and his mother to deal with their loss. The Gypsy Bandit is the next-door neighbor who gives the term "oddball" new meaning. Through a series of comic and tragic events, Scotty learns from McStew the meaning of friendship and growing up. Bringing Up the Bones. Fiction Benji and Briget are long-time friends.

She decides to take a year off to deal with her grief before going to college. When she meets Jasper, she has to take a good look at herself and at the nature of her relationship with Benji and what it meant, and she eventually learns that she has to take responsibility for her own happiness. The No Place Cat. Fiction No one understands or wants Tess. She is, for all intents and pur- poses, invisible in her house. At odds with her new stepfamily, Tess knows that life would be better if she lived with her mother. Running away from home and her problems, Tess begins a jour- ney across the desert in search of happiness.

Along the way, she befriends a stray cat, whose life is similar to hers. The cat has nowhere to go and neither does Tess. Joe Maloney is misunderstood, unwanted, and criticized by the people of Helmouth, who don't see the things Joe sees nor hear the noises he hears. Alone and fearful, Joe spends his days trying to avoid his classmates. The weekend that a pitiful, failing circus comes to town changes Joe forever: Fiction At sixteen, Charles is tired of playing "Simon Says.

In his boarding school, he's got to be like everyone else; he can't admit the truth about himself. Charles sets out to seek the one person he believes can help him escape from the game. It turns out, how- ever, that his quest is not an easy one, and the game of "Simon Says" continues anyway — with unforeseen consequences. Illustrated by Bonnie Timmons. Nonfiction This book gives tips and advice on solving all sorts of sticky or embarrassing situations that a preteen girl might face in daily life at home and at school.

How, for example, can you save face if you fall down the stairs in front of four million people? Can you 51 34 Challenges of Coming of Age keep cool in scary situations like getting lost from the group on a hike? Fiction After calling the police to bust a summer party, Melinda finds herself an outcast during her first year of high school. Painfully isolated, Melinda eventually quits speaking to anyone. As she engages in a project for her art class, she faces the dangerous events of that terrible night when she was raped. Eventually Melinda speaks out, exposing the boy who violated her and regaining a sense of self.

Twenty-First Century Books, Nonfiction From the s to the present, the gay rights movement has been an increasingly visible presence in U. Various groups have made their voices heard in an effort to achieve fair treat- ment for homosexuals. Topics in this book include gays in the military, religious organizations, marriage and family life, hate crimes, and AIDS. First French Kiss and Other Traumas. Fiction Bagdasarian recounts episodes from his childhood in this collec- tion of loosely interrelated stories that range in topic from a first French kiss, to bullies, to the importance of work, to family rela- tionships, to Little League.

The stories are by turns poignant, humorous, and whimsical, covering the author's lived experi- ences from the age of five to twenty. They become involved in the life and pol- itics of the small town and find a home and love as well as change and even death. This book is classic Bauer, mixing humor with serious life lessons. Rules of the Road. Fiction High school sophomore Jenna Boiler is great at selling shoes at Gladstone's, where she has an after-school job. The store is part of the Gladstone family chain of shoe stores. The company presi- dent, crusty, elderly Mrs.

Madeline Gladstone, chooses Jerma as her driver on a business trip to visit other Gladstone stores. Jerma agrees to go and begins on a journey, during which she must deal with loss and struggle for imderstanding. Fiction Teri, a first-year high school student, finds her life divided into "before the fire" and "after the fire" that destroyed her home and all its contents. Teri is the daughter of an immature, often divorced local beauty, but she has always been shy and lonely.

Before the fire, her only friend was Wesley; after the fire, Teri is the target of new interest. Although her choices seem limited to fitting into one of three groups — the Rowdies, Holy Rollers, or Nobodies — Teri finds the strength to be herself. Fiction Caitlin lives on an island coimected to the mainland only by a causeway. She encounters Lucas, who seems to know how to live honestly and without the petty vices she sees in herself and her community. When Lucas is accused of a crime he did not commit and is himted down by the community, with tragic con- sequences, Caitlin is forced to look into her own heart to find the strength to do what she knows is right.

Fiction Hank and his older brother Peter are orphans who ride the Orphan Train from New York City to Nebraska in , hoping to find a family who will love them. Placed with the Olsons, they soon discover that the cruel couple is interested only in how much work the boys can do. Peter nms away and Hank is left alone with the abusive couple. Lonely, angry, and frightened. Hank must find a way to save himself and reclaim his life. Fiction Mia Thermopolis is fourteen years old and in love with Josh Richter, a cool, handsome senior.

After measuring her chest size 32A , she knows he will never notice her. But Mia and best friend Lilly are having a good time until Mia learns her true identity: How does a princess act? Mia is about to find out. Ten Stories of Truth. Fiction Sophisticated readers will appreciate this collection of short sto- ries edited by author Michael Cart. With a cast of contributing authors as diverse as Joan Bauer, Laurie Raise Anderson, Angela Johnson, and Chris Lynch, this collection features a wide variety of characters, voices, settings, and relationships — some of them provocative. Adolescent passion, first loves, heterosexual and homosexual attractions, and heartbreaking decisions all have a place in these stories of truth.

The Times They Used to Be. Would you like to tell us about a lower price? Eireann's roles as wife and mother are disrupted as she transitions from the management of slave help to homemaker and nurse before and during the Civil War, The War Between the States. This fictional story draws upon the author's historic family letters. Read more Read less. Weaponry Swords and Plows Book 5.

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This is me Belchum in his twelvemile cowchooks, weet, tweet and stampforth foremost, footing the camp for the jinnies. This is Roo-shious balls. This is a ttrinch. This is Canon Futter with the popynose. This is the blessed. This is jinnies in the bonny bawn blooches. This is lipoleums in the rowdy howses. This is the Willingdone, by the splinters of Cork, order fire. This is camelry, this is floodens, this is the solphereens in action, this is their mobbily, this is panickburns. This is Willingdone cry. This is jinnies cry. This is jinnies rinning away to their ouster-lists dowan a bunkersheels.

With a nip nippy nip and a trip trip — py trip so airy. This is the bissmark of the marathon merry of the jinnies they left behind them. This is the Willingdone branlish his same marmorial tallowscoop Sophy—Key-Po for his royal divorsion on the rinnaway jinnies. Gam — bariste della porca! This is the pettiest of the lipoleums, Toffeethief, that spy on the Willingdone from his big white harse, the Capeinhope. Stonewall Willingdone is an old maxy montrumeny. Lipoleums is nice hung bushel-lors. This is hiena hinnessy laughing alout at the Willing — done. This is lipsyg dooley krieging the funk from the hinnessy.

This is the hinndoo Shimar Shin between the dooley boy and the hinnessy. This is the wixy old Willingdone picket up the half of the threefoiled hat of lipoleums fromoud of the bluddle filth. This is the hinndoo waxing ranjymad for a bombshoob. This is the Willingdone hanking the half of the hat of lipoleums up the tail on the buckside of his big white harse. That was the last joke of Willingdone. This is the same white harse of the Willingdone, Culpenhelp, waggling his tailoscrupp with the half of a hat of lipoleums to insoult on the hinndoo see-boy.

This is the seeboy, madrashattaras, upjump and pumpim, cry to the Willingdone: This is the Willingdone, bornstable ghentleman, tinders his maxbotch to the cursigan Shimar Shin. This is the dooforhim seeboy blow the whole of the half of the hat of lipoleums off of the top of the tail on the back of his big wide harse. This way the museyroom. Mind your boots goan out.

What a warm time we were in there but how keling is here the airabouts! We nowhere she lives but you mussna tell annaone for the lamp of Jig-a-Lanthern! And such reasonable weather too! A verytableland of bleakbardfields! Under his seven wrothschields lies one, Lumproar. His glav toside him. Our pigeons pair are flewn for northcliffs.

Neblas on you liv! Her would be too moochy afreet. Of Burymeleg and Bindme-rollingeyes and all the deed in the woe. She jist does hopes till byes will be byes. Come nebo me and suso sing the day we sallybright. How bootifull and how truetowife of her, when strengly fore-bidden, to steal our historic presents from the past postpropheti — cals so as to will make us all lordy heirs and ladymaidesses of a pretty nice kettle of fruit. She is livving in our midst of debt and laffing through all plores for us her birth is uncontrollable , with a naperon for her mask and her sabboes kickin arias so sair!

Did ye save any tin? And we all like a marriedann because she is mer-cenary. Though the length of the land lies under liquidation floote! To puff the blaziness on. Make strake for minnas! By order, Nicholas Proud. Behove this sound of Irish sense. Here English might be seen. One sovereign punned to petery pence. The silence speaks the scene. It reminds you of the outwashed engravure that we used to be blurring on the blotchwall of his innkempt house.

I am sure that tiring chabelshovel-ler with the mujikal chocolat box, Miry Mitchel, is listening I say, the remains of the outworn gravemure where used to be blurried the Ptollmens of the Incabus. He is only pre-tendant to be stugging at the jubalee harp from a second existed lishener, Fiery Farrelly. It is well known. Lokk for himself and see the old butte new. By the mauso-lime wall.

With a grand funferall. Fumfum fum — fum. They will be tuggling foriver. They will be lichening for allof. They will be pretumbling forover. The harpsdischord shall be theirs for ollaves. And here now they are, the fear of um. A bulbenboss surmounted upon an alderman. A shoe on a puir old wobban. A penn no weightier nor a polepost.

Men like to ants or emmets wondern upon a groot hwide Whallfisk which lay in a Runnel. Blubby wares upat Ub-lanium. Blurry works at Hurdlesford. At this time it fell out that a brazenlockt damsel grieved sobralasolas! Bloody wars in Ballyaughacleeagh-bally. Two sons at an hour were born until a goodman and his hag.

These sons called themselves Caddy and Primas. Primas was a santryman and drilled all decent people. Caddy went to Winehouse and wrote o peace a farce. Blotty words for Dublin. Somewhere, parently, in the ginnandgo gap between antedilu-vious and annadominant the copyist must have fled with his scroll. The billy flood rose or an elk charged him or the sultrup worldwright from the excelsissimost empyrean bolt, in sum earthspake or the Dannamen gallous banged pan the bliddy du-ran.

The babbelers with their thangas vain have been confusium hold them! Menn have thawed, clerks have surssurhummed, the blond has sought of the brune: Elsekiss thou may, mean Kerry piggy?: Who ails tongue coddeau, aspace of dumbillsilly? And they fell upong one another: And still nowanights and by nights of yore do all bold floras of the field to their shyfaun lovers say only: Cull me ere I wilt to thee!: Pluck me whilst I blush! Well may they wilt, marry, and profusedly blush, be troth! For that saying is as old as the howitts. Tim Timmycan timped hir, tampting Tam. In the name of Anem this carl on the kopje in pelted thongs a parth a lone who the joebiggar be he?

Forshapen his pigmaid hoagshead, shroonk his plodsfoot. Me seemeth a dragon man. He is almonthst on the kiep fief by here, is Comestipple Sacksoun, be it junipery or febrew-ery, marracks or alebrill or the ramping riots of pouriose and froriose. What a quhare soort of a mahan. It is evident the mich-indaddy. Lets we overstep his fire defences and these kraals of slitsucked marrogbones. He can prapsposterus the pil-lory way to Hirculos pillar.

Come on, fool porterfull, hosiered women blown monk sewer? Scuse us, chorley guy! You spigotty an — glease? Let us swop hats and excheck a few strong verbs weak oach ea-ther yapyazzard abast the blooty creeks. Become a bitskin more wiseable, as if I were you. I trumple from rath in mine mines when I rimimirim! Let me fore all your hasitancy cross your qualm with trink gilt. Here have sylvan coyne, a piece of oak.

Ghinees hies good for you. How wooden I not know it, the intel-lible greytcloak of Cedric Silkyshag! Cead mealy faulty rices for one dabblin bar. He was poached on in that eggtentical spot. Here where the liveries, Monomark. There where the mis-sers moony, Minnikin passe. Rooks roarum rex roome! Onheard of and um — scene! Mearmerge two races, swete and brack. Hither, craching eastuards, they are in surgence: Countlessness of livestories have netherfallen by this plage, flick as flowflakes, litters from aloft, like a waast wizzard all of whirlworlds. Now are all tombed to the mound, isges to isges, erde from erde.

Pride, O pride, thy prize! By the fearse wave behoughted. And thanacestross mound have swollup them all. This ourth of years is not save brickdust and being humus the same roturns. He who runes may rede it on all fours. Sell me sooth the fare for Humblin! But speak it allsosiftly, moulder! Be in your whisht! Stoop if you are abcedminded, to this claybook, what curios of signs please stoop , in this allaphbed! Can you rede since We and Thou had it out already its world? It is the same told of all. They lived und laughed ant loved end left.

Thy thingdome is given to the Meades and Porsons. The meandertale, aloss and again, of our old Heidenburgh in the days when Head-inClouds walked the earth. In the ignorance that implies impression that knits knowledge that finds the nameform that whets the wits that convey contacts that sweeten sensation that drives desire that adheres to attachment that dogs death that bitches birth that en-tails the ensuance of existentiality. But with a rush out of his navel reaching the reredos of Ramasbatham. A terricolous vively-onview this; queer and it continues to be quaky.

A hatch, a celt, an earshare the pourquose of which was to cassay the earthcrust at all of hours, furrowards, bagawards, like yoxen at the turnpaht.

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Here say figurines billycoose arming and mounting. Mounting and arming bellicose figurines see here. Futhorc, this liffle effingee is for a firefing called a flintforfall. Face at the eased! Face at the waist! Upwap and dump em, ace to ace! When a part so ptee does duty for the holos we soon grow to use of an allforabit. Right rank ragnar rocks and with these rox orangotangos rangled rough and rightgorong.

What a mnice old mness it all mnakes! A middenhide hoard of objects! Olives, beets, kim-mells, dollies, alfrids, beatties, cormacks and daltons. See the snake wurrums everyside! Our durlbin is sworming in sneaks. They came to our island from triangular Toucheaterre beyond the wet prairie rared up in the midst of the cargon of prohibitive pomefructs but along landed Paddy Wip-pingham and the his garbagecans cotched the creeps of them pricker than our whosethere outofman could quick up her whats-thats.

Somedivide and sumthelot but the tally turns round the same balifuson. Axe on thwacks on thracks, axenwise. One by one place one be three dittoh and one before. Two nursus one make a plaus-ible free and idim behind. Starting off with a big boaboa and three — legged calvers and ivargraine jadesses with a message in their mouths. And a hundreadfilled unleavenweight of liberorumqueue to con an we can till allhorrors eve. What a meanderthalltale to unfurl and with what an end in view of squattor and anntisquattor and postproneauntisquattor! To say too us to be every tim, nick and larry of us, sons of the sod, sons, littlesons, yea and lealittle-sons, when usses not to be, every sue, siss and sally of us, dugters of Nan!

True there was in nillohs dieybos as yet no lumpend papeer in the waste, and mightmountain Penn still groaned for the micies to let flee. All was of ancientry. You gave me a boot signs on it! I quizzed you a quid with for what? But the horn, the drinking, the day of dread are not now. A bone, a pebble, a ramskin; chip them, chap them, cut them up allways; leave them to terracook in the muttheringpot: For that the rapt one warns is what papyr is meed of, made of, hides and hints and misses in prints.

Till ye finally though not yet endlike meet with the acquaintance of Mister Typus, Mistress Tope and all the little typtopies. So you need hardly spell me how every word will be bound over to carry three score and ten toptypsical readings throughout the book of Doublends Jined may his forehead be darkened with mud who would sunder! But look what you have in your handself! And the chicks picked their teeths and the domb-key he begay began. You can ask your ass if he believes it. And so cuddy me only wallops have heels. That one of a wife with folty barnets. For then was the age when hoops ran high.

Of a noarch and a chopwife; of a pomme full grave and a fammy of levity; or of golden youths that wanted gelding; or of what the mischievmiss made a man do. Malmarriedad he was reverso-gassed by the frisque of her frasques and her prytty pyrrhique. From that trippiery toe expectungpelick! Veil, volantine, valentine eyes. Flou inn, flow ann. But lay it easy, gentle mien, we are in rearing of a norewhig. Het wis if ee newt. I am doing it. Hark, the corne entreats! And the larpnotes prittle. It was of a night, late, lang time agone, in an auldstane eld, when Adam was delvin and his madameen spinning watersilts, when mulk mountynotty man was everybully and the first leal ribberrobber that ever had her ainway everybuddy to his love-saking eyes and everybilly lived alove with everybiddy else, and Jarl van Hoother had his burnt head high up in his lamphouse, laying cold hands on himself.

And his two little jiminies, cousins of ourn, Tristopher and Hilary, were kickaheeling their dummy on the oil cloth flure of his homerigh, castle and earthenhouse. And, be dermot, who come to the keep of his inn only the niece-of-his-inlaw, the prankquean. And the prankquean pulled a rosy one and made her wit foreninst the dour.

And she lit up and fire-land was ablaze. And spoke she to the dour in her petty perusi — enne: Mark the Wans, why do I am alook alike a poss of porter — pease? And that was how the skirtmisshes began. But the dour handworded her grace in dootch nossow: And Jarl van Hoother war — lessed after her with soft dovesgall: Stop deef stop come back to my earin stop. But she swaradid to him: And there was a brannewail that same sabboath night of falling angles somewhere in Erio. And where did she come but to the bar of his bristolry. And Jarl von Hoother had his baretholobruised heels drowned in his cellarmalt, shaking warm hands with himself and the jimminy Hilary and the dummy in their first infancy were below on the tearsheet, wringing and coughing, like brodar and histher.

And the prank-quean nipped a paly one and lit up again and redcocks flew flack — ering from the hillcombs. And she made her witter before the wicked, saying: Mark the Twy, why do I am alook alike two poss of porterpease? And Jarl von Hoother bleethered atter her with a loud finegale: Stop domb stop come back with my earring stop.

But the prankquean swaradid: And there was a wild old grannewwail that laurency night of starshootings somewhere in Erio. And why would she halt at all if not by the ward of his mansionhome of another nice lace for the third charm?

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And Jarl von Hoother had his hurricane hips up to his pantry-box, ruminating in his holdfour stomachs Dare! And the prankquean picked a blank and lit out and the valleys lay twinkling. And she made her wittest in front of the arkway of trihump, asking: Mark the Tris, why do I am alook alike three poss of porter pease?

But that was how the skirtmishes endupped. And he clopped his rude hand to his eacy hitch and he ordurd and his thick spch spck for her to shut up shop, dappy. And the duppy shot the shutter clup Per-kodhuskurunbarggruauyagokgorlayorgromgremmitghundhurth — rumathunaradidillifaititillibumullunukkunun! And they all drank free. For one man in his armour was a fat match always for any girls under shurts. And that was the first peace of illiterative porthery in all the flamend floody flatuous world. How kirssy the tiler made a sweet unclose to the Narwhealian captol.

Saw fore shalt thou sea. Betoun ye and be. The prankquean was to hold her dummyship and the jimminies was to keep the peacewave and van Hoother was to git the wind up. Thus the hearsomeness of the burger felicitates the whole of the polis. Ex nickylow malo comes mickelmassed bonum. Hill, rill, ones in company, billeted, less be proud of. Breast high and bestride! Only for that these will not breathe upon Norronesen or Irenean the secrest of their soorcelossness.

Quarry silex, Homfrie Noanswa! Undy gentian festyknees, Livia No — answa? Wolkencap is on him, frowned; audiurient, he would evesdrip, were it mous at hand, were it dinn of bottles in the far ear. Murk, his vales are darkling. With lipth she lithpeth to him all to time of thuch on thuch and thow on thow.

She he she ho she ha to la. Hairfluke, if he could bad twig her! The soundwaves are his buffeteers; they trompe him with their trompes; the wave of roary and the wave of hooshed and the wave of hawhawhawrd and the wave of neverheedthemhorseluggarsandlisteltomine. And would again could whispring grassies wake him and may again when the fiery bird disembers.

And will again if so be sooth by elder to his youngers shall be said. Have you whines for my wedding, did you bring bride and bedding, will you whoop for my deading is a? Now be aisy, good Mr Finnimore, sir. To part from Devlin is hard as Nugent knew, to leave the clean tanglesome one lushier than its neighbour enfranchisable fields but let your ghost have no grievance. Not shabbty little imagettes, pennydirts and dodgemyeyes you buy in the soottee stores.

But offerings of the field. Mieliodories, that Doctor Faherty, the madison man, taught to gooden you. And honey is the holiest thing ever was, hive, comb and earwax, the food for glory, mind you keep the pot or your nectar cup may yield too light! And admiring to our supershillelagh where the palmsweat on high is the mark of your manument.

All the toethpicks ever Eirenesians chewed on are chips chepped from that battery block. If you were bowed and soild and letdown itself from the oner of the load it was that paddyplanters might pack up plenty and when you were undone in every point fore the laps of goddesses you showed our labourlasses how to free was easy. The game old Gunne, they do be saying, skull! Begog but he was, the G. There was never a warlord in Great Erinnes and Brettland, no, nor in all Pike County like you, they say.

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No, nor a king nor an ardking, bung king, sung king or hung king. Who but a Maccullaghmore the reise of our fortunes and the faunayman at the funeral to compass our cause? If you was hogglebully itself and most frifty like you was taken waters still what all where was your like to lay the cable or who was the batter could better Your Grace? Mick Mac Magnus MacCawley can take you off to the pure perfection and Leatherbags Reynolds tries your shuffle and cut.

But as Hopkins and Hopkins puts it, you were the pale eggynaggy and a kis to tilly up. We calls him the journeyall Buggaloffs since he went Jerusalemfaring in Arssia Manor. Hep, hep, hurrah there! Seven times thereto we salute you! The whole bag of kits, falconplumes and jackboots incloted, is where you flung them that time. Your heart is in the system of the Shewolf and your crested head is in the tropic of Copricapron. Your feet are in the cloister of Virgo. Your olala is in the region of sahuls. And that there texas is tow linen. The loamsome roam to Laffayette is ended. Drop in your tracks, babe!

The headboddylwatcher of the chempel of Isid, Totumcalmum, saith: I know thee, metherjar, I know thee, salvation boat. Howe of the shipmen, steep wall! Coughings all over the sanctuary, bad scrant to me aunt Florenza. As popular as when Belly the First was keng and his members met in the Diet of Man. The same shop slop in the window. Meat took a drop when Reilly—Parsons failed. The lads is attending school nessans regular, sir, spelling beesknees with hathatansy and turning out tables by mudapplication.

But Essie Shanahan has let down her skirts. They called her Holly Merry her lips were so ruddyberry and Pia de Purebelle when the redminers riots was on about her. With the tabarine tamtammers of the whirligigmagees. Beats that cachucha flat. Hold him here, Ezekiel Irons, and may God strengthen you! You swamped enough since Portobello to float the Pomeroy.

Fetch neahere, Pat Koy! And fetch nouyou, Pam Yates! Be nayther angst of Wramawitch! Where misties swaddlum, where misches lodge none, where mystries pour kind on, O sleepy! Assure a sure there! And we put on your clock again, sir, for you. Nor shed your remnants. I seen your missus in the hall. You storyan Harry chap longa me Harry chap storyan grass woman plelthy good trout. Or while waiting for winter to fire the enchantement, decoying more nesters to fall down the flue.

If you only were there to explain the meaning, best of men, and talk to her nice of guldenselver. The lips would moisten once again. As when you drove with her to Findrinny Fair. To see is it smarts, full lengths or swaggers. News, news, all the news. Death, a leopard, kills fellah in Fez.

Angry scenes at Stormount. Stilla Star with her lucky in goingaways. Opportunity fair with the China floods and we hear these rosy rumours. Ding Tams he noise about all same Harry chap. Till track laws time. No silver ash or switches for that one!