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Much
Ado About Grubstake Harcourt 2006 Grubstake is a grubby down-on-its-luck mining town filled with grubby down-on-their-luck miners. So when a decidedly nongrubby city slicker shows up and offers to buy the tapped-out mines, the miners are sorely tempted. But not Arley, the brash sixteen-year-old girl who runs the boardinghouse. No, Arley smells a rat. What could some fancy-britches rascal want with empty mines? Is there more in those desolate pits than the Grubs realize? |
Nominee 2008/2009 Children's Choice Award, Missouri Assn. of School Librarians |
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ONCE
UPON A MARIGOLD Harcourt 2002 |
Arizona Young Reader Award for 2007 2006 Nevada Young Readers' Award, Intermediate Category Award nominee 2006 Minnesota Maud Hart Lovelace Award nominee 2006 Connecticut Nutmeg Book Award nominee  2005 ALA Popular Paperbacks List. 2004-2005 Garden State Teen Book Award 2004-2005 South Carolina Junior Book Award nominee 2004 Kansas White List 2004 Utah Beehive Book Award nominee 2003-2004 Maryland Black-eyed Susan Book Award nominee 2003-2004 Missouri Gateway Readers' Choice Award for Teens nominee 2003-2004 Colorado Blue Spruce Award nominee 2003 New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age List 2002-2003 Vermont Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award Master List 2003 South Dakota Young Adult Reading Program Reading List 2003 VOYA Top Shelf Fiction for Middle School Readers 2002 ALA Best Books for Young Adults List 2002 ALA Notable Books List 2002 Junior Library Guild selection |
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EIGHT SECONDS Harcourt
2000 John's week at rodeo school gives him a break from his demanding family and a friendship with Kit, an outstanding bull-rider, who is everthing John wants to be... until he discovers Kit is gay. |
EIGHT SECONDS Harcourt 2000 |
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BAD
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1998 After participating in a convenience store robbery, Dallas finds herself in a juvenile detention facility where, surrounded by conflicting influences, she must make choices which will affect the rest of her life. |
NCSS-CBC Notable Children's Trade
Book in the Field of Social Studies 1999 |
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LOVE AMONG THE
WALNUTS Harcourt 1998 Born and raised in isolation in a wealthy, eccentric family, Sandy is shocked when he, his parents, and their servants become victims of a vicious plot by his greedy uncles to incapacitate them and take their money. |
ALA Best Books for Young Adults 1999 ALA 1999 Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers National Book Award nominee 1998 Young Adult Library Services Assn. Best Books for Young Adults list 1999 Amazon.com 1999 Teens Top Ten Best Books |
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ALL THAT GLITTERS Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1996 Brian must spend the summer with
his estranged father working on an underwater archeological expedition searching for a
sunken Spanish galleon. Further complications result from his friendship with a
fascinating girl diver. |
Nominated for Oklahoma Sequoyah Book Award Texas Library Assn. YA Reading List 1997-98 Nominated for Virginia Young Reader Award 1998-99 Junior Library Guild selection 1996 |
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LOOKING FOR HOME Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1991 When Daphine discovers she's pregnant, her only choice is to run away from home. An unlikely group of people help her make the hardest decision of her life. |
An IRA Young Adult Choice for 1991 Nominated for Virginia Young Reader Award 1992-93 Nominated for Iowa Teen Award 1992-93 |
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ACROSS THE GRAIN Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1990
After Will's flaky sister drags them off to live in the desert, he finds that that barren place offers riches in romance and accomplishment (he builds a house with a lonely man) as he finds the courage to forge his own life. |
An ALA Best Book for Young Adults California Young Reader Medal Nominee 1992-93 |
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AMEN, MOSES GARDENIA Farrar, Straus
and Giroux 1983 In spite of Farrell's relationship with the boy of her dreams, her distant family drives her to the edge of suicide. Earl Mae, the family's maid, is the only safe place she has to go.
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THE STAINLESS STEEL RULE
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1986 Fran, Mary and Kitty have been inseparable friends until Mary becomes involved with a boy Fran and Kitty believe is no good for her. Mary's refusal to listen to them has serious consequences for Mary and for the friendship. |
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INVINCIBLE SUMMER Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1987 When Rick and Robin meet in the hospital where they are both being treated for cancer, they find a love that is completely unexpected and which must celebrate life at the same time that it endures pain and anticipates loss. |
An ALA Best Book for Young Adults A Booklist Young Adult Editors' Choice A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year |
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RELATIVE STRANGERS Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1993 When Berkeley accepts a trip to Europe as a graduation present from her long-absent father, she doesn't realize she'll be traveling with his new wife and step-daughter. Many surprises follow making her grateful to cross paths in London and Paris with Spike Sullivan, a friend-- and maybe more-- from home. |
Nominated for Utah Children's Book Award 1994-95 Nominated for South Carolina Young Adult Book Award 1994-95 |
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SIGNS OF LIFE Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1995 Hannah's grief over her twin sister's death is moderated during a trip to the prehistoric caves of France by her friendship with a boy from a Gypsy circus and his performing pig. |
Junior Library Guild selection 1995 |
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INTO THE WIND Avon 1996 A trilogy chronicling the adventures of a sheltered girl who becomes involved with a dashing privateer with a secret past and an obsessive quest during the sea battles of the The War of 1812. (BOOK ONE) |
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SONG OF THE SEA Avon 1996 A trilogy chronicling the adventures of a sheltered girl who becomes involved with a dashing privateer with a secret past and an obsessive quest during the sea battles of the The War of 1812. (BOOK TWO) |
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WEATHER THE STORM Avon 1996 A trilogy chronicling the adventures of a sheltered girl who becomes involved with a dashing privteer with a secret past and an obsessive quest during the sea battles of the The War of 1812. (BOOK THREE) |
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