Candice F. Ransom

When feisty twelve-year-old Rebel McKenzie, an aspiring paleontologist, goes to spend the summer taking care of her older sister's seven-year-old son at the mobile home park in Frog Level, Virginia, she never expects to enter a beauty pageant or meet a hand model.

When his friend, Floyd Collins, becomes trapped in a cave in Kentucky in 1925, ten-year-old Arly places himself in great danger while trying to help with the rescue operation.

A spellbinding tale of contemporary suspense that begins with a mysterious homecoming and ends in a shattering explosion of passion, greed, and murder. And all because a stranger says her name is... Amanda.Others have claimed to be Amanda Daulton, but now a beautiful, self-assured woman has stepped out of the shadows of the past, insisting she's the missing heiress to a multimillion-dollar fortune. One look is all it takes to assure the family patriarch that she's his beloved granddaughter. But others at the magnificent Southern mansion called Glory are not as easily convinced, others with much to lose from her sudden reappearance. Soon suspicion erupts in a chilling attempt on her life, and after the traumatic ordeal, she begins to have flashes of a nightmarish vision. What, if anything, happened twenty years ago to drive a mother and her nine-year-old daughter away from their privileged life? The struggle to find the elusive answer exposes a frightening trail of secrets--a trail that leads shockingly to the present and to the enigmatic woman who calls herself... Amanda.From the Paperback edition.

Examines the life of the marine biologist and science writer whose book "Silent Spring" changed the way we look at pesticides.

A newly-single woman revisits the poor choices she had made throughout her life, returning to the small town in western Canada where she grew up and lived through the violent death of a close friend in an unsolved hit-and-run accident. Frances Moon, newly single, revisits the poor choices she had made throughout her life. As a young woman she had found comfort in two other outsiders, but the violent death of a close friend in an unsolved hit-and-run accident led her to leave the town and her husband. She had built a new life-- until in the churchyard of a small Irish town it all comes sweeping back, and she returns to the small town in western Canada where she grew up

When her older sister gets a summer job at a local amusement park, thirteen-year-old Jackie feels left out until she develops a crush on the boy who runs the pony rides, and who, unfortunately thinks her sister is perfect.

In 1896, ten-year-old Sam Deal and Ginger, the wild horse he has tamed, assist an all-Black lifesaving crew as they attempt to rescue survivors of a shipwreck off North Carolina's Outer Banks.

A brief biography of Daniel Boone, from his early years in Pennsylvania and Virginia through his exploration of land in Tennessee and Kentucky and later life in Missouri.

Sam Deal and his horse, Ginger, help an African-American lifesaving crew rescue shipwreck victims off the coast of North Carolina in 1896.

When her mother remarries, eight-year-old Cammie feels awkward with her new stepfather and being part of a new large family.

Third grader Amber experiences jealousy of her friend Delight, a longing to recapture her lost popularity, and a new passion for gymnastics.

Who doesn't love to go apple picking at the first sign of fall? A sister and brother celebrate autumn with a trip to a local apple orchard in this simple, rhyming Step 1 early reader.

Tyler James moves from New York City to a small town on the Chesapeake Bay and becomes involved in the strange mystery surrounding a deserted merry-go-round.