Doris Buchanan Smith

En esta novela el nino Jamie muere y su mejor amigo tiene que encarar solo la tragedia. A young boy recounts his efforts to adjust to the accidental death of his best friend.

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.

A young boy recounts his efforts to adjust to the accidental death of his friend

“The writing is as crisp, honest, wry, tough and tender as is Chauncey himself--a charming, gusty book with a moral: you don’t have to be ‘pushed around like a leaf in from of a rake,’ you can determine your own shape and direction.”--N.Y. Times. “The characterization is convincing, the writing style solid; the story is grim but strong.”--Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books

Kelly’s Creek (1975) deals with the social and educational problems of nine-year-old Kelly O’Brian. Handicapped by dyslexia, Kelly had to repeat first grade. Now in the third grade, not only is he considered slow and stupid by regular classmates, but he is also behind the others in the special class he is attending. Kelly finds school to be uncongenial, and his stern parents are disappointed. His father, who would like a son who could play ball and be a scout, is especially frustrated because Kelly prefers to dabble in the creek in their backyard in Brunswick, Georgia. Kelly’s interest in the tidal creek and his friendship with Phillip, a junior college student who is doing marine research, do provide him an educational outlet, though. Phillip teaches Kelly to identify the wildlife, especially various kinds of fiddler crabs. When he reports successfully on this subject to his regular class, they recognize that he is not really slow, and he regains briefly the friendship of Zack, with whom he used to play. Both the biological description of the fertile marsh life and the sterile therapeutic exercises that Kelly must repeat to overcome dyslexia are authentically detailed. The descriptions of his thoughts, which often focus on fantasy, are well done, and the simple black-and-white pen-and-ink illustrations by Alan Tiegreen reflect the realism of the story and the isolation of Kelly.

Junior Library Guild selection: 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.

Passionate about karate, fourteen-year-old Troy tries to convince his disapproving parents about the true nature of the art and its importance in his life. [Karate; Parent and child] ISBN 0-399-21464

A friendless, overweight 12-year-old with an overprotective mother begins to change the monotonous pattern of his life.

A shy fifteen-year-old girl, more at ease on the sports field than anywhere else, tries to cope with new feelings and a gradual understanding of herself, her divorced parents, and other people around her.

A mountain family with adopted children and a dog must learn to deal with their new neighbors, who bring some "modern" changes to their mountain home. Greg and Moonshadow, his black Labrador Retriever, have lived on Cherry Mountain for six years, ever since they were adopted by the Rileys. They both love roaming the mountain, drinking from its crystal-clear streams and searching for wildlife. The two are inseparable. That is, until Clara is adopted into the family. Greg and Moonshadow are initially delighted to have another family member. However, when Clara’s allergies force Moonshadow from the house, both boy and dog must deal with their feelings of resentment toward the newcomer.

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.

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. “Once again Doris Buchanan Smith handles deeply troubling problems...with verve and uncommon understanding.” -- Kirkus Reviews

Growing up is not quite so easy as she'd expected for a teenage girl in a small Georgia town.

Twelve-year-old John-too is dismayed when his grandmother, who has come to live with his family, begins to experience increasing incidents of confusion and memory loss.

A high school track star struggles to find himself in the weeks just before graduation.

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.