Laurie Halse Anderson

"As the Revolutionary War rages on, Isabel and Curzon are reported as runaways, and the awful Bellingham is determined to track them down. With purpose and faith, Isabel and Curzon march on, fiercely determined to find Isabel's little sister Ruth, who is enslaved in a Southern state"--

Zoe is a volunteer at her Grandmother's vet clinic. One day a flock of parrots shows up in their backyard. Are they wild? How will they survive?

Zoe is a volunteer at her Grandmother's vet clinic. One day a flock of parrots shows up in their backyard. Are they wild? How will they survive?

Each of these exciting stories, told in the voice of one of the 11-year-old volunteers at the Wild at Heart Animal Clinic, offers a first-hand account of animal emergencies and rescues. This series is sure to win the hearts of readers who are wild about animals!The clinic is swamped with sick and abused puppies. Maggie suspects they've come from an illegal puppy mill, and she's determined to find it and shut it down. But Gran has too many other things to worry about -- like Maggie's grades and a new houseguest, Zoe. Can Maggie find the puppy mill on her own?

For the past five years Hayley Kincain and her father, Andy, have been on the road, never staying long in one place as he struggles to escape the demons that have tortured him since his return from Iraq. Now they are back in town where he grew up so Hayley can go to a proper school. Perhaps, for the first time, Hayley can have a normal life, put aside her own painful memories, even have a relationship with Finn, the hot guy who obviously likes her but is hiding secrets of his own. Will being back home help Andy's PTSD, or will his terrible memories drag him to the edge of hell, and drugs push him over?

Sophie aime tellement les animaux qu'elle passe tout son temps libre à la clinique vétérinaire de sa grand-mère, le Dr Mac. C'est son « monde à elle. » Elle voit donc d'un très mauvais oeil l'arrivée de trois nouveaux bénévoles de son âge : Isabelle, David et Anita. Elle a l'impression qu'ils lui prennent sa place. Pour couronner le tout, sa peste de cousine vient s'installer chez elle ! Sophie est furieuse et déboussolée. Mais, à ce moment, une portée de chiots atteints d'une étrange maladie débarque à la clinique. Sophie se doute vite de quelque chose et mène l'enquête... avec ses nouveaux amis !

Seeing Jane's dog, Yum-Yum, help cheer up children in a cancer ward makes Zoe think about having her puppy, Sneakers, trained to do therapy, too, especially when Yum-Yum becomes very ill.

It's late summer 1793, and the streets of Philadelphia are abuzz with mosquitoes and rumors of fever. Down near the docks, many have taken ill, and the fatalities are mounting. Now they include Polly, the serving girl at the Cook Coffeehouse. But fourteen-year-old Mattie Cook doesn't get a moment to mourn the passing of her childhood playmate. New customers have overrun her family's coffee shop, located far from the mosquito-infested river, and Mattie's concerns of fever are all but overshadowed by dreams of growing her family's small business into a thriving enterprise. But when the fever begins to strike closer to home, Mattie's struggle to build a new life must give way to a new fight—the fight to stay alive.

A hurricane hits Ambler, leaving Lucy -- a diabetic cat that Sunita sits for -- stranded in a flood. Can Sunita overcome her fear of water and swim to her rescue?

A Kenyan girl runs past the thatch-covered homes in her village, up the hillside, through the grassland, by the water hole, on her way to school.

It is a dark and sexy night......when business manager Natalie Brighton arrives at her employer's remote mountain castle. With a reputation almost as scandalous as the exotic, forbidden nature of his paintings, John Sartain indulges his sensuality...something she can't resist any more than she can resist him. But someone is trying to discredit him—a threat that could cost her this job. Worse, Natalie finds herself in the increasingly sinister hands of someone who might wish her real harm. Lascivious games, secrets and sensuous desires... Is it just a part of Sartain's seductive world, or is Natalie setting herself up for the ultimate fall?

"Speak up for yourself--we want to know what you have to say." From the first moment of her freshman year at Merryweather High, Melinda knows this is a big fat lie, part of the nonsense of high school. She is friendless, outcast, because she busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops, so now nobody will talk to her, let alone listen to her. As time passes, she becomes increasingly isolated and practically stops talking altogether. Only her art class offers any solace, and it is through her work on an art project that she is finally able to face what really happened at that terrible party: she was raped by an upperclassman, a guy who still attends Merryweather and is still a threat to her. Her healing process has just begun when she has another violent encounter with him. But this time Melinda fights back, refuses to be silent, and thereby achieves a measure of vindication. In Laurie Halse Anderson's powerful novel, an utterly believable heroine with a bitterly ironic voice delivers a blow to the hypocritical world of high school. She speaks for many a disenfranchised teenager while demonstrating the importance of speaking up for oneself.

While running from a bully, Kaslin leaps into a cave, slides down a slippery slope, and enters a world ruled by an alien intelligence.

Recently widowed March Cantrell must deal with her husband's death while trying to escape the constant interference from her well meaning grown-up children. All her children, that is, apart from Molly. March discovers that the new man she's dating, Spider Olsen, is much older than her daughter - and believes the relationship is doomed to failure. However, any attempt to talk to Molly only drives them further apart. Meanwhile, March's sons are fighting for control of the family business. In order to heal the growing rifts between them all, the family decides to spend Christmas at their mountain home in Lake Tahoe. But whilst out skiing, March finds herself stranded with a young man called Rio and is surprised to discover that she is attracted to him ...

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Speak up for yourself―we want to know what you have to say." From the first moment of her freshman year at Merryweather High, Melinda knows this is a big fat lie, part of the nonsense of high school. She is friendless―an outcast―because she busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops, so now nobody will talk to her, let alone listen to her. Through her work on an art project, she is finally able to face what really happened that night: She was raped by an upperclassman, a guy who still attends Merryweather and is still a threat to her.

Separated from his friend Isabel after their daring escape from slavery, fifteen-year-old Curzon serves as a free man in the Continental Army at Valley Forge until he and Isabel are thrown together again, as slaves once more.