A Grateful Harvest

Author	Richard Peck
ISBN	0142300705

Mary Alice remembers childhood summers packed with drama. At fifteen, she faces a whole long year with Grandma Dowdel, well known for shaking up her neighbors-and everyone else. All Mary Alice can know for certain is this: when trying to predict how life with Grandma might turn out . . . better not.



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Author	Brenda Woods
ISBN	0142501514

On her tenth birthday, Leah receives a surprise gift from glamorous Aunt Olivia, Mama's only sister, who lives in Los Angeles.  It is a red rose box.  Not many people in 1958 Louisiana have seen such a beautiful traveling case, covered with red roses, filled with jewelry, silk bedclothes, expensive...

Author	Richard Peck
ISBN	0142401102

"I don't think Grandma's a very good influence on us," Mary Alice said.

Every August, Joey Dowdel and his kid sister Mary Alice spend a week at their Granny's house.

She was so big and the town was so small. She was old too, or so we thought -- old as the hills. And tough! She was tough as an...

Author	Sonia Levitin
ISBN	0689711301

It was 1938, and something terrible was happening in Germany. Suddenly, there were more and more restrictions for the Jews: yellow stars they had to wear, schools they could not attend, things they were forbidden to do. The Nazis were in power. And Lisa Platt was scared.

Her father knew they...

Author	Barbara Williams
ISBN	0590944649

"Titanic Crossing" is a story about a 13 year old boy named Albert Trask, who is going back to America so he and his family can be closer to Alberts grandmother. Mrs. Trask and little Virginia don't want to leave. But when Albert and Virginia's uncle comes to London, they are left with no choice. Albert is...

Author	Irene N. Watts
ISBN	0887769713

A story of reliance and resilience.Did you call out to us, Johnny, before your small body was dragged down under the water? Why didn't we hear you? I am sorry! I'll never forget.

Louisa Gardener is the fourteen-year-old nursemaid to the young daughters of a wealthy, titled family living in London,...

Author	Mindy Warshaw Skolsky
ISBN	0064407462

Hannah's best friend, Aggie, moves away and doesn't answer a single one of her letters. Determined to find a new pen pal, Hannah picks an address from a box on her teacher's desk. It's a boy, but his first letter is so dopey, Hannah isn't even going to answer it. Instead, she writes to President Roosevelt....

Author	Julie Lawson
ISBN	1443100412

Where’s Michael?
Has his body been taken by the sea?
What have you done, robber of the dead?

Kevin gagged with fear, his heart pounding in his throat. The girl was close enough for him to see her pale face, her wide, searching eyes. She was blaming him. Her arms reached out towards him....