Sara Louise Bradshaw is sick and tired of her beautiful twin Caroline. Ever since they were born, Caroline has been the pretty one, the talented one, the better sister. Ev...
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In the tradition of Out of My Mind, Wonder, and Mockingbird, this is an intensely moving middle grade novel about being an outsider, coping with loss, and discovering the ...
This novel, written in diary form, tells of "a pivotal year for 19th-century New Englander Catherine Cabot Hill--one of change, loss, and leave taking . . . a low-key, int...
Growing up in the shadows cast by two world wars, Annabelle has lived a mostly quiet, steady life in her small Pennsylvania town. Until the day new student Betty Glengarry...
Today I moved to a twelve-acre rock covered with cement, topped with bird turd and surrounded by water. I'm not the only kid who lives here. There's my sister, Natalie, ex...
Enter the scandalous world of "Gossip Girl" - a world inhabited by the city's most fabulous crowd; a world of jealousy, betrayal, and naughty pictures on the sides of buses.
A powerfully moving novel from a three-time Newbery Honor-winning author
Evie Thomas is not who she used to be. Once she had a best friend, a happy home and a loving gran...
When Belle Prater disappears, Belle’s boy, Woodrow, comes to live with his grandparents in Coal Station, Virginia. Woodrow’s cousin Gypsy is the town beauty, but she has h...
"If your teacher has to die, August isn't a bad time of the year for it," says Russell Culver, fifteen, who's raring to light our for the endless skies of the Dakotas to j...
Growing up on Chicago’s South Side in the 1960s, Eddie Ryan is learning a lot—and not just from the Brothers at his all-boys Catholic high school. Eddie’s world is populat...
The eccentric, larger-than-life Grandma Dowdel is back in this heart-warming tale. Set 20 years after the events of A Year Down Yonder, it is now 1958 and a new family has...
Вот уже тридцать лет Элис Манро называют лучшим в мире автором коротких рассказов, но к российскому читателю ее книги приходят только теперь, после того, как писательница ...
В книге современной афро-американской писательницы рассказывается о негритянской семье Логанов, живущей в южном Штате Миссури. Повествование ведется от лица одиннадцатилет...
Правдивая и увлекательная повесть современной американской писательницы о негритянской семье. Действие происходит в 30-е годы, однако проблемы, которые в ней раскрываются,...
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry is a 1976 children's novel by Mildred D. Taylor, sequel to her 1975 Song of the Trees.
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry was first published in...
Мировая известность пришла к американской писательнице Гарриет Бичер-Стоу после опубликования романа "Хижина дяди Тома". Бичер-Стоу с поразительной яркостью обрисовала бес...
Published in 1975, Ragtime changed our very concept of what a novel could be. An extraordinary tapestry, Ragtime captures the spirit of America in the era between the turn...
The Magnificent Ambersons chronicles the changing fortunes of three generations of an American dynasty. The protagonist of Booth Tarkington's great historical drama is Geo...
"Шестого декабря тысяча девятьсот семьдесят третьего года, когда меня убили, мне было четырнадцать лет" - так начинается самый поразительный бестселлер начала XXI века, тр...
