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Australian Book Retailer of the Year 2021
Caroline B Cooney
Originally published: New York: Delacorte Press, 2001.
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The Finch family did not know that five refugees landed from Africa on the day they went to the airport to welcome the family sponsored by their church. Soon Jared…
Caroline B. Cooney
Anaxandra is taken from her birth island at age 6 by King Nicander to be a companion to his crippled daughter, Princess Callisto. Six years later, her new island is…
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Wishing to be more like her dead identical twin–pretty, popular, and loved by her boyfriend–Mary Lee steps into the shoes of her sister, Madrigal, and discovers a horrible legacy of…
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Three teenagers’ lives are changed forever when they thoughtlessly steal a stop sign from a dangerous intersection and a young mother is killed in an automobile accident there.
This young adult thriller by an award-winning author takes place in 24 hours and explores how people as well as the media can exploit a situation with devastating results, especially…
After her parents’ divorce, Lily’s younger brother, Michael, goes to live with his father. Then, one day Michael calls her from the Baltimore-Washington Airport where their father has abandoned him…
She thought she had left that life behind forever. She was wrong.
1964: Christaphine is twenty years old, newly married, and determined to make a home and a life for…
Originally published in hardcover in 2011.
No one ever really paid close attention to the faces of the missing children on the milk cartons. But as Janie Johnson glances at the face of the ordinary little…
A teenage girl is confronted by a classmate who says that she bears an uncanny resemblance to his cousin, who was taken away by social services five years ago. Her…
Diana and Seth are naive volunteers in the emergency room. Both are struggling to find their roles in the dizzying world of excitement and horror in the City Hospital Emergency…
Includes a reading group guide and a discussion with the author.
A murder mystery in a small town raises suspicions when a member of a well-regarded family in the community is implicated –
Drawn to Jethro from the moment she first sees him, Nicoletta is unaware that the seemingly ordinary teenage boy she has fallen for has a monstrous side to his nature.
Christina’s schoolmates begin acting strangely after moving into the Shevingtons’ boarding house, and no one except her believes that the Shevingtons are somehow behind it, especially when Christina starts exhibiting…
New Yorker Mitty Blake is late getting started on his advanced bio report on infectious diseases. After he finds some old medical books in his family’s weekend house, he discovers…
In this riveting and emotional conclusion to the thriller-romance Janie series, that started withThe Face on the Milk Carton,all will be revealed as readers find out if Janie and Reeve’s…
The follow-up to Whatever Happened to Janie? The kidnapping is long past, and the Johnsons and the Springs are on the way to restoring their lives. As Janie tries to…
In this riveting, heartrending story by thriller author Cooney, the truth changes the lives of three families–as the bonds of blood must withstand the strains of long-hidden secrets that are…
The gripping sequel to The Face on the Milk Carton. With the mystery of her kidnapping now unraveled, Janie’s story continues, and the nightmare is not over. No one can…
Sixteen-year-old Laura, an American living in London, tries to find the person responsible for the death of her younger brother Billy, who has been killed by a terrorist bomb.
Janie Johnson’s two families appear to have made peace. Life seems almost normal. Janie has even decided to speak to her former boyfriend, Reeve, again. But then Janie’s Connecticut father…
Freeze tag with Lannie is no ordinary game, because when she tags someone they really do freeze. They could even freeze to death.
It’s been four years since Rose spent the weekend at Angelica’s summer home and things went terribly wrong, but now that the police have reopened the murder case, Rose must…
When Kit’s ex-stepmother thrusts a baby into her arms and speeds away, Kit’s world is turned upside-down. Now she must save herself and the baby from the crazy, desperate people…
I’m Going to Give You a Bear Hug!, written by bestselling author Caroline B. Cooney and illustrated by Tim Warnes, is a playful and comforting bedtime book that imagines all…
I’m Going to Give You a Bear Hug!, written by New York Times bestselling author Caroline B. Cooney and illustrated by Tim Warnes, is a playful and comforting bedtime board…
I’m Going to Give You a Polar Bear Hug, written by bestselling author Caroline B. Cooney and illustrated by Tim Warnes, imagines all the cozy, warm hugs a child might…
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I’m Going to Give You a Bear Hug!, written by bestselling author Caroline B. Cooney, is a playful and comforting bedtime book that imagines all the wonderful ways a child…
1964: Christaphine is twenty years old, newly married, and determined to make a home and a life for her and her husband, Tommy. But when Christaphine discovers Tommy and his…
