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Frances O'Roark Dowell
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In the segregated south of Kentucky in 1953, twelve-year-olds Callie, who’s black, and Wendell, who’s white, are brought together by an old dog that’s clearly seeking something or someone, but…
A sixth-grade class comes together to support a classmate in need, each of them giving their own perspective on the goings on –
From the Edgar Award-winning author of Dovey Coe comes this story of 12-year old Maddie, a foster child who can’t stop looking for a home. When Maddie shows a new…
Can one mistake destroy the chance of a lifetime? From the author of Dovey Coe comes the story of a girl who discovers there are many ways of being trueNa…
In what Marianne Fons calls a truly enjoyable read about the power of quilts to connect, heal, and restore the soul, award-winning author Frances O'Roark Dowell (Dovey Coe, The Secret…
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In the segregated south of Kentucky in 1953, twelve-year-olds Callie, who is black, and Wendell, who is white, are brought together by an old dog that is clearly seeking something…
Phineas has a new chore of cooking dinner every night, but his kitchen experiments take a turn for the worse when the school bully takes a huge liking to Phineas’s…
An award-winning author returns to modern middle-grade fiction to tell the rousing, spirited story of a girl who is being bullied, a discharged soldier with PTSD, and the ancient, mysterious…
When accused of murder in her North Carolina mountain town in 1928, Dovey Coe, a strong-willed 12-year-old girl, comes to a new understanding of others, including her deaf brother.
A kid filled with rage, suspended from the football team for unsportsmanlike conduct, and his father, newly home from the war in Afghanistan, reckon with the injuries they've caused to…
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A kid filled with rage, kicked off the football team for unsportsmanlike conduct, and his father, newly home from the war in Afghanistan, reckon with the injuries they’ve caused to…
Like Alice through the looking glass, Isabelle Bean finds herself in a parallel universe, where she’s mistaken for a witch, then finds out her grandmother is a witch.
An instructional book on how to write [fiction] from bestselling author Frances O'Roark Dowell –
When seven-year-old Sam Graham, eager for some spending money, volunteers to look after a neighbor’s chickens, the experience inspires him to get his own chicken–a special bird named Helga.
Sam Graham recruits his best friend Gavin and a couple of their classmates to form a detective club. However, there are no cases to solve! So, Sam suggests they take…
Second-grader Sam starts a detective club at school and, because there are no mysteries to solve, gets permission to seek the owners of three items from the lost and found…
Second-grader Sam Graham wants a cell phone to do research and share information but when his parents say no, he devises a new plan that starts a fad at school.
When the family minivan needs replacing, Sam has the perfect plan to turn the new car into a monster minivan, complete with a dragon painted on it. But first, Sam…
