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Frances O'Roark Dowell
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…
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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…
A sixth-grade class comes together to support a classmate in need, each of them giving their own perspective on the goings on –
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…
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Keenly insightful and poignantly hopeful, this novel explores the shifting terrain of the friendship of sixth-graders Kate and Marylin, capturing the awkward dance of two best friends trying to find…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
From Frances O'Roark Dowell, the author of Birds in the Air, comes Margaret Goes Modern, a touching, big-hearted collection of short stories about women whose lives revolve around family, friends…
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An instructional book on how to write [fiction] from bestselling author Frances O'Roark Dowell –
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 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 the Man is not a vegetable man. But when a school project has him paired up with the worst of all the vegetables–the rutabaga– he soon will learn that…
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…
