Friday, November 28th, 2008

A Perfect Gentle Knight by Kit Pearson

Since their mother’s death, three years before, eleven year-old Corrie and her five brothers and sisters have had only one another to hold onto. Lost in his classes and his research and his book, their professor father seems largely oblivious to them, the sad state of the house and garden, and the terrible meals [...]

Friday, January 11th, 2008

Tom Finder by Martine Leavitt

The first thing Tom remembers is walking, his back and backside screaming in pain. He has forgotten everything that came before, family, friends, school, his last name. In his backpack he finds a notebook with notes about Mozart and a candy heart imprinted with the words You are nice, so he concludes that [...]

Friday, April 6th, 2007

Kat’s Fall by Shelley Hrdlitschka

Estranged from his mother, neglected by his truck-driver father, and entirely responsible for his eleven year-old deaf sister, Kat, fifteen year-old Darcy struggles to cope with almost overwhelming emotional pain. Despite the efforts of his teacher, Ms. Rose, at the alternative school where he’s been sent because of his unwillingness – or inability – [...]