Louise Hawes
Author
Language
English
Description
In lush, glowing prose, Louise Hawes's historical novel draws readers into the life and art of sixteenth-century Bologna with a compelling account of Lavinia Fontana, arguably the most famous female painter of the Italian Renaissance. Here readers will find a coming-of-age story filled with quest, complication, and catastrophe as well as miracles and hope. Although the novel is set four hundred years ago, the hard choices it involves speak to all...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sarah is forced to take a summer poetry class as penance for trashing the home of a famous poet, in this fresh novel about finding your own voice. Sarah has had her happy ending: she is at the party of the year with the most popular boy in school. But when that boy turns out to be a troublemaker who decided to throw a party at a cottage museum dedicated to renowned poet Rufus Baylor, everything changes. By the end of the party, the whole cottage...
3) Big Rig
Author
Language
English
Description
Hitch a ride with eleven-year-old Hazmat and her dad in their eighteen-wheeler, Leonardo, for a feel-good road trip across America that keeps on trucking!
Life on the road with Daddy is as good as gets for Hazmat. Together, they've been taking jobs and crisscrossing the US for years. Now Daddy's talking about putting down roots-somewhere Hazmat can go to a real school and make friends. Somewhere Daddy doesn't have to mail-order textbooks about "nature's...
Author
Publisher
Walker
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Unable to accept the sudden death of his Japanese American girlfriend Rosey, seventeen-year-old Franklin finds that she has come back to him as a spirit and eventually realizes that he must let her go.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Shortly after moving with her mother to Florida, a lonely, fourteen-year-old bibliophile is reminded of her infant brother who died and decides to care for an abused, abandoned child with help from a new friend.