Kate O'Shaughnessy
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
"Twelve-year-old Fern believes she's living a noble life--but what if everything she's been told is a lie?...Fern’s lived at the Ranch, an off-the-grid, sustainable community in upstate New York, since she was six. The work is hard, but Fern admires the Ranch's leader, Dr. Ben. So when Fern’s mother sneaks them away in the middle of the night and says Dr. Ben is dangerous, Fern doesn't believe it. She wants desperately to go back, but her mom...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Formats
Description
When eleven-year-old foster kid Mo finds a handmade cookbook filled with someone else's family recipes, she collects the stories behind them and builds a website to share them, secretly hoping a long-lost relative will find her and give her a family recipe all her own.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Eleven-year-old Maybelle Lane collects sounds. She records the Louisiana crickets chirping, Momma strumming her guitar, their broken trailer door squeaking. But the crown jewel of her collection is a sound she didn't collect herself: an old recording of her daddy's warm-sunshine laugh, saved on an old phone's voicemail. It's the only thing she has of his, and the only thing she knows about him. Until the day she hears that laugh--his laugh--pouring...