Holden Harris has autism and is a great high school student. Holden is 18 years old and being bullied by the high school football team. Holden is happy, healthy, and loves music. The childhood friend of Ella Reynolds is a cheerleader, she is dating the popular football player, and she also sings in the play. Ella is realizing somehow she knows Holden and she saw him being picked on by the football team one day. Will Ella Reynolds take a stand and what will happen to Holden? Can she be strong and courageous?
Nothing will deter persistent, inquisitive Mary Sutter from realizing her dream of becoming a surgeon. Already a skilled midwife but with no immediate prospect of being apprenticed as a surgeon, Mary leaves home to nurse the wounded at the outbreak of the Civil War.
Although a sequel to The Drowning City, The Bone Palace stands alone quite well. It's a dark, political, high fantasy mystery told from two perspectives: Crown Investigator and n
This non-fiction historical novel follows the story of four sisters, Marianne, Bess, Louis and Emily, the descendants of a prominent family of early Maryland settlers. The daughters exceeded their mother’s expectations to “marry plantation” and actually became members of Queen Victoria’s court. They were granddaughters of Charles Carroll of Carrollton, one of the sig
When the recent British royal wedding occupied the air waves, everybody seemed interested in “everything British” once again. There was a great deal of excitement over how a Prince fell in love with and married a Commoner, and America once again became fascinated with English royalty.
Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen. Two sisters, a baby and a five year old, are left by their mother at their Grandmother’s house. The house they lived in had a very special garden in back and grandma taught the eldest how to cook with the herbs and flowers that grew there.
My admiration for this book is inversely proportionate to my skepticism upon hearing of it. I’ve seen books with the same concept, but this one is superior in that it helps you determine your particular body type, which will be one of 48 shapes.
Ptolemy Grey is passing his days with ghosts from his past, each distant memory taking him further from the living. But soon his life changes. After he meets seventeen year old Robyn, he discovers an unusual opportunity to rejuvenate his failing memory that gives him one last chance to make a difference in a world he recognizes he’ll soon be leaving.
There really isn't anything better than a good zombie story. I can't tell you how many times I have lost myself in the story of the undead plague. I think of this as research for the future. It preparation for the inevitable. I have my escape all planned out (and no I won't tell you my plans!), have you throught about packing your outbreak bag and figuring out where you will go? Maybe you should read some of these books and figure it out!
