Jimmy Gownley’s protagonist Amelia is a nine-year-old girl living with her mother in a small northeastern town in Pennsylvania after the divorce of her parents. (Amelia’s parents are to be commended for keeping an amiable relationship following the break-up of their...
Oh, my! I just finished reading the just-published One Cool Friend by Maine’s own Toni Buzzeo, illustrated by Caldecott Medalist David Small. This wonderfully silly tale of a very proper young boy named Elliot and his surreptitious acquisition of a pet penguin is a...
Scotty thinks it is just another New England winter day in school. His first basketball game is that night and he is a sophomore playing on varsity and he is pumped up and ready to play. What starts out as a typical snow storm soon turns in to near blizzard...
Clara has just ended her relationship with Christian, who is pathologically possessive. But Christian can’t let go and keeps calling and trying to see her. Clara’s fear grows and things escalate out of control so Clara’s father takes her off to a quiet coastal town...
Ella attends the Willing School on scholarship where she is invisible to most people. Frankie and Sadie are her best friends and she has fallen in love with Edward Willing a 19th century painter (who is dead) and has his picture hanging in her bedroom. Ella loves her...
