by Katy Manck | Jul 6, 2011 | Chick Lit
Moving? Mom doesn’t realize how hard it is for 13 year-old Mari to leave behind her best friend and start over. Again! Or that “pajama day” was last week, not on Mari’s first day at her new junior high school. Or how her “performance art” embarrasses Marigold and...
by Katy Manck | Jun 30, 2011 | Science Fiction
A flower? Kira wonders how a non-food plant survived the pollution and planetary drought that are killing humanity. In her desperation to keep the flower alive, Kira discovers that she can bring water to the ground with her fingertip! When Matron finds the flower and...
by Katy Manck | Jun 16, 2011 | Paranormal
Ever-drawn to the ocean, Lena wants to learn to surf with her friends. But her father forbids it, reminding her of his near-drowning as a championship surfer years ago, and her stepmom agrees with him. If only her mother were still alive to take Lena’s side in this...
by Katy Manck | Jun 13, 2011 | Fiction
p>When a book was originally published in 1938 and it is still on the shelves of libraries today and being made into a major motion picture, you get the drift that it has some pretty special qualities that are universal and transcend the charge of social culture....
by Katy Manck | Jun 9, 2011 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Stella is so much cooler than Jude, always showing up in her life just when Jude despairs of escaping her small British coastal town, the cliques at her high school, the woeful expression on her widowed dad’s face. Jude just couldn’t get through this summer –...
