The Lotterys Plus One by Emma Donoghue
Middle School Sumac Lottery is nine years old and the self-proclaimed “good girl” of her (VERY) large, (EXTREMELY) unruly family. And what a family the Lotterys are: four parents, children…
Middle School Sumac Lottery is nine years old and the self-proclaimed “good girl” of her (VERY) large, (EXTREMELY) unruly family. And what a family the Lotterys are: four parents, children…
Middle School Eleven-year-old Ellie has never liked change. She misses fifth grade. She misses her old best friend. She even misses her dearly departed goldfish. Then one day, a strange…
Kids and Adults A bull shark in the swamp? No one in the Louisiana town of St. Roch believes it at first, but when a local boy has a face-to-face…
High School After Jessica loses her leg in a bus accident, she thinks her life is over. She’s not comforted by the news that she’ll be able to walk with…
High School Welcome to Elsewhere. It’s warm, with a breeze, and the beaches are marvelous. It’s quiet and peaceful. You can’t get sick or any older. Elsewhere is where fifteen-year-old…
Middle School Eleven-year-old Alex Petroski loves space and rockets, his mom, his brother, and his dog Carl Sagan – named for his hero, the real-life astronomer. All he wants is…
HAPPY 100th POST For the record, I did not plan to make it all the way to 100 posts when I first started this blog. I didn’t plan to get so…
High School Sixteen-year-old Delia and her family move into the house they just inherited in Pennsylvania, the Piven Institute for the Care and Correction of Troubled Females. But the locals…
High School After moving from suburban Connecticut to Hollywood when her mom married Jonathan, a movie director, it seems like Willia’s seeing things in her new house. Like a dead…
4th Grade and Up What Josh thought would be the dullest summer of his life, spent with his eccentric great-aunt, turns chilling when he meets the ghost of a coal…