Frances O'Roark Dowell
1) Hazard
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
Told in a series of reports to his therapist, Hazard is resentful about being forced into counseling after being suspended from his school football team for unsportsmanlike conduct, angry that his father has served four tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, angry that his father has lost a leg when an IED blew up--but as his therapy progresses he begins to process what has happened to him and his family, including his father's psychological trauma...
3) The class
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"A sixth-grade class comes together to support a classmate in need, each of them giving their own perspective on the goings on"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
Twelve-year-olds Kate and Marylin, friends since preschool, draw further apart as Marylin becomes involved in student government and cheerleading, while Kate wants to play guitar and write songs, and both develop unlikely friendships with other girls and boys.
Author
Publisher
Milton Falls Media
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
In the tradition of Marie Bostwick and Jennifer Chiaverini, Frances O'Roark Dowell combines her deep connection to the quilting life and her love of storytelling to create a novel about the abiding friendships that bind together a community of women who share a love of making quilts.When Emma Byrd moves to the house of her dreams in the small mountain community of Sweet Anne's Gap, North Carolina, she knows she'll have to do some work in order to...
8) Falling in
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
Middle-schooler Isabelle Bean follows a mouse's squeak into a closet and falls into a parallel universe where the children believe she is the witch they have feared for years, finally come to devour them.
12) Chicken boy
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2005
Description
Since the death of his mother, Tobin's family life and school life have been in disarray, but after he starts raising chickens with his seventh-grade classmate, Henry, everything starts to fall into place. Tobin McCauley's got a near-certifiable grandmother, a pack of juvenile-delinquent siblings, and a dad who's not going to win father of the year any time soon. To top it off, Tobin's only friend truly believes that the study of chickens will reveal...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
©2013
Description
Best friends Marylin and Kate compete for limited school resources when Kate helps her boyfriend seek funding for the Audio Lab, while Marylin covers her interest in the student body president by claiming she only wants his support for new cheerleading uniforms.
14) Dovey Coe
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2000
Description
When accused of murder in her North Carolina mountain town in 1928, Dovey Coe, a stronged-willed twelve-year-old girl, comes to a new understanding of others, including her deaf brother.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
When his new best friend, Ben, decides to run for class president, fourth-grade science whiz Phineas MacGuire reluctantly agrees to be his campaign manager in exchange for help with his latest experiment--cultivating exhibits for a mold museum.