A Child's Christmas in Wales

Daydreams and Diaries

Harry Sue

A Month of Sundays

Way Up and Over Everything

19 Love Songs

Going, Going, Gone! with the Pain and the Great One

My One Hundred Adventures

Named after the attack that launched her country into war, Pearl Harbor Keenan has become accustomed to occasional encounters with the mysterious woman her town calls Walking Mary. No one in Framburg, Illinois, seems to know why Walking Mary meets every train that runs through their sleepy town, morning, noon, and night, as she has for forty years. Only Pearl thinks to question why, to reach out -- and to discover that what she might receive from this unlikely friendship far surpasses anything she ever could think to give. And only Pearl's younger brother can see, all too clearly, that Pearl's friendship with Walking Mary threatens not only the fragile peace within their family, but also those around them -- their friends, and even the town itself. James VanOosting's quietly powerful story examines the coming of age of one sister and brother within the larger structures of family and community.

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A Child's Christmas in Wales

Dylan Thomas, 1952

Daydreams and Diaries

Jacqueline Wilson, 2014

Harry Sue

Sue Stauffacher, 2005

A Month of Sundays

Ruth White, 2011

Way Up and Over Everything

Alice Mcgill, Jude Daly, 2007

19 Love Songs

David Levithan, 2012

Going, Going, Gone! with the Pain and the Great One

Judy Blume, James Stevenson, 2008

My One Hundred Adventures

Polly Horvath, 2008