Norma Fox Mazer
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
Norma Fox Mazer's remarkable story of two sisters fighting to survive against a world without caring.In the sad, shabby trailer where Em Thurkill lived her first fourteen years, suffering her father's alcoholic rages and her mother's deathly silence, and in the three she lived trapped with her violent, unstable sister, there seems more than enough to end even the dream of hope.Yet Em Thurkill's story is a story of how hope outlives brutality. It is...
2) Girlhearts
Author
Pub. Date
2001.
Physical Desc
210 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Sarabeth Silver's life is turned upside-down when her mother dies suddenly, leaving her orphaned, confused, and at the mercy of everyone who seems to know what is best for her.
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
284 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
In Mallory, New York, as five sisters, aged eleven to seventeen, deal with assorted problems, conflicts, fears, and yearnings, a mysterious middle-aged man watches them, fascinated, deciding which one he likes the best.
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
148 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Sprig no longer gets along with her twelve-year-old sister, Dakota, but the two pull together during their father's extended business trip to Afghanistan, sharing concerns about his safety, an elderly neighbor's health, fights with their best friends, and boys.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1993.
Physical Desc
194 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
During the summer internship on a newspaper, fourteen-year-old Vicki develops a love-hate relationship with Chris, the only male intern, and writes a sensational story about her friend Faith which the other interns try to get her to destroy.