When sixteen-year-old Corinne Corcoran's father loses his job, she is forced to give up her privileged Manhattan lifestyle and move to Broken Spoke, Texas, where she discovers that life is more than shopping sprees and country clubs.
While developing a new system to maintain defenses in Morganville, Texas, Claire Danvers discovers a way to amplify vampire mental powers which has a side-effect of causing residents--both human and vampire--to forget who they are.
Katie spends the lazy days of summer waiting for life to begin; waiting to fall in love; and waiting for the beatings to stop. Since the death of her mother, she and her sister have struggled to understand their father's violent behavior.
After their father's death, the three Stoddard girls travel with their mother back to the family farm where they struggle to survive during the Dust Bowl and put all of their faith in the success of a wildcat oil well.
John Howard Griffin and the story of Black like me
Bonazzi, Robert
1997
A discussion of John Howard Griffin, the author of "Black Like Me, " telling of the experiences that led him to darken his skin in 1959 in order to pass as an African-American in the Deep South; analyzing the text of his book; and discusssing the aftermath of Griffin's experiment.
In a series of journal entries and letters to a pen pal, Katie relates her feelings about her father's death in World War II, her mother's remarriage, and the family's move from New York City to Texas.
An illustrated introduction to Texas that covers the geography, climate, weather, plants, animals, history, people, cities, transportation, natural resources, industry, sports, and entertainment of the state.
Eight-year-old Dodi hopes to overcome the objections of her family and Texas trailer park neighbors so that she can keep the stray dog she calls Prince.
