Ernest Peterson's hopes of winning the Washington, D.C., Citywide Cup bicycle race are shattered when his grandmother gives him a huge, clunky, yellow bike for his tenth birthday.
When Louisa asks her principal to start a girls basketball team, she's soon viciously targeted by male coaches at her school, lied to by the school board, and dismissed as "out of line" as she fights for a fair chance to be an athlete.
"When living in the Alaskan wilderness with her survivalist father becomes intolerable, 12-year-old Willa sets out on a journey of escape with her younger brothers"--Provided by publisher.
"When living in the Alaskan wilderness with her survivalist father becomes intolerable, 12-year-old Willa sets out on a journey of escape with her younger brothers"--Provided by publisher.
Ernest Peterson's hopes of winning the Washington, D.C. , Citywide Cup bicycle race are shattered when his grandmother gives him a huge, clunky, yellow bike for his tenth birthday.
Three women--galley cook Rosie Moore, composer Mikala Wilbo, and graduate student Alice Neilson--find their lives entangled as they endure a brutal season on the ice of Antarctica.
In seventeenth-century Massachusetts, Samuel Roberts is accused of witchcraft when he announces his plans to marry the Revered Rockmore's daughter against her father's wishes.
