Hermes, Patricia

In this sequel to "Kevin Corbett Eats Flies," Bailey runs for class president hoping that popularity will secure her place in her current foster home.

During the autumn of the year, thirteen-year-old Sarah learns her mother is dying of cancer.

As she struggles to make ends meet while maintaining her family's dignity, eleven-year-old Genevieve faces the possibility of turning in a slave for the bounty.

Through the changing seasons on Hairy Bear Mountain and her father's illness, Hallie continues to wish for her father's health and a china doll's head from a store window in town.

When eleven-year-old Sam visits her grandfather's ranch for the first time, she finds a new life very different from the one she has known with her vagabond mother and discovers what really matters most to her.

Kevin and his friend Bailey conspire to prevent Kevin's father from moving himself and Kevin once again.

Twelve-year-old Abbie struggles to accept her father's desire to make a new home for his family on the Nebraska prairies of the late 1850s.

Nine-year-old Elizabeth keeps a journal of her experiences in the New World as she encounters Indians, suffers hunger and the death of friends, and helps her father build their first home.

Annie is the very best nanny in the whole world, and it's been that way forever. But when Annie announces she's getting married, Emma panics. What will Emma do if Annie moves out? She won't be able to see her favorite nanny in the evenings anymore or visit her in the apartment upstairs.

In this book, Joshua's diary comes to an end with stories of life in Oregon, his sister lost in the woods, and Joshua starting school.