Paige Hancock starts junior year with a list of ways to take back her life, rather than spending another year as "The Girl Whose Boyfriend Drowned," and finding out that Ryan Chase, her long-term crush, is available again might be the key.
When seventh-grader Mitch Sloan moves to Jonasburg, Indiana, he uses his exceptional skills in math, money, and sports statistics to make friends--but gets in over his head when he starts a football betting ring.
George Amberson Minafer, the spoiled and arrogant grandson of the founder of the Amberson family fortune, sets the wealthy society clan on the path to financial ruin in the late nineteenth century.
After being set free from slavery in 1832, young James Starman and his family journey from Tennessee to Indiana to start a new life and over the years they are joined by so many blacks that they start their own town.
Who knew that Ma Kettle hailed from Acton, Indiana? Who knew that Hollywood's coolest man alive in the 1950s, James Dean, and the coolest man alive during the 1960s and 1970s, Steve McQueen, both hailed from the ninetheenth state?.
Presents the author's first-hand account of growing up in Mooreland, Indiana in the 1960s and 1970s, remembering her eventful family life and championing her mother's accomplishments with fondness.
