Smiley, Jane

The family of Asgeir Gunnarsson, a wealthy Greenlander farmer, struggles to survive personal tragedies, famine, political upheaval, and harsh conditions.

As her mom reads a bedtime story, Lucy drifts off, but later, she awakens in a dark, still room, and everything looks mysterious.

"A story of three . . . animals--and a young boy--whose lives intersect in Paris."--Provided by publisher.

In 1960s California, eighth-grader Abby Lovitt has trouble with True Blue, the newest horse on her family's ranch, a beautiful dappled gray who is so often spooked, Abby wonders if he is haunted by the ghost of his deceased former owner.

Hidden family secrets erupt when a father decides to leave his prosperous farm to two of his three daughters.

At Moo U., a midwestern university in severe financial trouble, the faculty are at work on their own secret projects to get the university more money.

As her mom reads a bedtime story, Lucy drifts off. But later, she awakens in a dark, still room, and everything looks mysterious. How will she ever get back to sleep?.

Seventh-grader Abby Lovitt grows up on her family's California horse ranch in the 1960s, learning to train the horses her father sells and trying to reconcile her strict religious upbringing with her own ideas about life.

In 1960s California, eighth-grader Abby Lovitt has trouble with True Blue, the newest horse on her family's ranch, a beautiful dappled gray who is so often spooked, Abby wonders if he is haunted by the ghost of his deceased former owner.