pennsylvania

Following a difficult freshman year, Scott Hudson is hoping that sophomore year will be easier, but after a disaster of a first week he finds himself faced with new challenges--including a particularly demanding English teacher, a school board member whose budget cutting is covering up a crime, and the discovery that his friendship with Lee, the Goth girl he met last year, is turning into something else entirely.

Ten-year-old Ann overcomes loneliness and learns to appreciate the importance of her role in settling the wilderness of western Pennsylvania.

A biography of medical innovator Thomas D. M?tter, a Philadelphia plastic surgeon of the nineteenth century who pioneered the use of ether and the sterilization of surgical tools, and who left behind a collection of medical oddities that are today housed in the M?tter Museum.

When her father dies, Tessa is pulled back to the small Pennsylvania town where her life came apart when her father was sent to prison, her mother went to pieces, and her beloved older sister ran away, and where her testimony and that of her now-estranged friend Callie sent a serial killer to death row--a serial killer who may be getting a new trial as long buried secrets come to light.

Georgie has many responsibilities on his 1920s Pennsylvania farm. But when we wakes up one morning to see all his eggs have been stolen, he suspects Buster, a local stray dog. Buster leads Georgie on a wild chase, and the two have an unexpected adventure.

After an injury ends former star pitcher Peter Friedman's athletic dreams, he concentrates on photography which leads him to a girlfriend, new fame as a high school sports photographer, and a deeper relationship with the beloved grandfather who, when he realizes he is becoming senile, gives Pete all of his professional camera gear.

"Twelve-year-old Cole's behavior causes his mother to drive him from Detroit to Philadelphia to live with a father he has never known, but who soon has Cole involved with a group of African-American "cowboys" who rescue horses and use them to steer youths away from drugs and gangs"--Provided by publisher.

A memoir in which the author, eight-years-old when her mother died in a fire, discusses how the loss affected her, and describes the challenges and abuse she and her brothers suffered with their step-grandparents, at an orphanage, and in foster homes.

Thirteen-year-old Amelie Day loves to bake, so she is thrilled to be invited to compete in the 'Best Teen Baker of the Year' contest, and she is determined not to let her steadily worsening cystic fibrosis get in the way, even if it means lying to her parents, and catching a train to New York on her own--but when her friend is hit by a van trying to follow her, she is devastated.