Maynard, Joyce

In Holton Mills, New Hampshire, the lives of thirteen-year-old Henry and his emotionally fragile mother Adele are changed forever when they open their home to a mysterious bleeding man and find themselves learning to hope again.

Andy uses the scrap material from the new house going up down the street to build a tree house.

When Rachel was a young girl she tried to help her father, a local detective, find a serial killer in the mountains of California, but she did not crack the case and her actions destroyed her fathers career. Thirty years later Rachel is convinced that the killer is still out there and she constructs a new strategy to find him and vindicate her father.

Thirteen-year-old Wendy, grieving the death of her mother in the collapse of the World Trade Center, is taken to live with her father in California where she learns important life lessons from a variety of people before returning home to her stepfather and brother, where she feels she truly belongs.

Henry is a lonely and friendless teenager and spends most of his time watching television, reading, and day-dreaming as he keeps his emotionally fragile, long-divorced mother company. But all that is about to change and Henry will soon learn about jealousy, betryal, the importance of putting those we care about above ourselves, and that real love is worth waiting for.

A novel about a thirteen-year-old girl who finds herself living with her father, across the country from her native Brooklyn, coping with her mother's violent death in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.

In 1966, when his father's attempted suicide causes the ostracism of the family in their small Montana community, fourteen-year-old Nate copes with his sadness and anger by trying to win the school science fair.

In 1966, when his father's attempted suicide causes the ostracism of the family in their small Montana community, fourteen-year-old Nate copes with his sadness and anger by trying to win the school science fair.