Walker, Melissa

"If it were up to Mattie Markham, there would be a law that said your family wasn't allowed to move in the middle of the school year. After all, sixth grade is hard enough without wondering if you'll be able to make new friends or worrying that the kids in Pennsylvania won't like your North Carolina accent. But when Mattie meets her next-door neighbor and classmate, she begins to think maybe she was silly to fear being the 'new girl.' Agnes is like no one Mattie has ever met--she's curious, hilarious, smart, and makes up the best games. If winter break is anything to go by, the rest of the school year should be a breeze. Only it isn't, because when vacation ends and school starts, Mattie realizes something: At school Agnes is known as the weird girl who no one likes. All Mattie wants is to fit in (okay, and maybe be a little popular too), but is that worth ending her friendship with Agnes?"--Provided by publisher.

Seventeen-year-old Violet Greenfield of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, believes herself too tall and skinny until a top modeling agent gives her the royal treatment in New York City, and Vi suddenly finds herself facing fame, popularity, and the jealousy of her best friends.

"Claire Ladd knows that this summer is going to be special. She and her two best friends, Ronan and Brianna, are turning twelve. She is leaving camp behind and gets to do what she wants all day. She feels everything starting to change. But things don't always change for the better. With Brianna's cousin Eden visiting for summer, Claire feels like a third wheel . . . [And] Ronan, who lives in the trailer next to Claire's has started acting moody anytime anyone mentions his dad"--Dust jacket.

Struggling to adapt when her family moves during the school year, Mattie makes friends with the girl next door during winter break only to confront unpopularity when she learns that her new friend is the weird girl in school who no one likes.

Despite her intention to give up runway modeling, eighteen year old Violet, lured back by the promise of travel to Brazil, Spain and France, sees her best friends off to college and embarks on an, often painful, international adventure.

Enrolled at Vassar College, Violet Greenfield, an insecure nineteen year old supermodel, accepts an internship with "Teen Fashionista" magazine and finds herself falling in love with her best friend Roger.

After surviving a tragic accident, sixteen-year-old Callie McPhee wakes up from a coma with knowledge of the afterlife where she met Thatcher, the spirit who protected her, and can help her save the people she loves from the menace of evil spirits.

Drawing upon personal interviews, family papers, archives, and government records, Walker (history, Converse College, Spartanburg, South Carolina) depicts southern farm women's struggles to adapt to a rapidly industrializing US between the world wars. Divergent paths of this "negotiated process" included becoming partners in New Deal-influenced commercial farming, modeling middle-class homemakers with USDA encouragement, taking off-farm jobs, or leaving the land entirely. Their generally improved material lot, however, involved some take-offs. Includes period photos.

High school junior Lacey finds herself questioning the evangelical Christian values she has been raised with when a new boy arrives in her small town.

Seventeen-year-old Violet Greenfield of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, believes herself too tall and skinny until a top modeling agent gives her the royal treatment in New York City, and Vi suddenly finds herself facing fame, popularity, and the jealousy of her best friends.