connecticut

Emily, whose father is headmaster of a Connecticut boarding school, suffers from nightmares, and when she meets and falls in love with the handsome Del Sugar, pieces of her traumatic past start falling into place.

A collection of poems by Marilyn Nelson, accompanied by prose by African slave Venture Smith and watercolor painting by Deborah Dancy.

Traces Connecticut's history from its exploration and settlement by the Dutch in the seventeenth century to 1788 when it became the fifth state to ratify the Constitution.

When a girl she had met at an innercity church is murdered, fifteen-year-old Macey channels her grief into a school project that leads her to uncover prejudice she had not imagined in her grandparents and their wealthy Connecticut community.

Torn apart by tragedies and the publicity they brought, siblings Smithy, Jack, and Madison, aged fourteen to sixteen, tap into their parent's courage to pull together and protect their brother Tris, nearly three, from further media exploitation and a much more sinister threat.

Hank, Nathan, Jeremy, and Anabel deal with the realities of middle school basketball, including family pressure, a series of coaches with very different personalities and agendas, and what it means to be a team--and a friend.

Louise finds the perfect dress for her junior high school dance at a traveling vintage fashion sale, and puts it on only to be transported back in time to a luxurious cruise ship in 1912 where she is feted as Miss Baxter, a teenage silent film star, but when she realizes the ship she is on is the "Titanic," she knows she must somehow find a way back home.

When Shannon Card, a sixteen-year-old high school honors student, lies about her age to get a job at a Connecticut casino so she can earn money for her college tuition, she becomes involved in a secret poker society and falls deeper into a web of deceit.

For Lizzie Bennett, a music scholarship student at Connecticut's exclusive, girls-only Longbourn Academy, the furor over prom is senseless, but even more puzzling is her attraction to the pompous Will Darcy, best friend of her roommate's boyfriend.

Alice is a coolheaded blonde one year and one day older than her sister Charlie, a spirited and wild brunette. They have almost nothing in common and hate each other. They also love each other, standing up for one another in any circumstance, saying that nothing could get between them. When their parents divorce, their mother gets remarried almost immediately to Richard Flood "The Third," a rich man with skeletons in his closet. Returning with his new family to Serenity Point, Flood opens up those closets, and introduces Charlie and Alice to the one thing that could ever have separated them.