georgia

Presents illustrations and information about Mary Musgrove, a woman with a white father and Creek Indian mother who became an entrepreneur and translator in colonial Georgia. Includes a writing activity, glossary, comprehension questions, and index.

Sixth-grader Emilia Torres struggles with ADHD, her controlling abuela, her mother's work commitments, her father's distance after returning from deployment, evolving friendships, and a conflict over school redistricting.

Ten-year-old Beth is kidnapped from her Georgia home and held captive, relying only on her will to survive. Seven years later, Imogene is burying her father, a Klan leader, when she is confronted with his secrets--a child in a locked basement on her father's property. Imogene's search for the child's mother leads her to Beth's disappearance years before, and she presses ahead looking for answers despite the threat of retaliation from the Klan that could change Imogene's life forever.

Frankie Addams, a motherless twelve-year-old raised by her father and the family's African-American cook, struggles with conflicting feelings about her brother's upcoming wedding.

The three Lovejoy sisters are reunited in their hometown of Mulberry, Georgia when their mother dies, and vow to bury years of anger and pain along with their hateful parent.

Bob and Rex are promising high school baseball players, but their world turns upside down when their father dies suddenly while umpiring a softball game.

Twelve-year-old Frankie is utterly bored until she hears about her older brother's wedding. He returns from Alaska to his Georgia, and Frankie decides she will go, uninvited, on the honeymoon.

As Ludell and Willie prepare to graduate from their high school in a small southern town, they experience events that alter their plans for the future.

Katie Takeshima, a Japanese American girl growing up in rural Georgia during the late 1950s and early 1960s, is cheered by the optimism of her sister and best friend Lynn, but when Lynn becomes very ill, Katie struggles to find a way to keep her hopeful spirit alive within the family.

It is summer in Bog Hollow, and Austin, Ethan, Daryl, and Nellie are working together, despite the contentious relationship between Austin and Nellie, to prepare the new snake exhibit at the park's visitor center; but Austin and Nellie also have other things to worry about--Nellie's pet corn snake has escaped, and Austin's father and Nellie's mother are spending an awful lot of time together.