Ellis, Ella Thorp

A fourteen-year-old girl's struggle with poverty and her mother's schizophrenia is eased by an old man, a social worker, and two school friends.

While running away from his foster home, Pete runs into Barney and begins an adventure that takes him from California to the Virgin Islands.

A fictionalized version of the author's experiences in 1946 when, at the age of sixteen, she was admitted to a San Francisco tuberculosis hospital and courted by a Maharajah's son.

Though Anna is sent to stay with a family she has always loved when her father joins the Army in 1942, she comes to realize, bitterly, that she really does not belong among them.

Presents a fictionalized account of the author's experiences in 1946 when, at the age of sixteen, she was admitted to a San Francisco tuberculosis hospital and courted by a Maharajah's son.

When it is proposed that he attend school in the United States, a fourteen-year-old boy struggles with his parents' dissolving marriage and his desire to remain near the whales that annually migrate to the waters near his Patagonian home.

When it is proposed that he attend school in the United States, a fourteen-year-old boy struggles with his parents' dissolving marriage and his desire to remain near the whales that annually migrate to the waters near his Patagonian home.