Grove, Vicki

Twelve-year-old Jens, who adores the farm where she has lived all her life, is devastated when severe financial problems may force her family to sell out and move to the city.

Three small town boys with serious family problems find escape one summer by turning an old trailer into a traveling exhibition of animals.

Sixth-grader Carly's assignment to interview a reclusive, brooding classmate leads her to discover some of the events that have caused his antisocial and abusive family's negative impact on their Missouri farming community, and Carly's family in particular.

Looking for a new beginning after her father's death, Eliza and her mother move to a backwater town in Missouri where Eliza's desperate attempts to be popular in her new school are thwarted by her growing friendship with the eccentric girl next door.

Thirteen-year-old Frannie learns hard lessons about prejudice and segregation when she becomes friends with a young black girl who moves into her small Oklahoma town in 1961.

Twelve-year-old Destiny tries to find meaning in her art in a life complicated by three younger siblings, a mother who dreams of winning the lottery, and her mother's unscrupulous boyfriend.

Rhiannon, a fourteen-year-old girl in twelfth-century England who lives on the bluff of Clodaghcombe with her healer mom and grandmother, enlists the aid of a handsome young monk, a mysterious French pirate, and a ghostly, little girl in an attempt to solve the murder of a stranger whose body was found close to home, and clear her friend and neighbor of suspicion.