Greene, Bette

Sheltering an escaped prisoner of war is the beginning of some shattering experiences for a twelve-year-old girl in Arkansas.

En route to Germany in search of the maternal love she never had, eighteen-year-old Patty Bergen lingers in Paris and experiences her first love affair.

Philip Hall is the cutest, smartest boy in the class, and Beth Lambert loves him. The fact that he beats her in classwork, conniving and just about everything else doesn't particulary bother Beth at first. Then she realizes that Philip might be the best in everything because she's letting him beat her, and coming out on top is just too natural a thing for Beth to hold back for very long especially when it comes to catching turkey theives or winning calf-raising contests, or making mountain top rescues, or capturing the affection of a young boy.

When German prisoners of war are brought to her Arkansas town during World War II, twelve-year-old Patty, a Jewish girl, befriends one of them and must deal with the consequences of that friendship.

En route to Germany in search of the maternal love she never had, eighteen-year-old Patty Bergen lingers in Paris and experiences her first love affair.

Eleven-year-old Beth thinks that Philip Hall likes her, but their on-again, off-again relationship sometimes make her wonder.

As her mother battles a citizens' group that wants to ban all "antiChristian" literature from the public library, Carla faces her own battle of torn loyalties when her boyfriend starts persecuting the homosexual owners of an antiques shop.

Sheltering an escaped German prisoner of war is the beginning of some shattering experiences for a twelve-year-old Jewish girl in Arkansas.

Sheltering an escaped German prisoner of war is the beginning of some shattering experiences for a 12-year- old Jewish girl in Arkansas.

Eleven-year-old Beth thinks that Philip Hall likes her, but their on-again, off-again relationship sometimes makes her wonder.