Anderson, Laurie Halse

Eighteen-year-old Lia comes to terms with her best friend's death from anorexia as she struggles with the same disorder.

A traumatic event near the end of the summer has a devastating effect on Melinda's freshman year in high school.

Separated from his friend Isabel after their daring escape from slavery, fifteen-year-old Curzon serves as a free man in the Continental Army at Valley Forge until he and Isabel are thrown together again, as slaves once more.

After being sold to a cruel couple in New York City, a slave named Isabel spies for the rebels during the Revolutionary War.

That's the question that burns in Isabel's mind as she and Curzon forge on through chaos and fear toward the dream that's kept them alive for so many years, freedom.

Adjusting to middle school becomes easier for twelve-year-old Maggie when she finds that her biology teacher, who is blind, can learn a few things from her about working with his guide dog.

"Hayley Kincaid and her father move back to their hometown to try a 'normal' life, but the horrors he saw in the war threaten to destroy their lives"--Provided by publisher.

A young girl's talented but untamed tresses do not impress her strict first-grade teacher, who has rules for everything, including hair.

After being sold to a cruel couple in New York City, a slave named Isabel spies for the rebels during the Revolutionary War.