Pictures Of Hollis Woods
A troublesome twelve-year-old orphan, staying with an elderly artist who needs her, remembers the only other time she was happy in a foster home, with a family that truly seemed to care about her.
FIC
year: 2004
copies: 272
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 650
subjects: family [X], old age, foster home care, artists, orphans, new york (state), family life, large type books, art, painting, drawing, families, audiobooks, paintings, drawings, newbery award, newbery medal, reading counts! [X]
Indigo's Star
Spurred on by his youngest sister, Rose, twelve-year-old Indigo sticks up for himself and an American boy who has replaced him as the primary target of the school bullies.
FIC
year: 2006
copies: 38
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 740
subjects: bullies, brothers and sisters, friendship, family life, england, siblings, bullying, family [X], families, reading counts! [X]
Plainsong
High school teacher Tom Guthrie, abandoned by his wife and left to raise his two young sons alone, becomes involved in the lives of a pregnant, homeless teenager and two crusty, bachelor farmers.
FIC
year: 2000
copies: 12
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 770
subjects: single parent family, city and town life, family [X], colorado, high school teachers, single parents, teachers, single-parent families, family life, domestic fiction, families, domestic fiction, reading counts! [X]