Linda Oatman High

Loving her family but disliking the circus that is her grandparents' life, Lily is devastated when her grandfather passes away, a loss that leads her to develop an unexpected bond with her grandfather's equally grieving elephant.

"Macy is dead. Selfies while driving never end well. She knows it now #suckstobeme. And she has unfinished business. Her friend Ryan is planning to shoot up the school. But the afterlife is so ... unexpected. She gets distracted. Who knew she would find love? Just like prose, a novel in verse tells a story. But verse is unique because readers access the text through short chapters, or poems. The varying lengths of the chapters are ideal for a struggling...

First, there was Bird. Then there was Bird-Bird. And now, Third Bird. Magnolia's daddy won the beloved cockatiel Third Bird at a carnival, just before he, died in a car accident. Magnolia promised to always take good care of Third Bird... but then she loses him, when she accidentally, allows the bird to fly from his cage at her mama's beauty salon. Magnolia's grief, for her father and for her lost bird, opens up a whole, new world of friends as they...

A collection of poems that chronicle a year in the life of an Amish or Mennonite community in Pennsylvania Dutch Country.

A father and son team of barn savers works to ensure that a beautiful old barn is taken apart with respect and tender care so that all its pieces can be used again in future building projects.

"A magical umbrella takes Heather and her team to experience a superstorm and help someone in need. Weather terms, information about ways people can mitigate the effects of climate change, and weather experiments supplement the story"--

A fictionalized account, told in free-verse poems, of a young girl's experience living through the 1888 "Great Blizzard" in New York City.

Heather's magical umbrella takes her and her team near a wildfire where they help create a "burn break" and assist the locals. Includes weather terms, information about ways people can prevent wildfires, and weather experiments to supplement the story.

With his father, the caretaker of Gettysburg's Evergreen Cemetery, off fighting in the Union Army, Fred Thorn endures the three-day Battle of Gettysburg and then helps his mother and grandfather bury around one hundred soldiers.

"A law has been passed. There will be no more genders. Everyone must appear gender neutral. No more boys. No more girls. Just otherwise. Same bland clothes. Same fuzzy heads. "Spark" dreads the countdown leading up to the finality of the new law's passage. Her parents are for it. They're tired of conforming to society's standards. But they allow her to take off for a quick camping trip to gather her thoughts. At the campsite, she meets "Whistler."...