Firefly & Fern

Street corner dad

Gibbons, Alan

Ages 10–15familyresilience

Poor is just a starting place

Leslie J. Wyatt

Ages 9–14povertyfamily resilience

Literature and Science in the Nineteenth Century

Laura Otis, Edgar Allan Poe, Lewis Carroll, Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Arthur Conan Doyle, George Bernard Shaw

Ages 15–18science and imaginationintellectual curiosity

Elsie's troubled times

Martha Finley

Ages 10–14faithresilience

In the shadow of the Pali

Lisa Cindrich

Ages 10–15courageidentity

Gratefully yours

Jane Buchanan

Ages 10–14death and grieffamily

Evidence of V

Sheila O'Connor

Ages 13–18identityself-discovery

Roaring 20s

Ages 12–15american historycultural change

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Harold Bloom

Ages 14–18american literatureliterary analysis

Or Give Me Death

Ann Rinaldi

Ages 12–16family conflictmental illness

No Promises in the Wind

Irene Hunt

Ages 11–16familyresilience

Kate's story, 1914

Adele Whitby

Ages 9–13family secretscousins

A Northern Light

Jennifer Donnelly

Ages 14–18coming-of-ageidentity

historical context