Hazel Rye

An eleven-year-old girl, with no appreciation for land and growing things, finds her values beginning to change when she agrees to let an impoverished family live in a small house she owns, in exchange for working in the surrounding orange grove.

Cleaver, Vera

Cleaver, Bill

Children's Books

HarperCollins, Publishers

Me Too

Hoping to expunge neighborhood prejudice and to do something everyone else has failed to do, a twelve-year-old desperately tries to teach her retarded twin.

Randolph Caldecott (1846-1886) was one of the most important British illustrators. He transformed the world of decorated children's books in the Victorian era. In 1877, he was asked by Edmund Evans, the colour printer and talented engraver, to illustrate two children's books. These books were an immediate success and he went on to produce two books every Christmas until he died. Caldecott chose all the stories and rhymes he illustrated and occasionally wrote and added to the stories himself. His delightful style and humour can still be enjoyed by young and old alike. This story, 'The Queen Of Hearts', was originally published in 1881. Many of the earliest children's books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Pook Press are working to republish these classic works in affordable, high quality, colour editions, using the original text and artwork so these works can delight another generation of children.

Queen of Hearts

Teen & Young Adult

Sweetly Sings the Donkey

It is up to fourteen-year-old Lily Snow to hold her family together when her parents' plans for a better life in Florida backfire

Literature & Fiction

Trophy Pr

Belle Pruitt

When her adored baby brother suddenly dies of pneumonia, eleven-year-old Belle is left to cope with the devastating effects on her family

Trial Valley

An abandoned child, found in the woods near Mary Call's Smoky Mountain home, further complicates the life of the proud sixteen-year-old girl, who is struggling to raise a younger brother and sister and trying to cope with two suitors.

Harpercollins Childrens Books

Twelve-year-old Annie gradually begins to understand the bigotry of the small town that makes her an outcast when her illegitimate eight-year-old nephew comes to live with her and her father.

I Would Rather be a Turnip

H.Hamilton

Where the Lilies Bloom

'Set in the Appalachian hills, the story -- narrated by 14-year-old Mary Call -- tells of her efforts to keep her family together and independent after their sharecropper father dies. . . . There is a great deal of humor and love.' -- Teacher. 'Readers won't forget [Mary Call's] sharp, touching, often wildly funny report.' -- SLJ. Basis for the feature film.

HarperTeen

Delpha Green causes turmoil in the sleepy town of Chinquapin Cove when she attempts to recruit new church members

Delpha Green and Company

Lippincott, Williams, & Wilkins