While coping with her father's impending bankruptcy, her aunt's sleazy fiance, and an annoying member of a self-actualization group, twelve-year-old Molly Smelter longs to leave Schenectady and start over elsewhere

Anywhere Else but Here

Teen & Young Adult

Clements, Bruce

Literature & Fiction

Farrar. Straus & Giroux

The Face of Abraham Candle.

Children's Books

Drawing the line between what we want and what other people want for usA woman with a forehead full of acne scars and a New York edge to her voice crosses the courthouse floor with her hand out. “Erika? I’m your lawyer. Call me Jean. Can we talk?” You’re fourteen, with a play to try out for, a crazy best friend with a ton of money, a boy whom you can’t get out of your heart, and parents who hate each other and are dragging you through court in a custody case. You follow your lawyer to the elevator, and five minutes later you’re in her beat-up car and she’s asking you who you are and what you want. Why tell her the truth when right now all you want is space and time to figure it out for yourself without hurting the people you love?Written in alternating points-of-view, this sharp and disarmingly understated novel charts the course of a caring and careworn teenager who is discovering that the first step to breaking free of a bad situation is to realize she’s trapped in one.

What Erika Wants

Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

Excellent characterization and Henry's homespun humor make this an exceptional picture of pioneer life in Missouri

I Tell a Lie Every So Often

Farrar, Straus & Cudahy

Almost from the first moment he sees Anna, Tom knows that he loves her, and although she is cautious at first, they quickly develop a very special relationship.

Tom Loves Anna Loves Tom

In this captivating sequel to I Tell a Lie Every So Often, a National Book Award finalist, it is 1849 and Henry Desant is on a mission from frontier St. Louis to revolutionary Paris to rescue his brother, Clayton, from a gang of thieves. Clayton had been told in a dream to go to Paris and preach to the sinners there. In a letter home, he boasts of his success in attracting a congregation of fifteen men to his new church. These “TRUE BELIEVERS,” he says, were led to him by a man named Deacon George, who every night “sends my flock out into the streets of this Dark City, and gets people to give them silk, silver, ivory, and small pieces of furniture.” Henry, a romantic with open eyes, can see that Clayton is being hoodwinked into letting his church be used as a front. But as he sets off on his trip down the Mississippi and across the ocean to convince Clayton that he is in trouble, Henry has no inkling of the events in store that will open his eyes even wider to the dangers and possibilities of life.

A Chapel of Thieves

Historical Fiction

After failing to extricate the whereabouts of the Plunderell fortune timid seventeen-year-old Alice Plunderell, young Laurel Bybank, along with Alice, is imprisoned in an abandoned monastery by Alice's tyrannical aunt and uncle, Lord and Lady Stayne

The Treasure of Plunderell Manor

When her father's printing business goes broke, 13-year-old Molly wants to leave Schenectady, New York, and start over in Connecticut, but matters are complicated by two selfish, conniving people.

In 1848 a fourteen-year-old Missourian, although not a habitual liar, tells two lies that start off an unusual chain of events.

"Sixteen-year-olds Tom and Anna have only two weeks together, but so much is embraced in that time-love, fear, regret, longing, death...Tom [is] the best kind of hero-an everyday one."-Starred/Booklist "This is true teenage love, pure and sincere, told with integrity."-Starred/School Library Journal

Tom Loves Anna Loves Tom (Aerial Fiction)

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Anywhere Else but Here

The Face of Abraham Candle.

What Erika Wants

I Tell a Lie Every So Often

Tom Loves Anna Loves Tom

A Chapel of Thieves

The Treasure of Plunderell Manor

Anywhere Else but Here

I Tell a Lie Every So Often

Tom Loves Anna Loves Tom (Aerial Fiction)