A 1996 Newbery Honor Book follows the survival story of nine-year-old Jamie, his mother, and his baby sister Nin, who leave the abusive Van and move to a small trailer in the woods, where they slowly learn how to trust again. Reprint.

What Jamie Saw

Children's Books

Coman, Carolyn

Growing Up & Facts of Life

Puffin

Tell Me Everything

When Roz's mother is killed while rescuing a hiker, Roz is left distraught and soon begins to call the hiker to find out exactly what happened to her mother on that fateful day. Reprint.

Teen & Young Adult

Literature & Fiction

A shattering tale of guilt, innocence, and the potential for healing explores the nature of family incest as Bee and her older brother Jacky, whose childhood games years ago became sexual, again start a relationship. Reprint.

Bee and Jacky

History

Many Stones

When Berry's sister is murdered while working as a school volunteer in Capetown, she journeys with her father to attend her memorial service and soon comes to learn a great deal about the political problems of South Africa through her personal experiences with its countrymen. Reprint.

Classics

When Ivy and Ray's parents are sent to jail and they are left in the custody of their parent's accusers, they decide to look for evidence that will "spring" their parents. An ALA Notable Book. Reprint.

The Big House

Out of the blue Berry's estranged dad turns up and tells her that her sister Laura has been murdered in South Africa. Berry is consumed by despair and anger. At night she lies in bed, with a pile of comforting stones on her chest, to stop her floating away. Then her dad tells her they are going to South Africa to go to Laura's memorial service. Feeling bitter and alone, Berry begins a painful journey to the place where her sister died, accompanied by a father she doesn't want to know. But in a country seeking its own reconciliation, Berry takes the reluctant steps towards forgiveness.

Pan Childrens

Computer-generated illustrations adorn a charming story about a young girl's friendship with an antique collector who becomes angry when she loses the gift that he gave her.

Losing Things at Mr. Mudd's

Farrar. Straus & Giroux

When she discovers that Nate's phone number is now unlisted, twelve-year-old Roz figures that it is time to ask him what really happened on the day that her mother died.

After her mother dies trying to rescue a boy on a snowy mountain, twelve-year-old Roz searches desperately to understand what happened, and why her mother seemed to choose him over her. "During a search for a lost teenager, Roz Jacoby's mother simply fell off a mountain and out of Roz's life. Feeling confused, betrayed, adrift, and, at times, guilty, 12-year-old Roz plots a course that will take her to Nate, the boy for whom her mother died...Coman's narrative skillfully unveils past events with a subtle emotional intensity that keeps the reader riveted...Pure poetry."-Starred, Booklist

Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

After her mother dies in a rescue mission on a snowy mountain, twelve-year-old Roz wonders if talking to God, and to the boy for whom her mother died, can help her understand what happened

Tell Me Everything (Aerial Fiction)

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Books by Coman, Carolyn

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What Jamie Saw

Tell Me Everything

Bee and Jacky

Many Stones

The Big House

Many Stones

Losing Things at Mr. Mudd's

Tell Me Everything

Tell Me Everything

Tell Me Everything (Aerial Fiction)