Twelve-year-old Rox and her grandmother Mimi sell at a flea market every weekend to supplement the family's only income, that of construction worker and college student, cousin John Martin.

Sister Spider Knows All

Teen & Young Adult

Fogelin, Adrian

Literature & Fiction

Peachtree

Crossing Jordan

This moving, coming-of-age story follows a young white girl who overcomes family prejudice and cultural differences when she befriends a black girl in a small working-class town.Twelve-year-old Cassie narrates the dramatic events that unfold when Jemmie, an African-American girl, and her family move in next door. Despite their parents' deeply held prejudice against each other's family-exemplified by the fence Cassie's father builds between their two houses-the girls find they share more similarities than differences. Mutual interests in reading and running draw them together, and their wariness of each other disappears. But when their parents find out about the burgeoning friendship, each girl is forbidden to see the other. A family crisis and celebration provide opportunities for the families to reach an understanding.Author Adrian Fogelin addresses the complex issues of bigotry and tolerance with sensitivity and intelligence. Readers will find her story of how two adolescent girls, through their own example, teach racial tolerance to the adults in a small Florida town powerful and compelling.

Children's Books

Growing Up & Facts of Life

Demco Media

Anna Casey's Place in the World

<p>Anna, a twelve year old girl with strong survival instincts, tries to adjust to life in a Florida foster home in a strange neighborhood with an overly tidy single woman and Eb, another foster child who is not at all sure he wants to stay there.</p>

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Anna, a twelve-year-old girl with strong survival instincts, tries to adjust to life in a Florida foster home in a strange neighborhood with an overly tidy single woman and Eb, another foster child who is not at all sure he wants to stay there.

Anna Casey's Place In The World (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)

Turtleback

<p>FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. This moving, coming of age story tells the story of a young white girl who overcomes family prejudice and cultural differences when she befriends a black girl in a small working-class town.</p>

Crossing Jordan (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)

Award-winning author Adrian Fogelin follows up her critically acclaimed young adult novel CROSSING JORDAN with ANNA CASEY’S PLACE IN THE WORLD, the story of a young girl’s trials and triumphs as she tries to find a home.  With warmth and humor, Fogelin creates Anna, who must deal with the loss of her family and adjust to living in a foster home.  Feeling abandoned and alone, Anna turns to her best friend, her explorer journal.  With the help of her journal and a scrawny new friend named Eb, Anna discovers a sense of belonging…and her own place in the world.

Perfection Learning

Anna Casey's Place in the World (Adrian Fogelin)

Fitzgerald Books

When Jemmie and her family move into the house next door, Cass s father quickly erects a fence to keep the families separate. But the two girls do not share their parents prejudices, and soon they form a secret bond, based on their shared love of running, and an unexpected appreciation of Jane Eyre. This wise and touching novel has become a classroom favorite.

Crossing Jordan (Adrian Fogelin)

My Brother's Hero (Adrian Fogelin)

Big Nothing (Adrian Fogelin)

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Sister Spider Knows All

Crossing Jordan

Anna Casey's Place in the World

Anna Casey's Place In The World (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)

Crossing Jordan (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)

Anna Casey's Place in the World

Anna Casey's Place in the World (Adrian Fogelin)

Crossing Jordan (Adrian Fogelin)

My Brother's Hero (Adrian Fogelin)

Big Nothing (Adrian Fogelin)