City kids, Mary Alice and her brother, Joey, are sent to spend time each summer with their country bumpkin Grandma.  They learn valuable lessons from this woman such as: how to throw a funeral, how to keep the sheriff in line, and how to be charitable to the town hobos.  Even though she embarrasses her grandchildren, those of us reading the story love her! This book has a sequel, A Year Down Yonder.

Georgia is a "typical" teenage girl who keeps a journal about her daily problems: friendships, boys, her crazy parents. Mix in a four year old sister who "lobes" her and a Scottish wildcat named Angus, Georgia's daily drama is pure entertainment. This book is the first in a series.

This is a story about a teenage boy who sufferes from Cerebral Palsy. He is completely paralyzed and unable to communicate. His father is torn between watching his son suffer on a daily basis or finding a way to end the suffering for them both. Little does Dad know that his son WANTS to live.

When Lina and Doon are assigned jobs on their birthdays, they also learn there is a secret about their city which is only illuminated by lightbulbs. They discover that their mayor is in the middle of the plot to keep the residents of Ember "in the dark", so to speak. Together they find a way out of Ember, only to end up in the city of Sparks, another mysterious place. This book is first in a sequel. The next three books are The People of Sparks, The Prophet of Yonwood, and The Diamond of Darkhold.

Twenty-four are forced to enter. Only the winner survives. In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. Each year, the districts are forced by the Capitol to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the Hunger Games, a brutal and terrifying fight to the death - televised for all of Panem to see.

Survival is second nature for sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who struggles to feed her mother and younger sister by secretly hunting and gathering beyond the fences of District 12. When Katniss steps in to take the place of her sister in the Hunger Games, she knows it may be her death sentence. If she is to survive, she must weigh survival against humanity and life against love.