Mary Casanova

Twelve-year-old Seth wants to prove to his stepfather, the game warden, that he is responsible enough to use his shotgun on his own. Without permission, he takes matters into his own hands and shoots his first rabbit. He is worried about what his father will say when he finds out—and Seth himself is unsure of how he feels about it—but before he can confess, Seth's life is turned upside down.

In the woods near his house, he sees

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Sixteen-year-old Sadie Rose hasn't said a word in eleven years—ever since the day she was found lying in a snowbank during a howling storm. Like her voice, her memories of her mother and what happened that night were frozen.

Set during the roaring 1920s in the beautiful, wild area on Rainy Lake where Minnesota meets Canada, Frozen tells the remarkable story of Sadie Rose, whose mother died under strange circumstances

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A girl and her dog set out in their canoe one morning, only to be insistently joined by a series of animals, large and small.

When Chrissa starts fourth grade at a new school, some of the girls in her class play mean tricks on her, but when their teasing of another girl, Gwen, goes too far, Chrissa knows that she has to do something about it.

When ten-year-old Jess McConnell meets a new friend on her trip to the ancient Mayan ruins in Belize, she is invited on an eco-adventure and makes some real discoveries--about the dangers in the jungle, about the people who have lived there since long ago, and about herself.

A girl moves to a new school and finds that she must deal with bullies and learn to stand up for herself and her friends.