Bøger af Joan Schmeichel

The Great Depression continues, but Laura finds her life filled with things of far greater significance to her. There is the teacher who flies paper airplanes around the room and the old man with the gun and the dog. There is Carl, the new boy in school, and Sheldon, theboy who claims Laura is his girl. There is Florence's surprising information about boys and what they talk about. There is the long, rainy afternoon and Laura's hasty decision to act, and its consequences. Finally, there is the anticipation of Christmas and the tragedy of family illness. Most of all, there are the changes in Laura's life. Too many, she will tell you.

Set against a backdrop of poverty, Kisses for Laura takes us to a time in America

This is Thorngar, over two thousand pounds of bison, six feet from hump top to hoof bottom.This is his escape from the Chillicothe, Ohio zoo and his western journey as he tries to return to his beloved Thornhead Mountain and Gar Springs.This is Millicent, the vain and obstreperous black crow, who becomes Thorngar's traveling companion. This is their story, their journey and their adventures along the way.

Maggie is sixteen years old, a pretty girl with hazel eyes and long blond hair. As with most modern teen age girls, a boyfriend and school activities take up most of her time. This is true until the day she steps through a hidden door in the family's new home. On the other side of the doorway she finds Harriet Tubman waiting for her. She chastises Maggie for putting the other slaves at risk by arriving late at the safe house. This is Maggie's story after a time warp sends her back to the 1850s. As an escaping slave, she is recaptured and resold. Dey Calls Me Maggie covers Maggie's time in captivity and her attempts to free herself.

Splendid and enchanting, this book offers a sad, sweet, and entertaining time-travel story. KIRKUS REVIEWSJeremy Biggs is a soccer star and member of the "in" group at West Central High.He says the right things, acts the right way. The script, he calls it. But sometimes he wonders about being something different, maybe the guy in the white hat, the one who rescues damsels in distress. But there are no damsels needing rescuing. Or are there? Or is it Jeremy who needs rescuing?These are Jeremy's junior and senior years in high school, the times of proms, awards and the big decision about college. Jeremy's college worry is who, if any, will offer him a scholarship. And if they do, where is the right place for him? These questions, along with soccer and girl troubles take up most of Jeremy's thoughts. That is, until he spends the summer in Vermont helping out his ailing grandfather. There he finds a burned-out, one room school house where, he is told, a tragedy occurred about a hundred years ago. When Jeremy steps over the blackened threshold of the school and finds a classroom of students, he thinks he must be losing his mind. But when he falls in love with one of the students, life gets even more complicated.

This is the story of Amanda Fisher, or perhaps the story of Katherine Jamison. That is for the reader to decide as the story takes them through a twisting plot of identity confusion and crisis. Is she Amanda Fisher, the daughter of a small town physician who was on her way to a promising job in California? Or is she Katherine Jamison, heir to a sizeable fortune and married to a well known plastic surgeon in Philadelphia? The reader follows the young woman as she goes from a short term mental health facility to an upscale Philadelphia suburban house in trying to determine who she is, what happened to her and what she may be able to do about it. In the process of trying to uncover her real identity, she opens some surprising doors.

Roman Boles is a dramatic, fast-paced and tension-filled novel sure to capture the attention of young adult readers.