Isabelle Holland

Charles didn't know much about life ... until he met The Man Without a Face "I'd never had a friend, and he was my friend; I'd never really, except for a shadowy memory, had a father, and he was my father. I'd never known an adult I could communicate with or trust, and I communicated with him all the time, whether I was actually talking to him or not. And I trusted him ...... Fourteen-year-old Charles desperately wants two things: a father and a way out. Little love has come his way until the summer he befriends a mysterious scarred man named Justin McLeod, nicknamed ""The Man Without a Face." Charles enlists McLeod's help as tutor for the St. Matthew's school entrance exams, his ticket away from the unpleasant restrictions of his home life. But more important than anything he could get out of a book, that summer Charles learns from McLeod a stirring life lesson about the many faces of love. ‘Not much affection had come Charles’s way until the summer he was fourteen, when he met McLeod [a man whose face was deeply scarred] and learned that love has many facets.’ —BL. ‘A highly moral book, powerfully and sensitively written; a book that never loses sight of the human." —H. 1972 Best Books for Young Adults (ALA) Best of the Best Books (YA) 1970-1983 (ALA) Outstanding Children's Books of 1972 (NYT)

The Man Without a Face

Alan and the Animal Kingdom

"The mystery of the house in the woods and Bridget's discoveries about herself keep the reader's interest...This novel is crammed with action." VOYA

The House in the Woods

Trelawny

A Death at St. Anselm's rocks the wealthy Manhattan Episcopal church which has done so much to help the poor and homeless of the community. When the church's business manager is found murdered, suspicion naturally turns to the streetpeople who have been given shelter each night in the parish house. Incensed at this social bigotry, the Rev. Norbert Shearer is quick to defend the "disadvantaged: at the expense of his colleague, the Rev. Claire Aldington, a young widow and St. Anselm's therapist. Claire in turn fears she may be shielding her stepdaughter, Martha, a confused and anorexic teenager with problems of her own. But could martha be guilty of such a crime? --Book jacket.

A Death at St. Anselm's

Furious with her father for breaking his promise to go camping with her at the end of the school term, sixteen-year-old Pat decides to hitchhike home to teach him a lesson.

Hitchhike

A teenage heroine finds her life threatened while on a visit to the Caribbean. Also use: The Empty House (Harper, 1983).

The Island

Kevin O' Donnell may be poor right now, but he's not going to stay that way for long--not if he has anything to do with it. With his father unable to work and a little sister to support, Kevin needs to find work, any work.But jobs aren't easy to come by in New York during 1881, especially for a twelve-year-old immigrant boy. So Kevin finds himself scrambling, desperately seeking ways to make a few dollars here and there. And he begins cutting a few corners. When he's discovered "borrowing" and reselling newspapers, he knows he's in for it -- the workhouse, or maybe even jail.That's why he's shocked when the elegant man who caught him offers him his dream job: a job on the man's newspaper. Now it's up to Kevin to make it work. But can he leave the slums behind him, or will his attitude doom him to remain a boy from the streets?

Paperboy

Seth, who is lame, takes his donkey, who is also lame, to see Jesus hoping they can be healed.

The Easter Donkey

Overweight and lacking self-esteem, seventeen-year-old Jill Hamilton, daughter of an alcoholic doctor, finds her life transformed by her relationship with handsome Nathan Vandermark, who attends an exclusive, nearby prep school.

Jenny Kiss'd Me

Seventeen-year-old Patricia Mallory's ideas about life, adults, and the world abruptly change when she defiantly hitchhikes home from school and runs into some very serious trouble.

Martha Tierney is awakened from a routine hangover by a call revealing her young son's disappearance, and she battles to find him and rescue herself from alcoholism

Bump in the Night

Roman

Der Mann ohne Gesicht

A young girl embarks unknowingly on a dangerous regime to lose weight while her parents are absorbed in marital difficulties.

Heads You Win Tails I Lose

There were some secrets in the Beresford family, problems they didn't like to discuss. But now the shield of silence was about to be destroyed by a legacy.

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