Kathleen O'Dell

Ophie Out of Oz

In late nineteenth-century Maine, Clara Dooley gains a friend and uncovers a magical secret that changes her life when she learns to care for the once-feared birds in the aviary attached to the Glendoveer mansion where she lives.

The Aviary

A new look for Agnes Parker!Middle school is going to take some getting used to. AgnesÂ's best friend, Prejean, has jumped in and decided to run for class president, but Agnes would rather try to be invisible. ThatÂ'll be difficult now that Prejean has asked Agnes to be her campaign manager. And then thereÂ's Aram, a boy in AgnesÂ's art class who seems to have a crush on her. HeÂ's smart and funny, and Agnes feels comfortable around him. But is he such an odd duck that sheÂ'll seem odd by association?

Agnes Parker... Keeping Cool in Middle School

She's left her good Catholic girl ways behind . . . mostly. It is 1967, the Summer of Love, and Mary Margaret Hallinan has that itchy, squirmy feeling that there must be something more out there for her. Her new best friend, the glamorous Jane, says that boys are the ticket to a spectacular future. Her ex-best friend Elizabeth is sure she's going to hell. "Say yes!" commands Jane, and Mary Margaret has tried to follow her c'mon-it'll-be-fabulous friend into the psychedelic swirl. But can she fit any of her old self to this new life she's trying on?This is it, this is gonna be the summer. Mary Margaret Hallinan, former good Catholic girl, is clutching her ticket.Friendship, faith, family, feminism, and1960s counterculture all contribute to the heartfelt, thoughtful pages of Bad Tickets.

Bad Tickets

Caring for Ivy's talking parrot while she is on vacation, Julie rapidly discovers that an old friend has been hiding secrets that might be causing strange occurrences at Ivy's house, in a tale inspired by the wild parrots of Telegraph Hill and the vegetarianism movement of the 1970s. Simultaneous.

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