Susan Richards Shreve

Confused by all of the males in her life, thirteen-year-old Alyssa "Blister" Reed wants to help when her best friend Jonah's quest for popularity lands him in deep trouble, but his desire to make her his girlfriend gets in the way.

Kiss Me Tomorrow

Sam McWilliams is the oldest of the 4 McWilliams children, and the only one who remembers how the first 2 cars of the Espresso from Milan to Rome exploded, killing his parents. Haunted by their senseless death, Sam is driven to protect his siblings - even if it means breaking the law. When he winds up in a juvenile home, he begins to write skits centering on the broken families of the boys at the home. Sam's talents culminate in a series of darkly comic sketches. With these sketches as their dramatic fuel, the McWilliams children form the comedy troupe Plum & Jaggers. The McWilliamses, hailed by critics and fans, rise from underground venues to a late-night television slot with their blackly humorous take on family life and the irony of chance. But the controversy they unwittingly create exposes them to dangers - internal and external - that even Sam may not be able to quell.

Plum & Jaggers

Twelve-year-old Ellie's boring summer becomes exciting when she develops a crush on her new next-door neighbor, an older boy with a troubled past, whom her parents have forbidden her to see.

Under the Watsons' Porch

Mary Leary runs away from her conservative Catholic family to the home of Dr. Sally Page, a liberal professor teaching at the local university.

The Revolution of Mary Leary

Fourth-grader Lotty has problems with her family and her friends at school.

The Bad Dreams of a Good Girl

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Daughters of the New World

Julie MacNeil feels threatened both in the family and on the soccer field when her widower father begins to date the mother of her arch-rival Benji True.

The Goalie

After finally being promoted to fourth grade in the middle of the year, Joshua is so worried about the bully who rules the fourth grade boys that he makes some unwise decisions.

Joshua T. Bates in Trouble Again

In Washington to avenge the senseless slaughter of his brother, a young actor catches the eye of lovely Annie Blakemore, who, on instinct, follows him through the city

The Train Home

Hoping for a fresh start, Lucy Painter moves back to a small Washington neighborhood as the Watergate scandal hits and wrestles with her own secrets, including the identity of the father of her children.

You Are the Love of My Life: A Novel

A thrilling and richly drawn family drama about a daughter’s quest to understand her mother’s mysterious death. On the morning of her seventieth birthday, Georgianna Grove receives an unexpected letter that calls her back to Missing Lake, Wisconsin, where her mother was murdered sixty-six years earlier. Georgie’s father had confessed to the murder the next morning and was carted off to a state penitentiary. Haunted by the night that took both her parents away and determined to unearth the truth, Georgie takes her reluctant family on what will become a dangerous canoe trip up the swollen Bone River to return to Missing Lake. Acclaimed novelist Susan Richards Shreve, celebrated for her “refined explorations of parent-child relationships” (Washington Post), captures the tenor of the times with clarity and elegance as she follows both Georgie and her parents on parallel trips up the Bone River, weaving together the hope of June 2008 with the injustices of June 1941. Georgie must untangle a web of bigotry, loss, and half-forgotten memories to finally understand her parents’ fate. More News Tomorrow is a stirring and irresistible portrait of a family drawn together in search of truth.

More News Tomorrow: A Novel

Judy Blume

Daniel Manus Pinkwater

Jerry Spinelli

Patricia MacLachlan

Gathers selections from stories by Judy Blume, Clyde Robert Bulla, Beverly Cleary, Terri Fields, Johanna Hurwitz, Astrid Lindgren, Patrical MacLachlan, Colleen O'Shaughnessy McKenna, Patricia C. McKissack, Daniel Pinkwater, Susan Shreve, and Jerry Spinelli

It's Fine to Be Nine

An “engrossing” memoir of finding comfort, company—and mischief—at the famed Georgia retreat for children with polio (Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh Air). Just after her eleventh birthday, Susan Richards Shreve was sent to the Polio Foundation in Warm Springs, Georgia. Famously founded by Franklin Delano Roosevelt after he was disabled by the disease himself, the haven would be her home, off and on, for the next two years. In this piercingly honest memoir, Shreve recaptures her early adolescence, as well as an era of American life gripped by a fearful epidemic. At Warm Springs, Shreve found herself in a community of similarly afflicted children, and for the first time she was one of the gang. Away from her protective mother, she became a feisty troublemaker and an outspoken ringleader. She navigated first love, rocky friendships, religious questions, and family tensions—and experienced healing of all kinds. During her stay, the Salk vaccine would be discovered, ensuring that Shreve would be among the last Americans to have suffered childhood polio. “This sensitive, beautifully written memoir can stand on its own as a glimpse into an era of suffering, and as a testimony to the human spirit.” —The Atlanta Journal-Constitution “Shreve succeeds at the difficult task of recapturing, and communicating, what it was like to be young.” —People “Part memoir, part confession, part mediation on both polio and the president who made it a national cause, Warm Springs unflinchingly illuminates an iconic moment in American history.” —O, The Oprah Magazine

Traces of a Childhood at FDR's Polio Haven

Warm Springs

Twenty selections explore contemporary relationships between Black and white women, questions of identity, and competition for equality

Black Women & White Women Write about Race

Skin Deep

Lucy Childs and Rosie Treeman, two sixth-graders who love to invent psychiatric case histories, suddenly find themselves over their heads in a dangerous case involving an abandoned baby.

Lucy Forever, Miss Rosetree, and the Stolen Baby

“Spare, elegant and absolutely riveting.” —People It’s 1973 and the Watergate scandal is on everyone’s lips. Lucy Painter, a children’s book illustrator and single mother of two, leaves New York and the married father of her children to return to Washington, DC, to the neighborhood where she grew up and the house where her father committed suicide. Lucy hopes for a fresh start, but her life is full of secrets: her children know nothing of her father’s death or the identity of their own father. As new neighbors enter their insular lives, her family’s safety and stability become threatened. Beautifully told, You Are the Love of My Life is a story of how shame leads to secrets, secrets to lies, and how lies stand in the way of human connection.

Presents essays by thirty of America's most acclaimed authors, including Julia Alvarez, Alice Walker, Nikki Giovanni, Joyce Carol Oates, and John Edgar Wideman, sharing memories of growing up in America.

Susan Richards Shreve

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