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The Face on the Milk Carton

by Caroline B. Cooney

A young girl is shocked to discover the face on a milk carton is her face when she was a young child. Are her parents her real parents, or was she kidnapped as a young child?.

Suffering an identity crisis after reuniting with her biological family, Janie realizes that the past twelve years cannot be brought back, and is torn between the Spring family's desire for justice and her love for the Johnsons. Reprint. AB. PW.

Janie Series

The voice on the Radio

by Caroline B. Cooney

The Voice on the Radio, now in paperback, is the highly anticipated companion to The Face on the Milk Carton and Whatever Happened to Janie?, by best selling author Caroline B. Cooney: Janie's life finally seems to be settling down. But she really misses Reeve Shields, her boyfriend who is away at college. Reeve is overwhelmed by his new college life, and when he is asked to host a late-night radio show,... (more)

Code Orange

by Caroline B. Cooney

Walking around New York City was what Mitty Blake did best. He loved the city, and even after 9/11, he always felt safe. Mitty was a carefree guy–he didn’t worry about terrorists or blackouts or grades or anything, which is why he was late getting started on his Advanced Bio report. Mitty does feel a little pressure to hand something in–if he doesn’t, he’ll be switched out of Advanced Bio, which would be... (more)

If the Witness Lied

by Caroline B. Cooney

Choices do matter and forgiveness is possible. Jack Fountain knows that what’s happened to his family sounds like the most horrible soap opera anyone could ever write. But it happened—to Jack; his parents; his sisters, Smithy and Madison. And to his baby brother, Tris. What made it worse was that the media wanted to know every detail. Now it’s almost Tris’s third birthday, and everything’s starting again.... (more)

Enter Three Witches

by Caroline Cooney

A battle is looming over Scotland, but fourteenyear-old Lady Mary is safe in Inverness Castle, awaiting her marriage to a young squire. As the ward of Lord and Lady Macbeth, Mary has nothing to fear—until her father betrays the king and is hanged as a traitor. In an instant, both her father and her future are lost to her forever. Condemned to spend her days as a scullery maid, Mary becomes a firsthand witness to... (more)

Burning Up

by Caroline B. Cooney

This bestselling author explores the destructive nature of hatred, the crime of indifference, and the power of accepting love and responsibility. Fifteen-year-old Macey Clare has always loved her quiet, beautiful Connecticut hometown. It's the place where her grandparents live, the place where her mother grew up. Macey is looking forward to the summer to come. She's hoping for fun and romance with her neighbor's... (more)

Hit the Road

by Caroline B. Cooney

Brit has had her driver’s license only 11 days when her parents drop her off to stay at her grandmother’s house for two weeks while they go on vacation. Little do they know Brit is headed for a three-state road trip with Nannie to pick up her college roommates, Florence, Aurelia, and Daisy, and bring them to their alma mater for their 65th—and most likely final—reunion. A reluctant recruit at first, Brit is... (more)

Diamonds in the Shadow

by Caroline B. Cooney

THE FINCH FAMILY did not know that five refugees landed from Africa on the day they went to the airport to welcome the family sponsored by their church. The Finch family only knew about the four refugees they were meeting - Andre, Celestine, Mattu, and Alake - mother, father, teenage son and daughter. Soon Jared realizes that the good guys are not always innocent, and he must make a decision that could change the... (more)

The Terrorist (Point)

by Caroline B. Cooney

When terrorist violence in London tears an American family apart, sixteen-year-old Laura becomes obsessed with finding her brother's killer.

Time Travelers Quartet: Book 2

Out of Time

by Caroline B. Cooney

The only person willing to believe that the mysterious Annie Lockwood has traveled back in time, Strat is locked in an asylum for his admission and poses a difficult choice for Annie, who wants to return to her own time. Reprint. AB. "

Time Travelers Quartet: Book 1

Both Sides of Time

by Caroline B. Cooney

A hopeless romantic who feels out of place, fifteen-year-old Annie Lockwood travels through time to 1895, where she is enchanted by the traditions of the period and where she falls in love, but fears she cannot stay. Reprint. SLJ.

A Friend at Midnight

by Caroline B. Cooney

Lily has settled into life in Connecticut after her parent's divorce but it's been harder on her eight-year-old brother Michael. After their mother remarries, her brother chooses to go live with his father in Washington, D.C., until the day he calls home from the Baltimore-Washington Airport where his father has abandoned him....

The Ransom of Mercy Carter

by Caroline B. Cooney

Deerfield, Massachusetts is one of the most remote, and therefore dangerous, settlements in the English colonies. In 1704 an Indian tribe attacks the town, and Mercy Carter becomes separated from the rest of her family, some of whom do not survive. Mercy and hundreds of other settlers are herded together and ordered by the Indians to start walking. The grueling journey -- three hundred miles north to a Kahnawake... (more)

Fire (Med Center)

by Caroline B. Cooney

Christina knows the Shevvingtons have left a trail of hollowed-out, lost girls in mental hospitals across the country, and she has seen the secret files that prove it. But the Shevvingtons are determined to destroy the evidence and Christina. This time, they'll use fire. They stuff her pocketbook full of matchbooks, scribble flames over her class notes anything they can do to make it look like Christina... (more)

The Fog (Point)

by Caroline B. Cooney

The Shevvingtons are perfect. Mr. Shevvington is the charming, handsome principal of Christina's school. His wife is a dedicated English teacher. When the Autumn fog rolls over the coast, Christian and Anya begin boarding at the Shevvington's home, where Christina discovers that nothing is as it seems. Anya is slowly losing her mind, and Christina knows the Shevvingtons are behind it. But who will take her... (more)

Dumb like me, Olivia Potts

by Lila Perl

When the invitation to the Preffyn family reunion arrives interrupting a perfectly decent summer vacation, 15-year-old Shelley Wollcott is anything but enthusiastic. It’s not that Shelley has anything against her relatives, she just can’t stand it when they give her that “what a pity” look. It’s not her fault that her real mother walked out on the family or that her father has remarried yet again. With Dad away on... (more)

What Child Is This?: A Christmas Story (Laurel-Leaf Books)

What Child Is This?: A Christmas Story (Laurel-Leaf Books)

by Caroline B. Cooney

Not everyone is lucky at Christmas. Some people would call 16-year-old Liz Kitchell and her family truly fortunate, but it doens't feel that way to her. It seems that only a miracle can give 8-year-old Katie her holiday wish. She wants a family, something she does not have as a foster child. As for 17-year-old Matt, he too is in a foster home and is finally letting himself feel a snese of belonging. When he allows... (more)

What Janie Found

by Caroline B. Cooney

Janie’s two families appear to have made peace. Life seems almost normal. She’s even decided to speak to her former boyfriend, Reeve, again. But then Janie’s Connecticut father suffers a sudden stroke, and this tragedy leaves her mother reeling. Janie must step in to manage family finances and to support her mother emotionally. While handling her father’s business matters, Janie discovers the one undeniable fact... (more)

Goddess of Yesterday

by Caroline B. Cooney

Caroline B. Cooney brings to life this epic tale of one girl’s courage. At age six Anaxandra is taken by King Nicander to be a companion to his crippled daughter on the island of Siphnos. Anaxandra has adjusted to her new life when, six years later, Siphnos is sacked by pirates, and she is the sole survivor. When a fleet of ships stops on the island to investigate, she assumes the identity of Princess Callisto... (more)

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