This was such a great book! If you went to High School in the 1980's, it is a MUST READ! A TOTAL MUST READ! Like, Totally!This is the story of Jennifer Niven McJunkin. She moved from her old town to a new one when she was just in forth grade, and she had to get used to her new town in Richmond, I...
The year was 1913, polar expeditions had become the Last Great Adventure, and the names of Scott, Peary, and Shackleton were household words. Vilhjalmur Stefansson, a lesser-known Arctic explorer, persuaded the Canadian government to fund an expedition that he hoped would raise him to the same pa...
Truly, never had human potential reached such staggering heights. For RHS, it was a proud moment. —1986 Pierian In the days when the Richmond High School speech team was at its best, when we were bringing back trophies and ribbons at every meet, when each team member was a winner, we got up early...
A lone lightbulb burned bright over the door to Deal’s General Store, but the school, the church, and the houses were completely black. The moon shone from a different angle in the sky, the same moon we saw in Civility. I had never seen Alluvial so dark and silent before. Somewhere I could hear t...
Bartlett and the others had to carry him to the Jesse Lee Home Hospital. He had started feeling ill on October 1, 1914, and a day or so later his face and neck were badly swollen into blistering red patches. He had a high fever and headaches and he couldn’t move. But the doctors knew instantly wh...
While the brothers are at battle, Mallory and her sister, Anne (Phoebe Phillips)—secretly pining for Daniel—protect the family homestead, and Mallory smuggles secrets to the Patriots. Six years after the story begins, at war’s end—after he has lost his brother and all of his friends and nearly lo...
Geography, Amanda tells Roamer to go on ahead and she’ll catch up. I haven’t spoken a word to him since Finch got expelled. “I need to tell you something,” she says to me. “What?” I haven’t said much to her either. “You can’t tell anyone.” “Amanda, I’m going to be late for class.” “Promise first....
I sat on the flight line wishing for a real uniform and not a big, baggy zoot suit—something smart and stylish in a pretty color and not something that made me look like a mechanic or a service-station attendant. I was sick and tired of looking like a boy. Today I wore my hair down instead of in ...