Patricia Hermes
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Sarah Morrow doesn't think much of the fact that her mother winced a little when she hugged her. In fact, that first small indication of something wrong escapes the whole family. Three weeks later though there can be no escape. Sarah's mother has been diagnosed with incurable cancer and the love this family shares becomes a desperate clinging.
But Sarah's mother has a gift. A gift for reaffirming life. And even as she leaves
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Series
Emma Dilemma volume 1
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Emma tries to help her parents understand that, although their beloved new nanny has made a few mistakes, no one can behave perfectly responsibly all the time.
Author
Series
Emma Dilemma volume 3
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish Children
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
When Emma and her brothers and sisters want to get a kitten and another ferret, and Emma wants their nanny to be the chaperone on her soccer team trip instead of her mother, the children decide to go on strike to try to force their parents to meet their demands.
Author
Series
Emma Dilemma volume 4
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish Children
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Emma O'Fallon finds herself in increasing difficulties at home and at school as her determined efforts to break up the growing attachment between Irish nanny Annie and her boyfriend Bo cause chaos on a family camping trip and Emma's relationship with her best friend Luisa seems to be going from bad to worse.
6) Koda
Author
Series
Horse diaries volume 3
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Traveling with his owners from Missouri to Oregon in 1848, Koda, an energetic two-year-old quarter horse, finds the long journey increasingly tedious and tiring until his young owner goes missing on the trail and he must use all his skills to find her.
8) Black Cloud
Author
Series
Horse diaries volume 8
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Despite the dangers, Black Cloud enjoys his life as a wild mustang colt in 1951 Nevada but when humans round up and slaughter his herd, he is rescued by a talkative girl named Annie who gives him a safe and comfortable life, lacking nothing but freedom.
Author
Series
Emma Dilemma volume 2
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Emma and her siblings plot to keep their beloved nanny Annie from going on a three-week vacation and leaving them in the care of the totally uncool, animal-hating Mrs. Potts.
Author
Series
Emma Dilemma volume 6
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Emma's happy summer of soccer camp with best friend Luisa and visits to Rooney, the beloved old horse at the nearby stables where Annie the nanny helps out, changes when she discovers that Rooney is being sold and Luisa has some unhappy news.
Author
Series
Emma Dilemma volume 5
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish Children
Pub. Date
©2010
Language
English
Description
Emma struggles with finding the perfect time to confess to her parents that she brought her pet ferret on vacation to Maine, and trying to save her favorite tree that a new neighbor wants to cut down.
