Amy on Park Patrol

Amy on Park Patrol
Author: Callie Barkley
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2017-05-09
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1481494333

Learning that a nearby park is about to be turned into a shopping center, Amy races against time to save the recreation center and the animal friends who live there.

Marion and the Secret Letter

Marion and the Secret Letter
Author: Callie Barkley
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2017-02-28
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1481487027

Taking a turn caring for the class pet hamster, Marion is devastated when the hamster goes missing and she receives an anonymous letter in her locker with clues leading to a mysterious scavenger hunt.

Nature Noir

Nature Noir
Author: Jordan Fisher Smith
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2006
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780618711956

Smith chronicles his 14 years as a park ranger on a huge tract of government land in the Sierras, illuminating some startling truths about America's wild lands.

Marion and the Girls' Getaway

Marion and the Girls' Getaway
Author: Callie Barkley
Publisher: Little Simon
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2019-09-10
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1534448691

Marion plans a perfect girls weekend for her friends—with a surprise appearance from a snow bunny!—in the twentieth book of the Critter Club series. Marion has planned the ultimate girls’ getaway. There will be skiing, a trip to the spa, and of course, hot chocolate! What Marion didn’t plan was a snow bunny sighting! As members of the Critter Club, she and her friends are so excited to find the most adorable bunny. But when Marion’s kitten, Ollie, scares the bunnies away, Marion scolds him. That’s when she notices he’s been acting a little strange the whole time. What’s wrong with Ollie? And will the girls get to see the bunnies again? With easy-to-read language and illustrations on almost every page, The Critter Club chapter books are perfect for beginning readers!

Ellie Steps Up to the Plate

Ellie Steps Up to the Plate
Author: Callie Barkley
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 106
Release: 2018-01-30
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1534411801

Ellie tries her hand at softball in the eighteenth book of the Critter Club series, but she begins to wonder if she’s only meant for the stage! When Ellie joins a softball team, she quickly realizes that the sport is harder than it looks! Is she meant only for the stage, not the field? And what happens when Ellie goes searching in the woods near the field for a stray ball and finds an injured baby deer?! With easy-to-read language and illustrations on almost every page, The Critter Club chapter books are perfect for beginning readers!

The Last Season

The Last Season
Author: Eric Blehm
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 434
Release: 2009-10-13
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0061869996

"As Jon Krakauer did with Into the Wild, Blehm turns a missing-man riddle into an insightful meditation on wilderness and the personal demons and angels that propel us into it alone.” — Outside magazine Destined to become a classic of adventure literature, The Last Season examines the extraordinary life of legendary backcountry ranger Randy Morgenson and his mysterious disappearance in California's unforgiving Sierra Nevada—mountains as perilous as they are beautiful. Eric Blehm's masterful work is a gripping detective story interwoven with the riveting biography of a complicated, original, and wholly fascinating man.

Summer of Brave

Summer of Brave
Author: Amy Noelle Parks
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2021-03-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0807576611

Kirkus Best Middle-Grade Family Stories of 2021 School Library Journal Best Middle Grade Books 2021 The Best Children's Books of the Year 2022, Bank Street College STARRED REVIEW! "With compassion, wry humor, and pinpoint accuracy, Parks weaves the multiple challenges facing adolescent girls into a compelling, seamless narrative. Timely, insightful, and highly recommended."—Kirkus Reviews starred review STARRED REVIEW! "A first purchase for middle grade collections as well as book clubs for this age range."—School Library Journal starred review A heartfelt coming-of-age story set in the time of academic pressure, divorce, and the #MeToo movement. Twelve-year-old Lilla Baxter-Willoughby doesn't lie. She's just a little bit...selective. So when Vivi dares Lilla to start telling the truth as part of their Summer of Brave, Lilla hesitates. Because if she says out loud what she really wants, her whole life might crash down around her. And she doesn't need that. Except maybe she does.

Liz and the Sand Castle Contest

Liz and the Sand Castle Contest
Author: Callie Barkley
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2015-06-02
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1481424076

Liz deals with some unfriendly competition at the beach and tries to rescue a baby octopus in the eleventh book of The Critter Club series. Liz and her family are at the beach! Liz loves building sand sculptures, so when she sees a flyer for a sand castle competition, of course she enters. She thinks she’s found a new friend when she meets her neighbor Tommy, who is also competing, but Tommy’s not so nice. He teases Liz about the castle she’s building and he laughs when one of the pieces caves in. Then Liz’s castle gets ruined overnight! It’s the day of the contest judging, and Liz no longer has anything to enter. Did Tommy destroy Liz’s sand castle? Plus, Liz finds a baby octopus that needs help! Will she be able to get the octopus back in the ocean and swimming again? With easy-to-read language and illustrations on almost every page, The Critter Club chapter books are perfect for beginning readers!

Lost Virginia Beach

Lost Virginia Beach
Author: Amy Waters Yarsinske
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2011-05-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 1625842325

Join author and historian Amy Waters Yarsinske as she takes one final stroll through a Virginia Beach lost to time. The Oceanfront's Cottage Line, the music halls of Seaside Park and dunes so large they dwarfed the old Cape Henry lighthouse are a memory. Gone, too, are many of the city's iconic landmarks and open spaces, lost to storm, fire and the relentless onslaught of post-World War II development. With a deft hand and rare vintage images, historian Amy Waters Yarsinske recalls a time when the likes of Chuck Berry and Ray Charles played beneath the sizzling lights of the Dome and locals shagged the night away at the Peppermint Beach Club.

Always in Our Hearts

Always in Our Hearts
Author: Doug Most
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2000-04-15
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 1429937262

Amy Grossberg and Brian Peterson grew up in a wealthy New Jersey suburb, meeting and falling in love while still in high school, then set out for college with their classmates. But in November of their Freshman Year, the two young lovers spent a night in a Delaware motel room where, after hiding her pregnancy from her family and her friends for nine months, Amy gave birth to a baby boy. Only she and Brian knew the child even existed . . . until the next morning when the newborn's corpse turned up in the motel dumpster. The case caused a countrywide outrage, and the teenagers ended up in court, desperately fighting for their lives and ultimately against each other... Always in Our Hearts is the true story of a couple driven to kill their newborn child and the murder that shocked the nation.