Freeing Finch

Freeing Finch
Author: Ginny Rorby
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2019-10-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1250293731

From Ginny Rorby, the author of Hurt Go Happy, winner of ALA’s Schneider Family Book Award, comes Freeing Finch, the inspiring story of a transgender girl and a stray dog who overcome adversity to find love, home, and a place to belong. When her father leaves and her mother passes away soon afterward, Finch can’t help feeling abandoned. Now she’s stuck living with her stepfather and his new wife. They’re mostly nice, but they don’t believe the one true thing Finch knows about herself: that she’s a girl, even though she was born in a boy’s body. Thankfully, she has Maddy, a neighbor and animal rescuer who accepts her for who she is. Finch helps Maddy care for a menagerie of lost and lonely creatures, including a scared, stray dog who needs a family and home as much as she does. As she earns the dog’s trust, Finch realizes she must also learn to trust the people in her life—even if they are the last people she expected to love her and help her to be true to herself. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Hurt Go Happy

Hurt Go Happy
Author: Ginny Rorby
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2016-01-12
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0765379376

"Inspired by the true story of a chimpanzee who learned sign language"--Front cover.

The Outside of a Horse

The Outside of a Horse
Author: Ginny Rorby
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2010-05-13
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1101429445

Hannah Gale starts volunteering at a horse stable because she needs a place to escape. Her father has returned from the Iraq war as an amputee with posttraumatic stress disorder, and his nightmares rock the household. At the stable, Hannah comes to love Jack, Super Dee, and Indy; helps bring a rescued mare back from the brink; and witnesses the birth of the filly who steals her heart. Hannah learns more than she ever imagined about horse training, abuse, and rescues, as well as her own capacity for hope. Physical therapy with horses could be the answer to her fatherÕs prayers, if only she can get him to try.

Lost in River of Grass

Lost in River of Grass
Author: Ginny Rorby
Publisher: Carolrhoda Lab ®
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2013-08-01
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1467731676

"I don't realize I'm crying until he glances at me. For a moment, I see the look of anguish in his eyes, then he blinks it away and slips off into the water. I immediately think of the gator. It's still down there somewhere. . . ." A science-class field trip to the Everglades is supposed to be fun, but Sarah's new at Glades Academy, and her fellow freshmen aren’t exactly making her feel welcome. When an opportunity for an unauthorized side trip on an air boat presents itself, it seems like a perfect escape—an afternoon without feeling like a sore thumb. But one simple oversight turns a joyride into a race for survival across the river of grass. Sarah will have to count on her instincts—and a guy she barely knows—if they have any hope of making it back alive.

How to Speak Dolphin

How to Speak Dolphin
Author: Ginny Rorby
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 199
Release: 2015-05-26
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0545676088

Schneider Family Book Award-winning author Ginny Rorby has created an irresistible dolphin story about a girl's struggle to help her autistic brother and herself. Lily loves her half-brother, Adam, but she has always struggled with him, too. He's definitely on the autism spectrum -- though her step-father, Don, can barely bring himself to admit it -- and caring for him has forced Lily to become as much mother as sister. All Lily wants is for her step-father to acknowledge that Adam has a real issue, that they need to find some kind of program that can help him. Then maybe she can have a life of her own. Adam's always loved dolphins, so when Don, an oncologist, hears about a young dolphin with cancer, he offers to help. He brings Lily and Adam along, and Adam and the dolphin -- Nori -- bond instantly. But though Lily sees how much Adam loves Nori, she also sees that the dolphin shouldn't spend the rest of her life in captivity, away from her family. Can Adam find real help somewhere else? And can Lily help Nori regain her freedom without betraying her family?

The Truth About My Bat Mitzvah

The Truth About My Bat Mitzvah
Author: Nora Raleigh Baskin
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2009-04-28
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1439164061

I put my fingers up to my throat and touched the pointy Star of David, my grandmother's necklace, a delicate chain made up of countless tiny links. If I wear this, will people think I am Jewish? Is that what I want to be? Seventh-grader Caroline Weeks has a Jewish mom and a non-Jewish dad. When Caroline's nana dies around the same time that Caroline's best friend, Rachel, is having her bat mitzvah, Caroline starts to become more interested in her Jewish identity.

Best Nerds Forever

Best Nerds Forever
Author: James Patterson
Publisher: jimmy patterson
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2021-05-03
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0316500666

When a lifelong friendship just isn't long enough, two friends connect from beyond the grave in this heartwarming ghost story from a New York Times bestselling author. One minute, Finn was biking home from school, and the next, he was run off the road by a maniac in a big van. Now, he's a ghost. He can do lots of fun things, like try every ice cream flavor in the store, sneak up on people, and play as many video games as he wants. Finn even has a new ghost friend, Isabella, to show him the ropes. But he also has a lot of BIG questions, like: who wanted him dead? And can he stop the maniac from striking again? Packed with hilarious moments, epic friendships, and fun art, Best Nerds Forever celebrates the nerd in each of us and the joy of living life to its fullest.

Highways to Heaven

Highways to Heaven
Author: Christopher Finch
Publisher:
Total Pages: 424
Release: 1992
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

The history of the automobile in America.

Chains

Chains
Author: Laurie Halse Anderson
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2010-01-05
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1416905863

If an entire nation could seek its freedom, why not a girl? As the Revolutionary War begins, thirteen-year-old Isabel wages her own fight...for freedom. Promised freedom upon the death of their owner, she and her sister, Ruth, in a cruel twist of fate become the property of a malicious New York City couple, the Locktons, who have no sympathy for the American Revolution and even less for Ruth and Isabel. When Isabel meets Curzon, a slave with ties to the Patriots, he encourages her to spy on her owners, who know details of British plans for invasion. She is reluctant at first, but when the unthinkable happens to Ruth, Isabel realizes her loyalty is available to the bidder who can provide her with freedom. From acclaimed author Laurie Halse Anderson comes this compelling, impeccably researched novel that shows the lengths we can go to cast off our chains, both physical and spiritual.

Finding Ruby Starling

Finding Ruby Starling
Author: Karen Rivers
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2014-08-26
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0545534828

The Parent Trap comes to the digital age in this delightful new novel by the author of The Encyclopedia of Me. When Ruth Quayle used a special app to search for pictures of herself online, she found dozens of images of "Ruth Quayle" -- and one of "Ruby Starling." When Ruby Starling gets a message from a Ruth Quayle proclaiming them to be long-lost twin sisters, she doesn't know what to do with it -- until another message arrives the day after, and another one. It could be a crazy stalker ... but she and this Ruth do share a birthday, and a very distinctive ear.... Ruth is an extroverted American girl. Ruby is a shy English one. As they investigate the truth of their birth and the circumstances of their separation, they also share lives full of friends, family, and possible romances -- and they realize they each may be the sister the other never knew she needed. Written entirely in e-mails, letters, Tumblr entries, and movie scripts, Finding Ruby Starling is the funny and poignant companion to Karen Rivers's The Encyclopedia of Me.