Crossing the Starlight Bridge

By Alice Mead

Nine-year-old Rayanne's life turns upside down when her father leaves and she has to move off the Penobscot reservation and go to live with her grandmother.

Halt den Kurs Kleiner

By Alice Mead

Girl of Kosovo

By Alice Mead

Adem's cross

By Alice Mead

Seeing his sister being shot to death for reading a poem at a demonstration against Serbian control of largely Albanian Kosovo changes forever the life of thirteen-year-old Adem.

Billy and Emma

By Alice Mead

When a robber steals Emma, one of a pair of macaws from the zoo, her partner, Billy, sets out to find her with the help of some other birds.

Dawn and Dusk

By Alice Mead

Girl of Kosovo

By Alice Mead

Although Zana, an eleven-year-old Albanian girl, experiences the turmoil and violence of the 1999 conflict in her native Kosovo, she remembers her father's admonition to not let her heart become fi...

Isabella's Above-Ground Pool

By Alice Mead

Nine-year-old Isabella's motto is "I won't share 'cuz it's not fair," until a tornado destroys a neighbor's house and she realizes that the money she has earned to buy a swimming pool might be put...

Junebug

By Alice Mead

An inquisitive young boy who lives with his mother and younger sister in a rough housing project in New Haven, Connecticut, approaches his tenth birthday with a mixture of anticipation and worry.

Junebug and the Reverend

By Alice Mead

Having moved out of the housing project and into a new home along with his mother and sister, ten-year-old Junebug discovers that bullies are everywhere and that the elderly can make great friends.