Doris Buchanan Smith Books
Tough Chauncey
Abused by his grandfather and neglected by his mother, a "tough" thirteen-year-old sees running away as the only solution to changing his life until a friend open his eyes to an alternative.
Read MoreLaura upside-down
Ten-year-old Laura must deal with her unease about her lack of religious upbringing, when her best friends are Jewish and Christian, and with her feelings for a mysterious neighbor who seems to be...
Read MoreLast was Lloyd
A friendless, overweight twelve-year-old with an overprotective mother begins to change the monotonous pattern of his life.
Read MoreThe first hard times
Devoted to the memory of her father, who has been missing in action in Vietnam for more than ten years, Ancil has difficulty accepting her new stepfather. A companion volume to "Last Was Lloyd."
Read MoreThe pennywhistle tree
A rift develops in the closeness shared by eleven-year-old Jonathon and his best friends when a new boy moves onto the street and insists on pushing himself into Jonathon's life.
Read MoreRemember the red-shouldered hawk
Twelve-year-old John-too is dismayed when his grandmother, who has come to live with his family, begins to experience increasing incidents of confusion and memory loss.
Read More