Valerie O. Patterson Books
The other side of blue
The summer after her father's drowning, Cyan and her mother, a painter, return to the house they stay at every summer, but Cyan blames her mother and spends her time trying to find out what really...
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Cyan was named after a shade of blue, her artist mother's favorite color. The color of the sea. Since her father's death last year, she’s felt just as mercurial and dark as her namesake, and the di...
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The summer after her father drowned off the island of Curaçao, Cyan and her mother, a painter, return to the house they stay at every summer, along with the daughter of her mother's fiancé, but Cya...
Read MoreOperation Oleander
Seventh-grader Jess and her friends establish the Order of the Oleander to collect supplies for an orphanage in Kabul, Afghanistan, where two of their parents are deployed, but when disaster strike...
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