Frank Carlson Library

Mourning the loss of his mother, nine-year-old David forms an unlikely friendship with independent, quirky thirteen-year-old Primrose, as the two help each other deal with what is missing in their lives.

It's 1910 in Pownal, Vermont. At 12 Grace and her best friend Arthur must go to work in the mill, helping their mothers work the looms. Together Grace and Arthur write a secret letter to the Child Labor Board about underage children working in the mill. A few weeks later, Lewis Hine, a famous reformer arrives undercover to gather evidence. Grace meets him and appears in some of his photographs, changing her life forever.

Twelve-year-old CeCe Monroe is enrolled at Storm Cliff Stables as Cassidy because she does not want the other girls to know that she is an actress, so when Aunt Jane asks her to assist with the movie that is to be filmed at the stables she is mostly afraid of blowing her cover--but when she realizes that the movie man calling himself Paul Martino is not the man she knows, she finds herself cast in the role of detective.

Right after dance camp ends, Lily Richter's mother announces that the family is moving to a new town. Separated from her best friend, and enrolled in a larger unfamiliar middle school, Lily struggles to adjust, troubled by the feeling that her new dance team does not really want her.

Fourth grader Flo Gardner and her mother have just moved into the Corman Tower Apartment building, and she is pretty sure she does not like it--the boy werewolf next door is alright, but the monster spiders have got to go.

The evil Dr. Micron is in jail, but the scandal at TinkerTech has caused a lot of anti-robot feeling in Terabyte Heights, making life difficult for the ten-year-old robotics genius George Gearing and his robot buddy, Jackbot--especially since Micron is the only person who can help George restore his parents, and his price is a jail-break.

Meri wants to share her magic mirror with her friends, so she has invited her whole reading group to a party--but when nobody else can see Mary Lennox from The secret garden in her mirror she has to lie and say she was making it up.

Thirteen-year-old Janelle loves figure skating, but when she enters a competition she is frustrated because she is not as good at the jumps as another girl at the rink and she starts to wonder if she should just quit--until her coach comes up with an idea.

The year between turning eleven and turning twelve bring many changes for Winnie and her friends.

Colleen is devastated when her best friend changes schools--but when she learns that Meredith is teaching her new cheerleading squad the routine they created together for an upcoming competition their friendship is tested.