Pines and Plains Libraries

"Johanna, Rasheedah, and Rachel each became an unmarried mother while she was still in her teens. With the birth of her baby, each girl's 'ordinary' teen life was over. After Rasheedah's baby was born, all she could do was cry. She didn't know anything about babies. She didn't even dare touch this screaming, demanding stranger. Her depression grew as her dreams of college vanished into thin air. Rachel wanted to be popular. Boys liked her. But...

When Franco Silva and his father help Todd Bardo arrange a salvage dive in Ecuador they are hopeful they will find sunken treasure.

Oliver's mother dies when he is born and he is brought up in a workhouse. His first years are cold and lonely - and then he runs away to London. But he falls into the hands of Fagin and the terrifying Bill Sykes. They try to turn Oliver into a criminal. Will he escape to find a better life?

The stories of three women who turned their lives around by learning how to read.

"Silvia Broome is an interpreter at the United Nations. One night she hears a plan to kill the President of the African state of Matobo. Agent Tobin Keller of the US Secret Service must stop the killers. But is Silvia telling the truth? Is she hiding something from him? Is she more dangerous than the President's other enemies?"

Junie B is very upset when a boy in her class plans to invite everyone except her to his birthday party, but her grandfather helps her deal with the situation.

When Polly Stubbs discovers her new neighbors are suffragettes, fighting for women's rights to vote, Polly is intrigued and determines to join the suffragettes' protest march.

Ten African American men from a wide range of backgrounds were asked to tell what they would say to challenge African American young men toward success