Written in the form of letters, this novel traces the friendship of two penpals, teenage girls, one of whom is serving time inside. When the letters suddenly cease, it is left to the remaining penpal to try and find out what has...
Pen pals
- Author:Marsden, JohnSummary:
- Author:Alifirenka, Caitlin, Ganda, Martin, Welch, LizSummary:
It started as an assignment. Everyone in Caitlin's class wrote to an unknown foreign student. In Zimbabwe Martin received a letter than started a six year friendship. In this compelling memoir, Caitlin and Martin recount how they became...
- Author:TinneanSummary:
Holidays are for lovers, just apparently not Ben Haggerty. Not this holiday. After his degree-seeking lover leaves humble blue-collar Ben, Ben spends the Yuletide miserable. He's not accustomed to being alone, not after seven years....
- Author:Young, BerylSummary:
What thirteen-year-old boy wants to travel on a hopeless quest to India with his grandmother? Not Ben Leeson, whose anger about his father’s recent death has led him to escape into the isolated world of computer games. India is the last...
- Author:Sand-Eveland, CyndiSummary:
When sixth-grader Gene Tucks moves South, she dreads being the new kid at school and almost everything else about her life as a "nobody". But what she dreads most is the hundred-day journal-writing assignment her teacher has given the...