Caroline B. Cooney

The Face on the Milk Carton

Whatever Happened to Janie?

At college in New York City, Janie Johnson, aka Jennie Spring, seems to have successfully left behind her past as "The face on the milk carton," but soon she, her families, and friends are pursued by a true-crime writer who wants their help in telling her kidnapper's tale.

Janie face to face

A Novel

Wrong Good Deed

While still adjusting to the reality of having two families, her birth family and the family into which she was kidnapped as a small child, seventeen-year-old Janie makes a shocking discovery about her long-gone kidnapper.

What Janie found

After graduating from high school and deciding not to go on to college, a young girl struggles to figure out who she is and what she wants to do with her life.

Party's Over

Saturday Night

The young women at Camp Menunchekogue--"Camp Men" to insiders--get a summer-long lesson in mingling with the opposite sex and experiencing the fun and challenge of independence

Camp Girl-meets-boy

Emily, Hillary and Jennie have always been "The Awesome Threesome"--ever since junior high school, but suddenly things aren't equal anymore. When it begins to seem that Jennie might actually outshine her friends, feelings of jealousy and anger erupt. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Among Friends

Volume Two

The Time Travelers

Flash Fire

It is 1704. Mercy Carter lives in Deerfield, Massachusetts - an English settlement in a divided continent. Death is always close at hand - death from the weather, from the French, and from the Kahnawake Indians. It is a brutal place. And it's about to get worse. When a group of Kahnawake raids Deerfield one icy night, Mercy is captured, with hundreds of other settlers, and dragged by the Indians on a long, long trail to the unknown north. They walk until their feet bleed and their spirits are bowed. They walk with little food, for forty days and nights, three-hundred miles to a Kahnawake village. Some of them don't make it that far - and many of those who do would rather have died on the way. A new life lies in wait. But is it slavery - or a kind of freedom? Mercy, along with her fiercely religious, fiercely English family, had always thought of the Indians as savages. But as she begins to live their life, she becomes one of them...

Mercy

Tory Travis is determined to battle the school board until they provide the same support for girl's sports as they do for boy's.

Nice Girls Don't

While waiting for her first big romance and observing the sometimes rocky love affairs of her parents and brother, sixteen-year-old Kelly develops a board game called Romance. How can a girl have fun with a game if she's only watching from the sidelines? That's what sixteen-year-old Kelly Williams wonders when her best friend, Faith, complains that it's time to stop pretending and find real romance. As Kelly sees her friends, her older brother and even her parents knowingly and unknowingly play at romance, she decides to create a real game - a board game called Romance that captures the way people behave in matters of love and dating. From broken hearts to happily ever after, Caroline Cooney's inventive novel is sure to capture readers' hearts.

The girl who invented romance

When she is left as the sole survivor of the island where she was once a playmate for a princess, Anaxandra takes on the role as Princess Callisto herself when found by Menelaus and taken to his kingdom in Sparta. Reader's Guide available.

Goddess of Yesterday

A Story of MacBeth

Enter Three Witches

Scottie-Anne's older sister is a "professional" participant in beauty contests, but Scottie-Anne wants nothing to do with what she considers the shallow, egotistical world of pageants--until her school holds one. When Scottie-Anne is chosen to participate in a weekend study program at Yale University, she wonders why brains don't get the recognition that beauty gets. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Twenty Pageants Later

DIVDIVThe most popular girl in her class has to cope with hard truths after high school graduation as she wonders, Now what?/divDIV Prom queen. Captain of the cheerleading squad. Girlfriend of the most popular guy in school. Westerly High senior Helen Miranda Revness—Hallie to her friends—has it all. She just wishes everyone would stop talking about where they’re going to college—and asking her why she’s not applying to schools. Hallie has zero interest in four more years of teachers and term papers./divDIV After graduation and an unforgettable summer of parties and romance, everyone—including her boyfriend, Jaz—heads off to college. Hallie is no longer part of a couple or a crowd. Her family, in which she had to grow up fast, is more chaotic and scattered than ever. She tries to get a job, but discovers that a high school diploma will only take her so far. After a shattering heartbreak, she finally has to confront the reality of who she is and where she’s going./divDIV “This sensitive picture of a young woman coming to terms with hard truths about adulthood and growing up in the process is well populated with believable characters. An involving . . . depiction of what it means to rethink basic values.” —Kirkus Reviews/div/div

The Party's Over

The third story of a trilogy sees the evil Shevvingtons determined to destroy Christina before they leave town. Sequel to The snow. Suggested level: junior secondary.

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