Melanie Crowder
1) Audacity
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"A historical fiction novel in verse detailing the life of Clara Lemlich and her struggle for women's labor rights in the early 20th century in New York."--
2) Mazie
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Mazie has always longed to be on Broadway. But growing inher small Nebraska town, in 1959, that always seemed like an impossible dream. So when an opportunity presents itself to spend six weeks auditioning, Mazie jumps at the chance, leaving behind everything--and everyone--she's ever known. New York City is a shock to the senses: thrilling, but lonely. Auditions are brutal. Mazie's homesick and she misses the boyfriend whose heart she broke when...
4) Jumper
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Blair Scott is in her second season as a wildland firefighter when the Forest Service puts out a call for an additional class of smokejumpers. She and her best friend Jason both apply, though neither expects to get in since they're only nineteen. But it's been a devastating fire season, and they are both accepted. But going to training camp is only the first step--everyone expects the teenage rookies will wash out in the first week. Blair has always...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Referring to the I-Ching and a trio of good-luck pennies whenever she is bounced to a new foster home, Marin finds herself in a place that feels like a forever home while trying to find her birth mother, before receiving unwelcome news.
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Long ago the dam formed, the lively river turned into a swamp, and the wasting illness came to Luna's village, and now that her little sister is sick Luna will do anything to save her, even offer herself to the creature that lives in the swamp on the day of the nearer moon--a lonely and bitter water sprite who was left behind when her people fled through a door to another world.
Author
Series
Lighthouse keepers volume 1
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
After discovering that the lighthouse his family tends is a portal to strange and dangerous worlds, eleven-year-old Griffin must travel through it to save his father from a threat to all humanity.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Exploring 14 winds of the world, from Japan's blustery oroshi to Hawai'i's sweet-smelling moani, this dynamic collection of poems reflects the characteristics and sometimes the location of each wind--includes sidebars with scientific facts and meteorological details.
9) Parched
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Told from three perspectives, Sarel, who just witnessed the brutal murder of her parents, Nandi, the leader of a pack of dogs who looks out for her pups and Sarel, and Musa, an escaped prisoner with the water song inside him, struggle to survive in a land without water.
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