M. E Kerr
Author
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Formats
Description
M. E. Kerr’s first novel—hailed by the New York Times as a “timely, compelling,” and “brilliantly funny” look at adolescence and friendship
It was bad enough that they had to move to Brooklyn—Brooklyn Heights, as Tucker Woolf’s dad instructs him to tell everyone after he loses his job. Now his father has suddenly developed an allergy to Tucker’s cat, Nader, a nine-month-old...
It was bad enough that they had to move to Brooklyn—Brooklyn Heights, as Tucker Woolf’s dad instructs him to tell everyone after he loses his job. Now his father has suddenly developed an allergy to Tucker’s cat, Nader, a nine-month-old...
2) Gentlehands
Author
Pub. Date
1978
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
830L
Physical Desc
183 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Buddy Boyle makes a shattering discovery about his family in this powerful and poignant novel by award-winning author M. E. Kerr Buddy Boyle lives with his parents and younger brother in a small house on a half-acre of land in undesirable Seaville, New York. Skye Pennington spends her summers on the opposite end of town on five acres with a view of the ocean. Buddy's dad is a police sergeant; Skye's is the head of a multi-million-dollar...
3) Linger
Author
Pub. Date
1993
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
820L
Physical Desc
213 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In this novel by the award-winning author of Gentlehands and Slap Your Sides, a teenager starts to look at life differently when his older brother is sent to the Persian Gulf To sixteen-year-old Gary Peel, Linger is home. His father is manager of the Pennsylvania restaurant; his mom takes care of the books; and Gary's older brother, Bobby, works there as a waiter. That is, until he decides to join the army. The only one from their hometown to enlist,...
Author
Pub. Date
1994
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
690L
Physical Desc
177 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Award-winning author M. E. Kerr challenges stereotypes in this story about a fifteen-year-old grappling with his older sister's sexuality Parr Burrman lives with his parents and his older brother and sister on a farm in Missouri. They're a typical Midwestern family-except for one thing. Parr's father thinks Evie's going to marry Cord Whittle, who's had a crush on her forever, and settle down in their hometown to help out with the farm. Instead, she...
Author
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
700L
Physical Desc
198 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
World War II comes to a small Pennsylvania town in this thought-provoking novel about a peace-loving Quaker family War may be raging in Europe, but in Sweet Creek, Pennsylvania, peace is being waged. Bud Shoemaker is vehemently opposed to the war when he registers for the draft as a conscientious objector. No one except his Quaker family shares Bud's pacifist views-although his thirteen-year-old brother, Jubal, wonders what kind of Quaker he'll be...
Author
Pub. Date
1982
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
208 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The daughter of faith-healing Christians and the son of a TV evangelist are the stars of this lively cautionary tale about religion, family, faith, and love I start my story with the day I first saw Jesse Pegler. That was when my whole life first started changing. Sixteen-year-old Opal Ringer is the daughter of Royal Ringer, the Pentecostal leader of a motley flock of down-on-their-luck believers. Jesse Pegler is the son of Brother Pegler. An "evangelist...
Author
Pub. Date
1981
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
910L
Physical Desc
183 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder in this unusual love story Little Little La Belle isn't redundant. She's a dwarf-a beautiful blond heiress who lives a pampered existence in the New York town named after her family. With her eighteenth birthday approaching, her parents want to marry Little Little off to the perfect man. Enter Sydney Cinnamon. Orphaned young, he went on to become one of America's most famous dwarfs. The pint-size TV performer could...
8) Night kites
Author
Pub. Date
1986
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
760L
Physical Desc
216 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
What do you do when your whole world is blown apart? A seventeen-year-old confronts love, betrayal, and his brother's illness in this brave, deeply compassionate novel by M. E. Kerr Life is going great for Seaville High senior Erick Rudd. He's a good student, he has a girlfriend he'll probably marry, and he's on a straight path to college. Then his best friend's girlfriend lets him know she's attracted to him. Seventeen going on twenty-five, Nicki...
Author
Pub. Date
1987
Edition
1st Harper Keypoint ed.
Physical Desc
170 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
A teenager whose parents have separated tries to adapt to life at a boarding school and make a fresh start in a strange new place After her mother runs off with her much-younger boyfriend, fourteen-year-old Flanders is shipped off to a boarding school in Virginia. On the train, she meets Carolyn Cardmaker, a preacher's daughter who will become her best friend. She also meets Ernestine Blue. Miss Blue is Flanders's faculty advisor at the Charles School,...
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
810L
Physical Desc
229 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Set during the Depression, this haunting historical novel by M. E. Kerr follows two teenage girls-one German, the other American-whose friendship plays out against the quickly shifting political world stage Jessie Myrer is the daughter of the prison warden in Cayuta County, where there are few foreigners and even fewer Jews. Jessie's provincial views change when she meets her new across-the-street neighbor. At fifteen, sophisticated, German-born Elisa...
12) Fell back
Author
Pub. Date
1991
Edition
1st Haper Keypoint ed.
Lexile measure
730L
Physical Desc
181 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
15) Fell down
Author
Pub. Date
1991
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
690L
Physical Desc
191 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English