Laurel-leaf books

Having been imprisoned when the Confederation of Consolidated Republics, a foreign power, conquered Los Angeles in 2056, fourteen-year-old Cody escapes and endures hardship to become the underground hero the White Fox.

Six parentless kids ranging in age from 5 to 18 run away from the orphanage and, as a family, successfully establish a household miles away until local do-gooders begin investigating.

Sam's oral history project about a legendary jazz musician and a dispute with a troublemaking classmate enliven his first year at Burr Academy.

On a New England bridge, schoolchildren are being held hostage, and drawn into the intrigue are the sixteen-year-old terrorist, Miro, the young bus driver, Kate, and Ben, whose father heads a secret government agency.

A seventeen-year-old boy trying to recover from the loss of his girlfriend meets an unusual girl.

A teenage girl struggles to understand her place within her family and in the world.

A collection of eight short stories in which a variety of special characters experience the transfiguring power of love.

Bonnie and her cousin Sylvia don't know the trouble in store for them when Bonnie's parents leave them in the care of the terrible Miss Slighcarp.