"Gertie is a girl on a mission to be the best fifth grader ever in order to show her estranged mother that Gertie doesn't need her--not one bit!"--Provided by publisher.
The lives of plump, straitlaced, thirty-year-old attorney Rose Feller and her gorgeous, fun-loving, but scattered younger sister, Maggie, change when Maggie comes to live with Rose after yet another eviction.
Provides instructions for raising a happy, healthy mother, including introducing such stress-reducing activities as searching for wiggly worms, painting rainbows, eating snacks, and playing with toys.
The day Mom comes to kindergarten, she is so excited that she forgets all her manners, but her understanding daughter guides her through the day showing her the proper way to behave.
A mystery writer's daughter sets out to find her missing father and, along the way, begins to understand the loneliness that has gripped them both since her mother abandoned them years before.
Seventeen-year-old dirt-bike-riding daredevil Arlo Santiago catches the eye of the U.S. military with his first-place ranking on a video game featuring drone warfare, and must reconcile the work they want him to do with the emotional scars he has suffered following a violent death in his family.
Written in free verse, explores how three teenagers try to cope with the consequences of their mother's addiction to crystal meth and its effects on their lives.
