Okimoto, Jean Davies

Grace is a little dog wiht big dreams. SHe wants to be a seeing-eye dog but she is too smalll for guide dog school. What will happen when Grace is discovered by Chrlie, a deaf man who takes her to a hearing dog program?.

Raised on a commune by a granola-munching ex-hippie mother, fifteen-year-old Moonbeam realizes that nothing is normal in his life and so sets out to change things.

Awkward and shy, sixteen-year-old Jason finds self-confidence and a new purpose in his lonely life when he answers a job ad and meets and befriends eighty-year-old Bertha Jane Fillmore and the young Vietnamese refugee girl who is staying with her.

Twelve-year-old Jane and her grandfather, both of whom have suffered losses, help each other reach out, make new friends, and change their lives.

Raised on a commune by a granola-munching ex-hippie mother, fifteen-year-old Moonbeam realizes that nothing is normal in his life and so sets out to change things.

Seventeen-year-old Rodney, who wants to become a famous Japanese American rap musician, tries out for the school talent show.

With the help of a hearing-impaired man, a little dog finally manages to graduate from a training school for hearing dogs.

Newly arrived from Kazakhstan, twelve-year-old Maya Alazova resents the way her mother babies her brother, but when she leaves her English Language Learner program for mainstream classes and has to deal with a boy, a bully, and conflict at home, she finds her brother can help with their new culture in ways their parents can't.

When her mother remarries, 12-yearold Cynthia faces two major changes at the same time: step-brothers and junior high school.