Caroline Cooney discovered her passion for writing in sixth grade, inspired by a teacher who used magazine covers as prompts for short stories. This early encouragement led her to pursue writing relentlessly. She found a particular affinity for suspense novels, drawn to their inherent action and excitement. To ensure authenticity in her young adult narratives, Cooney actively engages with teenagers by visiting schools and collaborating on plot development, keeping her stories grounded in reality.
I'm Going to Give You a Polar Bear Hug, written by bestselling author Caroline B. Cooney and illustrated by Tim Warnes, imagines all the cozy, warm hugs a child might receive on a frosty winter day. If you're looking for a cuddle up, read-aloud, giggle along story to share with your little ones ... you've found it!
I'm Going to Give You a Bear Hug!, written by bestselling author Caroline B. Cooney, is a playful and comforting bedtime book that imagines all the wonderful ways a child might give and receive a hug, now in softcover.
Not everyone is lucky at Christmas. Some people would call 16-year-old Liz Kitchell and her family truly fortunate, but it doesn't feel that way to her. It seems that only a miracle can give 8-year-old Katie her holiday wish. She wants a family, something she does not have as a foster child. As for 17-year-old Matt, he too is in a foster home and is finally letting himself feel a sense of belonging. When he allows himself to do a good deed for Katie, he doesn't realize what would happen. Is the spirit of Christmas strong enough to grant the impossible?
In the vein of psychological thrillers like We Were Liars, Girl on the Train, and Beware That Girl, bestselling author Caroline Cooney’s JANIE series delivers on every level. Mystery and suspense blend seamlessly with issues of family, friendship and love to offer an emotionally evocative thrill ride of a read. Janie Johnson has received unwanted attention ever since she recognized her three-year-old self in a picture on the back of a milk carton and learned that she was the victim of a kidnapping. Now she's headed for college to make a fresh start. Janie's kidnapper has been hiding all these years and is just as desperate to become a new person--and more determined than ever to seek revenge. In this riveting conclusion to Cooney's beloved JANIE series, all will be revealed as readers find out if Janie and Reeve's love has endured, and whether or not the person who brought Janie and her family so much emotional pain and suffering is brought to justice.
A fresh perspective on MACBETH from one of today's foremost YA writers. Three girls witness the action of Shakespeare's play firsthand -- and their lives are forever changed because of it. Lady Mary is a ward of Lord and Lady Macbeth whose life is forever changed when her father, Lord Cawdor, betrays the Scottish king -- and is hanged as a traitor. In an instant, Mary has lost both her father and future. Now she's trapped in a castle with a power-hungry couple who will do anything to get what they want -- and are willing to crush anyone in their way. Including Mary. As the murderous events of Shakespeare's play unfold around her, Mary must struggle to survive -- and do what she can to prevent more deaths. But can a lone girl save lives when a legion of Scottish lords cannot?
The members of two families have their lives disrupted when a teenage girl who had been kidnapped twelve years earlier discovers that the people who raised her are not her biological parents. Sequel to "The Face on the Milk Carton."
While conducting research for a school paper on smallpox, Mitty finds an envelope containing 100-year-old smallpox scabs and fears that he has infected himself and all of New York city.
Janie’s two families appear to have made peace. Life seems almost normal. She’s even decided to speak to her former boyfriend, Reeve, again. But then Janie’s Connecticut father suffers a sudden stroke, and this tragedy leaves her mother reeling. Janie must step in to manage family finances and to support her mother emotionally. While handling her father’s business matters, Janie discovers the one undeniable fact that could destroy both of her beloved families. And she alone must decide what to do.
Fifteen-year-old Janie feels devastated when she discovers that her boyfriend has betrayed her and her family through his college radio program
When a girl she had met at an innercity church is murdered, fifteen-year-old Macey channels her grief into a school project that leads her to uncover prejudice she had not imagined in her grandparents and their wealthy Connecticut community. An ALA Quick Pick. Reissue.
High school has ended for the five girls of Saturday Night, Last Dance and New Year's Eve, and they're having one last perfect party together before they start new lives - on their own.Anne's new job is the chance of a lifetime - but does it mean losing Con for ever?Kip is off to college in New York - is this her chance to take on the world at last?Emily and Matt had planned for a perfect future together - so how come he's talking about leaving her behind?Beth Rose is feeling left out because all her friends are leaving town. Soon she'll be on her own - unless tonight brings her a new romance...Molly has the perfect way to take a final revenge - but will hurting Emily really get her what she wants?
Losing her entire memory after witnessing a terrible crime, Hope cannot accept her luxurious life or the man who claims to be her father and finds solace in Mitch McKenna, a college student who may solve her mystery. Original.
"Freddy leads a life of little responsibility, following his own meandering path. His only real attachment is to his memory-challenged grandmother, whose nursing home he regularly visits. His far-flung sisters may belittle his artistic ambitions, and his grandmother only occasionally knows who he is, but he can go with the flow. When another nursing home resident is murdered, though, Freddy panics. He can't take care of his grandmother alone, and a hiccup in his less-than-legal side business is causing extra complications--complications that could be deadly. To stay safe, he'll have to straighten up and face the music"-- Provided by publisher
Only a scandal could tear them apart. She is Annabel Jayquith. The only daughter of billionaire Hollings Jayquith. Just eighteen and stunningly beautiful, she feels the world is hers. He is Daniel Madison Ransom. The only son of the assassinated Senator Madison Ransom. Incredibly good-looking and famous, he's considered one of the country's sexiest young men. They meet at a high-society party, and are instantly drawn to each other by a love so strong it threatens to overwhelm them. Annabel knows only that she loves Daniel more than any man she's ever met. But Daniel knows more: that their families are linked by a dark and violent secret. A secret so terrible it makes their love . . . forbidden.
Three teenagers' lives are changed forever when they thoughtlessly steal a stop sign from a dangerous intersection and a young mother is killed in an automobile accident there
No one ever really paid close attention to the faces of the missing children on the milk cartons. But as Janie Johnson glanced at the face of the ordinary little girl with her hair in tight pigtails wearing a dress with a narrow white collar a three-year-old who had been kidnapped twelve years before from a shopping mall in New Jersey-she felt overcome with shock. She recognized that little girl-it was she. How could it possibly be true. Janie can't believe that her loving parents kidnapped her, but she begins to piece things together nothing makes sense. Something is terribly wrong. Are Mr. and Mrs. Johnson really her parents? And if not, who is Janie Johnson and what really happened?
Althea, Devnee, and Lacey all bargain with a vampire for popularity, beauty, and freedom, but are faced with the consequences of their deals when the vampire chooses his victims.
Winter 1704 - Deerfield, Massachusetts. Mercy Carter ist elf und lebt zusammen mit ihrem Vater, ihrer Stiefmutter und ihren Geschwistern in der kleinen englischen Kolonie. In einer kalten Februarnacht wird die Siedlung von Indianern überfallen. Auf beiden Seiten gibt es hohe Verluste. Die Überlebenden, darunter auch Mercy, werden von den Indianern verschleppt. Der lange und beschwerliche Marsch nach Norden fordert Mercy viel Mut und Stärke ab. Als die Siedler und ihre Entführer schließlich das indianische Dorf am St Laurence River in Kanada erreichen, ist Mercy mit der Sprache und den Bräuchen der „Wilden“ bereits vertraut. Und sie vergleicht die Lebensfreude und Naturverbundenheit der Indianer immer häufiger mit ihrem früheren, puritanischen Leben. Als das Lösegeld für die entführten Siedler endlich eintrifft, muss sie eine schwere Entscheidung treffen.
Shelleys größter Wunsch ist es, in einer normalen Familie zu leben. Stattdessen muss sie sich mit einem verrückten, kleinen Bruder und einer verunsicherten Stiefmutter herumschlagen, während ihr Vater die meiste Zeit auf Geschäftsreisen ist. Umso größer ist ihr Entsetzen, als sie und ihre schräge Familie zu Verwandten eingeladen werden, die in jeder Hinsicht perfekt zu sein scheinen. Doch dann findet Shelley heraus, dass auch im Leben der anderen nicht alles so perfekt ist, wie es scheint ...
Anaxandra ist noch ein Kind, als sie von König Nikandros entführt wird. Ihre Eltern und ihre Heimat wird sie nie wieder sehen. Nikandros bringt sie über das Meer, nach Siphnos, wo sie zusammen mit seiner Tochter aufwächst. Doch dann wird die Insel überfallen und geplündert. Anaxandra überlebt als Einzige. Menelaos, König von Sparta, ist es, der sie schließlich rettet. Und so wird sie zum zweiten Mal von einem König über das Meer gebracht. Menelaos nimmt sie mit nach Hause, zu seiner Frau Helena und zu seinen Kindern. Wieder betritt Anaxandra eine völlig neue Welt, wieder muss sie lernen sich anzupassen, um zu überleben. Da kündigt Paris, Prinz von Troja, seinen Besuch an. Und das Schicksal nimmt seinen Lauf ...
