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.
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.
While still adjusting to the reality of having two families, her birth family and the family into which she was kidnapped as a small child, seventeen-year-old Janie makes a shocking discovery about her long-gone kidnapper
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?
