by Norma Fox Mazer (1995)
As she watches her friends with their fathers, fourteen-year-old Jessie decides the family she shares with her mother and her great-great-aunt is not enough, so she sets out to learn more about the father who left when she was just a baby.
Patrick K. Dawson
Elizabeth Finch, a 42 year old mother, wife and successful pediatric surgeon living in a Chicago suburb is faced with a personal tragedy. Her experiences result in the unraveling of her perfect life, leading her to reevauate her faith and marriage through the wisdom of an unexpected source, while tackling preconceived concepts of race, gender, belief in God and her purpose.
Siobhán Parkinson
To Hal, Fridays are blue, and tangy, like blue lemon sherbert. Olivia thinks he's crazy - Friday is just like Friday, isn't it? Olivia is pretty sure that Hal's mysterious plan to get rid of his not-quite-stepfather, Alec, is even weirder - But things don't go quite as either Hal or Olivia expected.
Mary Peace Finley
Leaving her home in Taos, Mexico, in 1845, thirteen-year-old Teresita joins a wagon train, hoping to find both her brother Julio and a new life for herself that is different from that of her mother.
Roland Merullo
"Eight years after Breakfast with Buddha skeptic Otto Ringling and Mongolian monk Volya Rinpoche set off across America on another unexpected road trip of discovery--from Indian reservations and farming towns to Colorado's New Age culture and the nonspiritual streets of Las Vegas"--