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Middle Grade Novels by MaryAnn Easley
I Am the Ice Worm, a Junior Library Guild Selection
After her bush plane crashes above the Arctic Circle, Allison Atwood is lost and alone in an ice world completely different from her home in southern California. She lives with the Iñupiat people as she struggles to find her place in an ice world. When she meets Oolik, an outsider, too, Allison teaches the deaf girl to sign and this makes all the difference. An Arctic adventure. Boyds Mills Press 1-800-949-7777. Scholastic Books under the title Alone in the Ice World. Best buy: Amazon.com
Dog Woman
Ten years after Allison's adventure, another girl from California meets Oolik. In an attempt to run away during a white-out, Laurie Buckner becomes disoriented and lost on the frozen river. When Dog Woman rescues her, Laurie must repay the debt by helping this outsider, a severely challenged and deaf Iñupiat, enter the Iditarod, a dog sled race across Alaska. An Arctic adventure. AmErica House 1-301-631-0747
Belly Up
After
their grandfather's fishing vessel goes down, Rachel and her brother
Boo struggle to survive in a life raft lost at sea. Without food and
water, no radio or compass, and hundreds of miles from home, they
encounter whale, shark, hunger, thirst, and dangerous storms. An
environmental story. Royal Fireworks Press
Looking Out for Lindy
After
her father goes to war, the burden of caring for her retarded sister is
more than Meg can bear. It's enough having a German mother during a war
against Germany and excruciating to learn her father's ship has been
torpedoed by a German submarine. She escapes to the sump field where
other dangers lurk, including prisoners of war. 1st Books
A Few Screws Loose
Lacey
begins ninth grade in the shadow of her mother's bipolar disease.
Embarrassed and alone, she learns the value of friendship as she
encounters people who change and influence her life. Sometimes the life
you save is your own. Told with humor, story deals with real life
issues. Royal Fireworks Press
Warrior's Daughter
When
Anne Marie's father is deployed to Iraq for a second tour of duty, she
faces eighth grade on her own. Dumped by her best friend and linked
with an unpopular newcomer, she suffers one injustice after another.
Assigned to write poetry for classroom competitions and The Diary of Anne Frank
to read, she begins to wage her own battles in new and creative ways.
She discovers, too, that the daughter of a warrior must be a warrior,
too. PublishAmerica 1-301-695-1707 or Amazon.com
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