Audrey Couloumbis
1) Lexie
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
When ten-year-old Lexie goes with her father to the beach for a week, she is surprised to find that he has invited his girlfriend and her two sons to join them for the entire week.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
After the death of the stern aunt who raised them since they were orphaned, eleven-year-old Sallie and her fifteen-year-old sister escape their self-serving guardians and begin an adventure resembling those in the dime novels Sallie loves to read.
3) Jake
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
When ten-year-old Jake's widowed mother breaks her leg just before Christmas while her sister and best friend are both away, a grandfather Jake barely remembers must come to Baltimore, Maryland, to help a neighbor take care of him.
5) Summer's end
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Three teenaged cousins worry about their uncle who is missing in Vietnam, their brothers--the one who was drafted and the two who are dodging the draft, and the effects of their absence on the four generations gathered at the family farm in the summer of 1965.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Due to a misunderstanding over her involvement in a botched robbery, Maude, with younger sister Sallie, hides out at the home of an uncle, but when she is discovered and arrested, the orphaned sisters flee, trying to clear Maude's name.
7) Say yes
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
In her efforts to hang on following the disappearance of her stepmother, Casey resorts to anything including robbery.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Elvira worries about her future when, after a fight, her father heads to Las Vegas for an Elvis impersonator competition and her pregnant mother takes her and her younger sister to Memphis to visit a grandmother the girls have never met.
