La Porte County Public Library System

Sixth-grader Meg Summers and her family move to a new state every few years as her alcoholic father tries to get a fresh start, but when they land in Indiana and Meg finally makes a real friend and begins to talk about her family's problems, they all find the strength to try to change their destiny.

Papa Bear learns a lesson in the importance of acceptance when a new family of pandas moves in across the road. DONATED BY MRS. FLODDER'S T-1 CLASS, 1994, 1995.

When she takes a beating from the class bully, Sister Bear learns a valuable lesson in self-defense-and forgiveness. DONATED BY MR. HELLER'S FOURTH GRADE CLASS, 94-95.

When Nancy's friend Andrea enters her silver Persian into the cat show, she loses more than just a contest. She loses her cat! Its a cold hearted case of kitty-kidnapping. Nancy can't rest until she brings the thief to justice.

The Boxcar Children are going to Montvale college to help their grandfather at a convention of young astronomers. The children get to look at stars and plants at the observatory. But then some valuable information and one of the students disappears.

Two aristocratic sisters in ancient Japan disguise themselves as samurai warriors to take revenge on the uncle who betrayed their family.

A sixteen-year-old farmhand is tricked into fighting in the Napoleonic Wars by the farmer for whom he works, who secretly substitutes him for the farmer's own son.

Arthur invites some friends to sleep over in a tent. Everything goes well until D.W. decides to have some fun. DONATED BY MRS. OGLE'S THIRD GRADE CLASS, 1995-1996.

For twenty years Claire Randall has kept her secrets. But now she is returning with her grown daughter to Scotland's majestic mist-shrouded hills. Here Claire plans to reveal a truth as stunning as the events that gave it birth: about the mystery of an ancient circle of standing stones ... about a love that transcends the boundaries of time ... and about James Fraser, a Scottish warrior whose gallantry once drew a young Claire from the security of...

"The Barnes family is in trouble. Dickie's once-lucrative car business is going under--but rather than face the music, he's spending his days in the woods, building an apocalypse-proof bunker with a renegade handyman. His wife Imelda is selling off her jewelry on eBay, while their teenage daughter Cass, formerly top of her class, seems determined to binge-drink her way through her final exams. And twelve-year-old PJ is putting the final touches to...