Books with author Ann Warren Turner

Taunted because of a harelip, Anne has to flee her village, leaving behind everyone and all she has grown to love and hate there. It does not matter the Baron died from the sickness that is sweeping the land, the villagers of Foxleigh blame Anne’s curse. For months she is forced to hide in the great marsh far from home, spending lonely days in solitude. But Anne refuses to give up and spends her days trapping her food and gathering herbs as Gran had taught her – all the while looking ahead to the day when it would be safe to return.

As she did in her groundbreaking memoir, Learning to Swim, Turner takes on a tough subject through luminous poetry. The result is a shattering and healing journey through one boy's loss of a parent.As the pitcher on his HS team, Mark lives and breathes baseball. Sure, there's pressure from his coach and his dad, who both push him hard, but it's nothing that time with his buddy, Eddie, or with his crush, Diane, can't diffuse. But all that changes when Mark's dad is diagnosed with cancer, and everything Mark has ever believed in--love, God, and baseball--is called into question.This profoundly affecting novel in verse traces the physical and emotional journey of a boy in crisis, and all the requisite emotions--anger, denial, fear, bargaining, sadness, & acceptance--that accompany loss.

Ten-year-old Katy goes with her mother to the mountains for summer vacation with expectations of loneliness and boredom. But that is before she meets Lena May, who has wild red hair, crazy clothes, adventures extraordinaire and knowledge of everything--birth, death, kissing. Maybe Katy will discover that she also knows an important thing or two and that it's okay to take a chance.