Books with author Carol Beach York

Julie had lived her life at 912 Linton Street. But the things she was telling me now had nothing to do with Linton Street. She dragged a sled up a snowy hill behind her house...but there was no hill on Linton Street. She scratched patterns with her fingernails on frosty windowpanes that looked out on a brick courtyard that was not on Linton Street. People came and went around her with the rustle of long skirts. Pleasant memories of some childhood that the Julie Wintcomb I knew had never known. But not all memories were pleasant...

When Roger first looked up at the tree house, he thought he saw something moving at the window. No one should be there -- the tree house belonged to the Mayfairs. It was in the deep woods that surrounded their new house in the country. Still, strange things happened each time Roger and his sister, Anabelle, tried to explore the tree house. Once Roger heard mysterious noises. Another time they found odd-shaped footprints. What was the secret the tree house was hiding?

'I've thought of a game," said my cousin Julian."What kind of a game?" I asked."A different kind of game," Julian said. "We've never played it before."It was a hot day and they had al¬ready seen the movie at the only theater in town. Yet the game that Julian devised to relieve the boredom--the game of Takers and Returners--was to affect the lives of all the children who took part in it. Julian was fifteen, and thirteen¬-year-old Ellen had always thought she might marry him someday--that is until Mother explained that first cousins could not marry. Julian still had a kind of fatal fascination, though. It made you want to follow his leadership. Otherwise, they would never have let the game get out of hand the way it did, for it was an un usual, frightening game, and one of which the adults would not have approved.In this skillfully written suspense story, Carol Beach York provides an atmosphere so full of tension and anxiety that it becomes almost un¬bearable, and the reader soon realizes that it is also a story of evil and that the game the children play is one no one can win.

Tatty is always in trouble! When a mysterious girl with blue hair shows up one rainy day, Tatty is the only one who believes she’s a princess. Who is she really? And why does she want Tatty to be her friend?About the authorCarol Beach York was the popular author of books for children ages 7 to 12. Good Charlotte is one of a series for younger children that takes place in The Good Day, an orphanage where 28 little girls live and play and have some whimsical (even magical) adventures