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Good-Bye Pink Pig
Carole S. Adler
Paperback (Avon Books, Dec. 1, 1986)Amanda would rather live in a fantasy world of her imagination than go to her new middle school, where the custodian is the grandmother she has never met
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The Cat That Was Left Behind
Carole S. Adler
Hardcover (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Sept. 1, 1981)Chad doesn't think his new foster family will be any better than the others, but after getting to know them during a summer at the Cape and after meeting a stray cat, he begins to change his mind.
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Fly free
C.S. Adler
language (, Jan. 29, 2016)"None of Shari's brothers experience the cruel words and physical abuse she gets from her mother even though she does her best to be a good girl. Her mother expects her to take care of her little brother. Well, Shari loves him enough not to mind that responsibility, but when he gets in trouble her mother blames her. Her only escape is the woods and the birds! As secrets in her life are revealed, Shari finds a friend, an older woman who is also a bird lover. Would Shari be better off living with her friend?"
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Ghost Brother
Carole S. Adler
Hardcover (Clarion Books, April 23, 1990)Twelve-year-old Wally's older brother, Jon-o, has been killed in an accident, but his spirit reappears when Wally least expects it.
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Help, Pink Pig
Carole S. Adler
Paperback (Avon Books, Feb. 1, 1991)Eleven-year-old Amanda returns to the magical "Little World" to get Pink Pig's help for her new friend Robbie, who finds new courage there, while Amanda learns to deal with the real world
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One Unhappy Horse
Carole S. Adler
Hardcover (Clarion Books, March 19, 2001)Things are difficult for twelve-year-old Jan and her mother after her father's death, and when it turns out that her beloved horse needs an operation, Jan reluctantly gets money from an elderly woman whom she has befriended.
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Ghost Brother
Carole S. Adler
Paperback (Avon Books, Sept. 1, 1992)Encouraged by the spirit of his dead brother, who was killed in an accident, twelve-year-old Wally competes in a neighborhood skateboarding contest, despite his mother's objections
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The No Place Cat
Carole S. Adler
Hardcover (Clarion Books, April 22, 2002)Running away from her new stepfamily who doesn't seem to care about her, Tess begins walking to her mother's house and gets a companion in the form of a gray-striped cat who follows her along the desert road, but things don't go as planned when she arrives at her mother's house, which forces Tess to confront some hard truths about herself and her family.
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Eddie's Blue-winged Dragon
Carole S. Adler
Paperback (Avon Books, Aug. 1, 1990)A sixth-grader with cerebral palsy becomes the owner of a brass dragon which helps him out in some of the battles he faces due to his handicap.
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That Horse Whiskey!
Carole S. Adler
Hardcover (Clarion Books, Oct. 1, 1994)Determined to have a horse of her own, Lainey takes a job at a ranch that has her working to teach Ryan, a city boy who has no interest in horses, about ranch life and to train Whiskey, a difficult renegade horse.
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Get Lost, Little Brother
Carole S. Adler
Hardcover (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, March 1, 1983)Todd, who has trouble getting along with his two older brothers, notices a tiny island in the river behind their house where he thinks he could be by himself
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Footsteps on the Stairs
C. S. Adler
eBook (Open Road Distribution, Feb. 2, 2016)Fun loving Dodie is at a creepy beach house to get to know her neat little stepbrother and her cool, perfect stepsister, Anne. Anne is thirteen, like Dodie, but they couldn’t be more different. When both girls hear footsteps on the stairs at night, they are thrown together to solve the mystery. Their investigation lands them in the middle of a jealous quarrel between two long dead sisters. How can Dodie and Anne pacify the ghosts?