Books with author Doris Buchanan Smith

A friendless, overweight twelve-year-old with an overprotective mother begins to change the monotonous pattern of his life

Abused by his grandfather and neglected by his mother, a "tough" thirteen-year-old sees running away as the only solution to changing his life until a friend opens his eyes to an alternative.

Growing up is not quite so easy as she'd expected for a teenage girl in a small Georgia town.

Abused by his grandfather and neglected by his mother, a "tough" thirteen-year-old sees running away as the only solution to changing his life until a friend opens his eyes to an alternative.

Nealy Compton finds refuge from a difficult home life in a secret hiding spot under a neighbor's porch, but she must face the world after the neighbor's house burns down. By the author of Voyages, The First Hard Times.

A portrayal of a young boy's attempt to understand and accept his best friend's sudden death

John-too must face the fact that two of his favorite people are becoming strangers to him when his beloved grandmother develops Alzheimer's Disease and his best friend starts using racial epithets.

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A Taste of Blackberries Doris Buchanan Smith Harper Trophy Perma Bound

As she struggles to cope with a difficult mother and finding her place in the world, young Nealy Compton finds solace in the relative solitude and safety beneath her neighbor's porch

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Devoted to the memory of her father, who has been missing in action in Vietnam for more than ten years, Ancil has difficulty accepting her new stepfather. A companion volume to "Last Was Lloyd."