Books with author Louise Moeri

"But, Dad, the radio keeps saying they aren't going to have a meltdown. Not yet.""Ephraim, things are out of control at Isla Conejo, or they wouldn't be doing all those emergency things they're doing. Firemen, police, doctors, talk about the National Guard, people coming out from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. And when a nuclear power plant is out of control, there are liable to be—almost certain to be— radiation lea

They’ve always relied upon their parents to take care of them. Now they are going to have to survive alone. The vicious attack on their wagon train killed almost everyone—except David and his younger sister, whom he calls Queen of Sheba. The two are stranded on the deserted trail, and have to live by their wits and whatever supplies they can scavenge. And although David is seriously hurt, he knows that frail Queen of Sheba is counting on him. He can only hope that their parents are somewhere up ahead—if he can find them. "Readers will discover new adventures on every page of Moeri’s towering story." —Publishers Weekly "A taut survival story, believable and human." —The Horn Book* "Vivd and memorable." —Booklist, starred review

If you were twelve years old and driving an old pickup down a mountain road at midnight---with your father (drunk and asleep beside you) how would you feel about your prospects for the future?Follow Quincy Rocklin as he negotiates family life with a pampered half-brother, a bullying step-brother, a step-mother whose loyalties are frozen in a strange mold and a father who is completely unattached and unaware, not to mention indifferent, that he is destroying his sons' world around them.Quincy builds glowing word lists for his teacher while searching for some way to rescue his little brother and himself as his father throws them away.

The vicious attack on their wagon train killed almost everyone - except David and his younger sister, whom he calls Queen of Sheba. The two are stranded on the deserted trail, and have to live by their wits and whatever supplies they can scavenge. And although David is seriusly hurt, he knows that frail Queen of Sheba is counting on him. He can only hope that their parents are somewhere up ahead - if he can find them.

A twelve-year-old boy learns about death and the conflicts that grip his Central American country when he's pressed into military service and trained as a soldier. "In constructing her story, Moeri faced a formidable challenge: how to look at a war that uses children for fodder and make it comprehensible, even reasonable, without glorifying its existence or rendering her story completely hopeless. She succeeds, portraying complicated emotions in terms children can understand." -- Booklist

Ol' Rosie, a cranky, old mare, has escaped the corral and has led ten of the Nolan's other horses into the stark mountains of eastern Oregon. It's not the first time, but for Wart's pa, this is a particularly desperate situation. On their ranch -- as on any ranch in 1907 -- horses are the key to a rancher's livelihood. So when Ol' Rosie and the other horses run off, somebody has to go catch them. But Wart's ma is having a baby. His pa needs to stay with her and to watch his little brother Danny. That leaves twelve-year-old Wart with the dangerous and critical charge of rounding up their runaway horses by himself.Struggling through the rugged wilderness and facing almost overwhelming peril, Wart must keep his wits about him. "I stood there for another minute trying to think. The wind had been knocked out of me but I was beginning to breathe better. I was miles from home. It was late afternoon -- soon to be dark. I was hurt. Gypsy was lame. Worst of all, I knew that the cougar was out there -- close to me. I was bleeding and he was hunting."With each successive threat, Wart becomes more determined to defy the frightening odds against him and prove his worth to his stern, critical pa. Wart is sent on a mission to save his family's ranch, and along the way he learns that despite his youth and insecurity, he possesses the knowledge and spirit to survive and eventually triumph.