Books with author P.K. Miller

Constance (Connie) Pendleton and Connor Martin, both 13 years old, are friends and classmates in the upstate New York city of Billington. In the summer of 1954 they are vaguely aware that they might want to be something more than friends, for they are also vaguely aware of their budding sexuality and the distant allure of romance.Connie and Connor tell their story, which encompasses details of Americans' way of life in the 1950s, in the first person in alternating short chapters. They befriend a new kid, Sidney Asher, also 13 years old, an orphan who has come from Calais, Maine, to Billington to live with his uncle, Clark Meredith, and the uncle's new wife, Frances. Sidney is a shy, retiring boy of formal manners. Connie and Connor's friendship helps him adjust to a new way of life in a different region of the country. The three young persons' happy discovery of one another is shaken, as is their world, when Connie and Connor come across a criminal plot that could severely endanger the lives of Sidney and his newfound uncle and aunt. But Connie and Connor, like Nancy Drew joining hands with one of the Hardy Boys, become involved, at first reluctantly, then steadfastly. What ensues is a snooping around followed by a fast-paced chase, resulting in the two youngsters' separately saving each other's life. Ending, of course, happily-and with a last-minute twist.

Clem is a boy in strife. Blamed for the death of his mother, carrying a terrible secret from Grade 5 and in trouble with the police, he's now in a school for toxic teenagers. And that rev - head school counsellor wants him to write letters. Through his writing Clem goes deep into the trauma that has defined his life. Then he comes face to face with his mother's death. In a rush of bush bike racing, the death of one student and the consequent arrest of another, an unexpected first girlfriend, and some surprising friendships, Clem's story is the celebration of a boy who finds an unexpected future.

The Collaborative Bridges series offers the flexibility of mixing and matching lessons and activities to address a variety of elementary curriculum objectives and student learning styles. Each unit begins with a lesson in the library, extends with several bridge activities for use by either the librarian or teacher, and culminates with a lesson for the classroom. The arching series of lessons partners the media specialist and teacher for enhanced collaboration, or provides the librarian with a variety of curriculum-based lessons to use alone. The lessons are correlated to national standards, and all patterns, reproducibles, and answer keys are included. Six literature-based, cross-curricular units: Rocks and Soil; Natural Resources; Water Everywhere; Habitats and Biomes; Weather; and Night Sky.

Clem is a boy in strife. Blamed for the death of his mother, carrying a terrible secret from Grade 5 and in trouble with the police, he’s now in a school for toxic teenagers. And that rev-head school counselor wants him to write letters.Through his writing Clem goes deep into the trauma that has defined his life. Then he comes face to face with his mother’s death. In a rush of bush bike racing, the death of one student and the consequent arrest of another, an unexpected first girlfriend, and some surprising friendships, Clem's story is the celebration of a boy who finds an unexpected future.Tackles multiple issues affecting today’s kids: bullying; family dysfunction; grief; mental illness; friendship with a fast-paced plot. Adults who are looking for insight into how to approach instances of deep teenage trauma will also find something here, as well as a good story, well told.

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