Books with title Alfie Far From Home

When Fresno is hit with an unexpected outbreak of deadly scarlet fever, Andi Carter is scared. Her town friends are getting sick and school is closed until it passes. Far from the danger, at least Andi has her horse Taffy and plenty of work on the Circle C ranch to distract her.But is she really safe? First one ranch hand, then two, and then her brother Mitch fall ill. Mother is convinced that the only way to protect Andi from this terrible disease is to send her far away to fussy Aunt Rebecca in San Francisco.The noisy city and Aunt Rebecca's bossy ways may be worse than scarlet fever. But then Andi has an idea that might help save her friends back home . . .

When Riley Regas moved from Boston to the small town of Carver, Kansas, she never expected the turn her life would take. She never thought she could be happy in Carver, especially after the betrayal she endured at the hands of someone she thought she loved. She was wrong. It’s been six months since everything changed. Six months since Jesse stepped in and saved her. Six months since she realized she’d been in love with Jesse all along. Six months of happiness and Riley can’t wait to take the next step in her life with Jesse at her side. But one night changes everything and the life she envisioned with Jesse is turned upside down. Jesse has always been there for Riley, and now it’s her turn to be there for him. Will the love they fought so hard to find be strong enough to see them through this or will it ultimately tear them apart?

Glin, a normal human boy, was born on a planet where genetically modified humans live as slaves. Arztlan, a beautiful and temperate world, is a carefully managed game park and religious pilgrimage destination for a predatory species of aliens, called the Hrast. The human slaves on Arztlan have been genetically modified for size and strength, to have claws and night vision, and for aggression. Glin was born without any of these qualities, so he’s a freak to them. He serves the Hrast, but he can’t hunt, so he’s not much use to them or to the human hunters. In their primitive society, freaks don’t live very long. To avoid a violent end, Glin leaves the hunting lodge where he was born and sets out to escape, and then to explore. Arztlan is beautiful, but dangerous. Glin faces challenges, both physical and mental, as he is learns to survive on his own. If he lives, will it all have been worth it? Or will always feel alone?

Jack Carter made a promise. It has come time to fulfill it, but the consequences of doing so could take everything he holds dear away from him. However, not doing so, would have a greater effect on those he has unwittingly put in the cross-hairs of an ancient Runner. Follow Jack on his extraordinary journey to bring an end to some unfinished business.

The year is 1809. Daisie Moon travels to a farm in Massachusetts to live with twelve-year-old Annie O and the Smith Family. What Daisie doesn’t know is that Annie O‘s father plans to send his daughter off to work at a far-away cotton mill. The family needs the money, so Annie O sets out to work with Daisie in her bag. Annie O works long hours at the mill. The Overseer, Mr. Roughnickel, is mean and the work hours are long. Annie O tries to make friends with the girls who work in the Spinning Room. Mostly they run off and ignore her. Her only friend, besides Daisie, is a dog she names Baby. When Annie O meets famous Dolley Madison, everything changes! Annie O becomes so popular that the girls start a fan club in Annie O’s name. At first, Daisie is lonely at the mill so she wanders the halls while Annie O is working. What she doesn’t know is that Fern, the girl from the forest, plans to steal her from Annie O. Soon Daisie gets in trouble over a lost ribbon and has to live with Priscilla Weedworth, the mill owner’s daughter, and her unfriendly dolls. Annie O would like to run away from the awful mill but there are so many complications. Certainly she would never leave without Daisie! This is the second book in the Daisie Moon Adventure series.

"There's an Ethiopian; there's an Ethiopian!" I heard them shouting. I looked behind me, but I couldn't see any Ethiopian. Children began crowding round me, and I still didn't realize that they meant me, I was the Ethiopian. Meskerem was born in a small town called Kazerin in the Golan Heights of Israel, to an Ethiopian mother and an American father. Soon after Operation Solomon, when several thousand Ethiopian immigrants were brought to Israel, Meskerem's parents decided to move to the center of the country, to the town of Herzelia, where Meskerem comes face-to-face with the ignorance and prejudices of her new classmates, who are meeting someone dark-skinned for the first time. Her experiences, coming on the brink of adolescence, force her to confront her mixed identity. With the help of her Ethiopian grandmother, who remained in Kazerin, Meskerem learns to come to terms with who she is and find strength in belonging to three different cultures.