Baker Lawley: 4 books

A collection of six raucous short stories about growing up—starring a vagabond uncle hellbent on corrupting his nephew, and a jazz musician stuck in a saxophone factory, and a crew of regulars watching their town take away their bar, just to name a few. Full of hilarious moments, melancholy, great...

Lewis Champion is in love--total, hopeless, unrequited love--with Jubilee Marshfield. Which is complicated, because she's his best friend. And even though his other best friend Shoe, and his awesome grandfather, Paps, are both rooting for him, Lewis can't get up the courage to tell her how he feels....

Lewis Champion finally has it all. He's had the time of his life with his two best friends, on a wild road trip to spread his grandfather's ashes. Along the way he won the heart of his best friend, Jubilee Marshfield, too. And now, after an epic grounding from his parents, he and Jubilee are together...

Stoney Nix can play anything, from Beethoven to the Blues, on his old rattletrap piano. It’s just a gift, and a good one. Music is his ticket out of Pinewood, Alabama, his ironic, dying hometown, where they reenact the Civil War but cancel marching band because it’s too small. Then Sadie Green,...