Crescent Dragonwagon: 4 books

Elizabeth Stein, seventeen, is an uneasy survivor. Back from a year of madness, she finds that everyone she knows is falling apart and the questions she asks seem to have no answers. But the past--including the year it rained--must be untangled. Her father, a well-known Hollywood biographer,...

Has there ever been a more generous ingredient than the bean? Down-home, yet haute, soul-satisfyingly hearty, valued, versatile deeply delectable, healthful, and inexpensive to boot, there’s nothing a bean can’t do—and nothing that Crescent Dragonwagon can’t do with beans. From old friends...

The day Chrysta Perretti runs away from her crazy parents in Benton, Illinois, she feels she’s angry enough to stay on the road forever. But two years later, when the car she’s in suddenly breaks down in a small Arkansas town, Chrysta's road fever dies too, and something new is born: something tells...

My little one, lay down your head. It's time to doze, it's time for bed. You tell me, "I'm not sleepy now." "Just try," I say. You ask me, "How?" In this lyrical animal ABC book, a mother tries to tuck her child in for the night by telling...