Pat Schmatz: 3 books

Travis is missing his old home in the country, and hes missing his old hound, Rosco. Now theres just the cramped place he shares with his well-meaning but alcoholic grandpa, a new school, and the dreaded routine of passing when hes called on to read out loud. But thats before Travis meets Mr. McQueen,...

For eleven-year-old Tash, Cap’n Jackie isn’t just the elderly next-door neighbor — she’s family. When she disappears, only Tash holds the key that might bring her back. Tash didn’t want to go to camp, didn’t want to spend the summer with a bunch of strangers, didn’t want to be...

In a futuristic society run by an all-powerful Gov, a bender teen on the cusp of adulthood has choices to make that will change her life—and maybe the world. Fifteen-year-old bender Kivali has had a rough time in a gender-rigid culture. Abandoned as a baby and raised by Sheila, an ardent...