Carol Gorman: 12 books

This dramatic and moving story set in the days of the Negro Leagues illustrates the true meanings of friendship, prejudice, and heroism Twelve-year-old Charlie Nebraska wants two things he can’t get: to make the local Wildcats Baseball team and to have life to return to the way it was before...

An International Reading Association Young Adult Choice: When a night in a graveyard with her friends turns fatal, Kelly knows it’s up to her to find the killer—before the killer finds her New to town, Kelly reluctantly agrees when her friends challenge her to spend the night in a graveyard...

**Can geeky Jerry Flack win the election for class president, running against the most popular boy around? ** For the first time in his life, Jerry Flack is OK with being a dork. He has fun new friends, he’s on the school science team, and he even has a girlfriend. Everything is going great—until...

**At his new school, Jerry Flack is determined to stop being a dork and start being a cool guy—but does this science nerd really have what it takes to be popular? ** Jerry Flack is starting middle school in a new town where no one knows him and he can be anybody he wants. Jerry has a plan:...

While preparing for his school’s Shakespeare fundraiser, dorky Jerry Flack goes head to head with the school bully Jerry Flack’s first order of business as the new sixth-grade class president? Raising money to help make Hawthorne Middle School the coolest, starting with an Elizabethan fundraising...

An International Reading Association Children’s Choice: When high school student Holly Baldwin is murdered, her friends decide to consult a Ouija board—with disastrous consequences When her classmates throw a party soon after the brutal murder of their friend Holly, Jessica can’t believe...

Lizard Flanagan is stunned when she is chosen as a model for the local fashion show—this tomboy in a dress has her work cut out for her When Lizard Flanagan finds out about a trip to Wrigley Field to see the Chicago Cubs play—for only fifty dollars—she is thrilled. It’s her big chance...

**After witnessing a murder, Julia is forced to keep quiet—until she receives a message from the dead boy and realizes she’s in even more danger than she suspected ** Julia reluctantly joins her cousin Nikki and her friends for a night of partying. Climbing into the hills, they spot Heath,...

In her first year of middle school, tomboy Lizard Flanagan feels left out—her friends are growing up,  but all Lizard wants is to stay the same Twelve-year-old Lizard Flanagan can’t believe it when her best friend, Mary Ann, wears a skirt on their first day of middle school. What happened...

When his uncle invents a time machine that can summon people from the past, T.J. has his hands full with a seventeenth-century pirate T.J. O’Brien witnesses a break-in behind the library. But when he sees the burglar—a real, live pirate—he realizes he can’t go to the police. They’d...

When the boy Amy is babysitting swears he witnessed a kidnapping, Amy isn’t sure whether she should believe his crazy story Thirteen-year-old Amy Whipple is forced to babysit the son of her dad’s most important client, and she is prepared for a boring weekend with a boring eight-year-old....

This book fills a critical gap in our scientific understanding of the grief response of parents who have lost a child to traumatic death and the psychotherapeutic strategies that best facilitate healing. It is based on the results of the largest study ever conducted of parents surviving a child's...