Priscilla Cummings
1) Red kayak
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Living near the water on Maryland's Eastern Shore, thirteen-year-old Brady and his best friends J.T. and Digger become entangled in a tragedy which tests their friendship and their ideas about right and wrong.
2) Saving Grace
Author
Publisher
Dutton's Children's Books
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Description
When Grace's family is evicted from their Washington, D.C., apartment just before Christmas 1932, and she and her younger brothers are sent to the Mission, Grace wonders what will become of her sick older brother, her pregnant mother, and her out-of-work father.
3) A face first
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Twelve-year-old Kelley decides to cut off contact with her friends and classmates after suffering third-degree burns to her face and body in a car accident near her home on Maryland's Kent Island.
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Description
High school freshman Kate has a lot on her mind, what with taking care of her heartbroken mother and looking after the family chicken farm in Maryland, but she promised her dying father to look after her older brother who is just back from juvenile detention--and this year that seems to involve paying off the bullies at school by doing their school work.