Catherine Ryan Hyde
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Seventeen-year-old Ethan Underwood is unprepared to search for his estranged father in the Blythe River National Wilderness. Yet when his father vanishes from their remote cabin and rangers abandon the rescue mission, it's up to Ethan to keep looking. Navigating an unforgiving landscape, Ethan searches himself for the ability to forgive his father"--
Author
Publisher
Pocket
Pub. Date
c1999.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Trevor McKinney began by doing something good for three people. But instead of paying him back, he asked them to "pay it forward" by doing a favor for three more people, who in turn would help three others, and so on, each act a link in a chain of human kindness. And no one - not his teacher, his mom, or anyone in his small California town - could ever have dreamed of how far Trevor's plan would go.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
From the author of PAY IT FORWARD and ELECTRIC GOD, a stunningly original and romantic story of a dead World War II soldier who reaches through time to touch the people he loved most. Michael Steeb is young and more than a bit lost, living a ramshackle life in California with few material possessions, little direction and no real goals, until Walter arrives. As the dead man's past becomes entwined with Michaels' own memories, this spiritual connection...
5) Electric god
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
Hayden Reese is a middle aged man unsuccessfully trying to bury his past. He is newly released from jail, living a marginal life in a remote California town. He has just buried his dog, Jenny, the thing he loved most in the world. Now he finds that he is losing the woman who forms the closest thing to a relationship he has known for years. It seems that God will never be done with him, with his destruction as a man. Hayden refuses to give up. Somewhere...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Raymond Jaffe feels like he doesn't belong. Not with his mother's new family. Not as a weekend guest with his father and his father's wife. Not at school, where he's an outcast. After his best friend moves away, Raymond has only two real connections: to the feral cat he's tamed and to a blind ninety-two-year-old woman in his building who's introduced herself with a curious question: Have you seen Luis Velez? Mildred Gutermann, a German Jew who narrowly...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Trevor McKinney, a twelve-year-old boy in a small California town, accepts his teacher's challenge to earn extra credit by coming up with a plan to change the world. His idea is simple: do a good deed for three people and instead of asking them to return the favor, ask them to 'pay it forward' to three others who need help"--
Author
Publisher
Catherine Ryan Hyde
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Former Broadway dancer and current agoraphobic Billy Shine has not set foot outside his apartment in almost a decade. He has glimpsed his neighbors--beautiful manicurist Rayleen, lonely old Ms. Hinman, bigoted and angry Mr. Lafferty, kind-hearted Felipe, and 9-year-old Grace and her former addict mother Eileen. But most of them have never seen Billy. Not until Grace begins to sit outside on the building's front stoop for hours every day, inches from...
10) Take me with you
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
August Shroeder, a burned-out teacher, has been sober since his 19-year-old son died. Every year he's spent the summer on the road, but making it to Yellowstone this year means everything. The plan had been to travel there with his son, but now August is making the trip with Phillip's ashes instead. An unexpected twist of fate puts August with two extra passengers on his journey, two half-orphans with nowhere else to go.
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"In this uplifting, poignant novel about friendship, trust, and facing your fears, Faith, a woman escaping her husband's abuse, befriends Sarah, a fourteen-year-old on the run from her father and reeling from her mother's sudden and suspicious death, as they follow after Midnight, the prized black mare that Sarah's father sold out from under her"--
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
New to a small town, Jackie and Paula envision a quiet life for their kids: a young adopted son and two teenage foster children, including the troubled Star. However, they quickly butt heads with their neighbor, Clementine, who disapproves of their lifestyle and is incensed when Star befriends her spirited horse, Comet. Haunted by past tragedy and unable to properly care for Comet, Clem nevertheless resents the bond Star soon shares with the horse....
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Out there is chaos, the collapse of society, and so much to be afraid of. All that matters is freedom. That's what Remy Blake has been taught by his survivalist father. Raised off the grid in the middle of nowhere, his own survival skills not yet honed, Remy is days shy of his eighth birthday when his father unexpectedly dies. As seasons pass, supplies run out, and fending for himself grows more desperate, Remy sets out on foot, unprepared for the...
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Brooke is a divorced single mom, financially strapped, living with her mother and holding tight to the one thing that matters most - her two-year-old daughter, Etta. Then, in a matter of seconds, Brooke's life is shattered when she's carjacked. Helpless and terrified, all Brooke can do is watch as Etta, still strapped in her seat, disappears into the Los Angeles night. Miles away, Etta is found by Molly, a homeless teen who is all too used to darkness....
15) When I Found You
Author
Publisher
Andrea Brown Literary Agency, Inc
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Nathan McCann's life is safe and comfortable but not much more. His wife has her own bedroom, usually with the door shut. His best friend is his curly-coated retriever, Sadie. But Flora won't even allow her in the house. One morning at dawn, on a routine duck hunt, his dog finds an abandoned newborn in a pile of leaves in the woods. It's a cold October morning, so Nathan assumes he has found the child's remains. Until the baby moves. This one moment
...16) Pay it forward
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
When a young man starts "paying it forward" for a social studies project, unusual things happen in this bittersweet and uplifting tale.