Orem Library

"Lydia is dead. But they don't know this yet. So begins the story of this exquisite debut novel, about a Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio. Lydia is the favorite child of Marilyn and James Lee; their middle daughter, a girl who inherited her mother's bright blue eyes and her father's jet-black hair. Her parents are determined that Lydia will fulfill the dreams they were unable to pursue-in Marilyn's case that her daughter become...

After his parents die, Jeffrey Lionell Magee's life becomes legendary, as he accomplishes athletic and other feats which awe his contemporaries.

Having lost her beloved son in a tragic car accident, Alice Peterson begins to experience encouraging visions of him, which are also witnessed by the late boy's troubled nine-year-old brother.

A true 20th-century classic from the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Sound and the Fury: the famed harrowing account of the Bundren family’s odyssey across the Mississippi countryside to bury Addie, their wife and mother.
As I Lay Dying is one of the most influential novels in American fiction in structure, style, and drama. Narrated in turn by each of the family members, including Addie herself as well as others,...

When his best friend drowns while they are both swimming in a treacherous river that they had promised never to go near, Joel is devastated and terrified at having to tell both sets of parents the terrible consequences of their disobedience.

The story of a little girl named Fern, who loved a pig named Wilbur and of Wilbur's dear friend Charlotte, a beautiful large grey spider who lived with Wilbur in the barn.

Eighteen-year-old Lia comes to terms with her best friend's death from anorexia as she struggles with the same disorder.

Resettled in the "Bomb City" with her mother and brother, Davey Wexler recovers from the shock of her father's death during a holdup of his 7-Eleven store in Atlantic City.

After Ashley and Kristi find and antique doll buried in old Miss Cooper's garden, they discover they can enter a ghostly turn-of-the-century world by going through a hole in the hedge.

When Lord Death comes to claim sixteen-year-old Keturah while she is lost in the King's Forest, she charms him with her story and is granted a twenty-four hour reprieve in which to seek her one true love.