Kiowa County Public Library District

As a young girl, Rose Langtry feared her gruff, handsome rancher neighbor. Coming back to Colorado after five years, she's outraged to find Morgan LeMasters ready to hang her brother for rustling.

It's a big day for a little girl when she discovers her first loose tooth and makes a trip to the grocery store on the mainland.

In the Lowcountry of South Carolina, Diane English Stiftel, her brother Floyd, and her parents are throwing a barbecue to celebrate her son's engagement. On this gorgeous, magical night, the bride's father, Alejandro Cambria, a wealthy power broker and one of Chicago's celebrated elite, discovers the limits and possibilities of cell phone range. Meanwhile, mother of the bride, Susan Kennedy Cambria, who dabbles in public relations and believes herself...

For generations, children around the world have come of age with Louisa May Alcott's March girls: hardworking eldest sister Meg, headstrong, impulsive Jo, timid Beth, and precocious Amy. With their father away at war, and their loving mother Marmee working to support the family, the four sisters have to rely on one another for support as they endure the hardships of wartime and poverty. We witness the sisters growing up and figuring out what role...

In this tender and atmospheric tale, the author leads the reader into the wild heart of Wyoming, but also into the heart of every boy who yearns to be free.

Seven-year-old Juan, abandoned by his parents, lives with his grandmother in Guatemala. Because his family is so poor, his grandmother puts him to work. But when his dream of going to school comes true, Juan turns out to be a brilliant student who makes his grandmother proud.

Eleven-year-old Tucker likes his life with his divorced father, until the nine year old sister he has not seen in years moves back in with them and claims that their mother wants them to become one family again.

Fourteen-year-old Jake recalls how he has spent the last four years of his life watching his grandfather descend slowly but surely into the horrors of Alzheimer's disease.

When Maggie MacAuley returns to the small coal town of her childhood, she has no intention of staying. Her life is in Chicago now. There's nothing to keep her in Skingle Creek ... nothing but the discovery that a man who has lived most of his life for the children of Skingle Creek is no longer the hero of Maggie's childhood but seems destined to become the love of her life. In Maggie's quest for independence, she finds her greatest strength in sacrifice...

Different people, of all colors, shapes and sizes. Together we make a human rainbow, because we are all from the same family.