The Library of Unruly Treasures

The Library of Unruly TreasuresThe Borrowers meets Matilida in this funny, winning story of a girl who finds herself an unlikely hero when she stumbles upon a big secret about little creatures. The latest book from the National Book Award winning author of the Penderwicks series. Gwen MacKinnon's parents are dreadful. Truly, deeply, almost impressively dreadful. So Gwen's not upset at all when she's foisted onto her never before seen Uncle Matthew for two weeks. Especially when it

Moving through her mother’s history in the deeply segregated South and through her own girlhood as a “child of miscegenation” in Mississippi

This gruesome battle is meant to send home a chilling message: Rebellion will always be punished

But when Jacob decides to give Briana the best gift imaginable—a kidney for her brother—she wonders just how she can resist this quietly sexy new doctor

six of them diagnosed with schizophrenia

and that planning is never as rewarding as doing

So when the town threatens to close the crumbling building

With flaming idealism and stirring slogans

#1 New York Times bestselling author) about fathers and sons

Twenty-four minutes ago: Neon leaves his shift at work at his dad’s bingo hall

Gripping and inventive

"Bad Girls Throughout History is at once a work of art

the woman he believes is the one