After her father, brother, and sister are killed in a plane crash, twelve-year-old Daralynn's life in tiny Digginsville, Missouri, proceeds as her mother turns angry and embittered, her grandmother becomes senile, and her flamboyant aunt continues to run the Summer Sunset Retirement Home for Distinguished Gentlemen, while being courted by the owner of the town's new crematorium.
A Friendship for Today by Patricia McKissack
In 1954, when desegregation comes to Kirkland, Missouri, ten-year-old Rosemary faces many changes and challenges at school and at home as her parents separate.
The Boneshaker by Kate Milford
When Jake Limberleg brings his traveling medicine show to a small Missouri town in 1913, thirteen-year-old Natalie senses that something is wrong and, after investigating, learns that her love of automata and other machines make her the only one who can set things right.
More Missouri Fiction --
The Actual & Truthful Adventures of Becky Thatcher by Jessica Lawson
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Crows & Cards: A Novel by Joseph Helgerson
Homesick by Kate Klise
I Tell a Lie Every So Often by Bruce Clements
Keeping Secrets by Joan Lowery Nixon
Little House on Rocky Ridge by Robert MacBride
The Man Who Loved Clowns by June Rae Wood
The Song of the Molimo by Jane Cutler
Tackling Tires by Joe Lawson
The Year We Sailed the Sun by Theresa Nelson
Check these books out on display at the Arnold Branch through September 15, 2017.
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