Cynthia C DeFelice
1) Wild life
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2011
Description
When twelve-year-old Eric's parents are deployed to Iraq, he goes to live with grandparents he hardly knows in a small town in North Dakota, but his grandfather's hostility and the threat of losing the dog he has rescued are too much and Eric runs away.
2) Signal
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2009
Description
After moving with his emotionally distant father to the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York, twelve-year-old Owen faces a lonely summer until he meets an abused girl who may be a space alien.
7) Weasel
Author
Publisher
Avon
Pub. Date
c1990
Description
Alone in the frontier wilderness in the winter of 1839 while his father is recovering from an injury, eleven-year-old Nathan runs afoul of the renegade killer known as Weasel and makes a surprising discovery about the concept of revenge.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2001
Description
Hindered by a fight with her friend Dub and a series of mysterious fires, eleven-year-old Allie investigates the fire seventeen years earlier which claimed the lives of the husband and infant son of a school cafeteria worker, as well as the handsome young man whose ghost asks Allie for help.