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Both Sides of Time (Romance)
15 year old Annie Loackwood living in 1995 is transported back in time to the year 1895 and falls in love with Strat. However, trouble ensures when Strat is promised to another and Annie must return to her own time-or will they beat the odds?...
Both Sides of Time (Science Fiction)
Anna Sophia Lockwood is a typical teenage girl who just got out of school for the summer. Her boyfriend Sean isn't the romantic type and has never even said, "I love you." to her. She goes to Stratton Point where Sean is to tell him that the party at the beach for the beginning of summer will start soon and she wanted him there. While he was working on a car, she walks into the old mansion and looks around. All of a sudden she feels a falling sensation...
Burning Up
Macey Clare is trying to figure out what happened in 1959 in a barn fire. Nobody wants to talk about the 1959 fire. What can there be to hide?...
Driver's Ed (Literature)
While on a night time prank, some teenagers steal a stop sign resulting in a traffic fatality. A story of romance, teen social stituations, friendship, fear, family responsibilities, and a search through guilt to do what is right. A story in which most teens will be able to identify themselves and their friends....

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Driver's Ed (Thriller/Action)
It was a peaceful town, kids playing outside and hardly any crime, until three kids decided to have a little fun not knowing they were committing a crime. Remy, Nikkie, and Morgan decided to go steal some street signs just for the fun of it and because they stole it, an innocent lady named Denise Thompson died in a car accident. Now there is a heavy burden on their back because it is making headline news and the husband of Denise is threatening to kill w...
Enter Three Witches
Lady Mary survives the reign of a usurper King and his mad wife and helps the rightful heir of Scotland regain his throne. Mary is the daughter of the Thane of Cawdor and she lives under the care of Lady Macbeth at Castle Inverness in Scotland while her father is away at war. Lady Macbeth controls all aspects of Mary's life, not allowing the girl to do anything but wander the castle, looking pretty and innocent. Mary spends her days praying for the well-...
Fatality
A young teenage girl is forced to relive a weekend from her past. Bad memories arise in the main character but, not the ones that everyone expects. ...
Flash Fire (Thriller/Action)
Diane is jealous of all the other LA residents who get all the action of bush fires, but one afternoon, when there is a fire accross the valley, a flame ball gets thrown directly over to her lot. Beau, another teen living on her quiet street in the middle of no where, is home alone with his little sister Elizabeth (who's own mother openly tells everyone her daughter is hopeless and overweight)when the fires rage close by. Who will survive? Will Beau be a...
Flash Fire (Literature)
When a fire that started in LA reaches Pinch Canyon, a rich neighborhood, nobody is expecting it. Parents are at work, so all the kids left home alone must choose whether to stay and fight for their house, or leave it to the fire. Torn between losing their home and risking their lives, they must find some way to survive this horrible, gleaming fire. ...
Flight #116 Is Down! (Thriller/Action)
Patrick, 17, finds it ironic that he needs to request hall passes to go to the library, while as an emergency medical technician he can deliver babies and save lives without such childish restrictions. Heidi longs to feel competent at something and close to someone. Daniel, 15, must escort his younger brother to a wedding he desperately hopes won't take place. Spoiled Darienne can only focus on the small, insignificant negatives of life. All of these...

Caroline B. Cooney list of books

Flight #116 Is Down! (Literature)
A plane crashes in a high school girls backyard when her parents are away on a trip. She and others have to find a way to save the survivors of the crash. ...
For All Time (Science Fiction)
Anna Sophia Lockwood (Annie) is a teenage girl at a regular school, although some of her last adventures through time would amaze you. Yes, Annie Lockwood is a century changer. In her last adventure she went back to the 19th century, one-hundred years before her time. During these adventures Annie fell in love with Strat who in turn loves her. But Time seperates them for Strat lives in the past and Annie in the future. Annie misses Strat so she calls...
For All Time (Romance)
Annie is testing Time but unfortunately Time has no mercy for her, and instead of sending her to 1899, Time sends her to ancient Egypt. Will Strat and Annie be together forever again?...
Goddess of Yesterday
Anaxandra is the only daughter of the chieftain of a small, unnamed island in the Aegean Sea. When she is just six years old, she is taken as a hostage by Nicander, king of Siphnos. She ends up being companion and friend to his crippled daughter Callisto. Six years later, Siphnos is raided by pirates, and Anaxandra is the only survivor. When Menelaus, king of Sparta, stops his fleet of ships at Siphnos to investigate, Anaxandra lies to save herself. She ...
Out of Time (Romance)
Annie Lockwood goes from 1998 to 1898 to see her beloved Strat again. This time, however, he is locked up in an asyulm and she must free him....
Out of Time (Science Fiction)
Annie Lockwood travels from her time (1995) to 1898 to find her lover Strat. Strat is in an asylum and Annie must save him. Annie and her family are in a difficult spot as her mother is in Tokyo and her dad is with another woman. When Annie travels through time to 1898 Strat's sister helps Annie get to the asylum and save him. But Strat is engaged to Harriet, Strat's old lover and they must get to her before she dies. Harriet is in a cure cottage and do...

Caroline B. Cooney novels

Prisoner of Time
Devonny travels from the Victorian era to modern times and meets up with Annie's brother, Todd. Todd is her only hope of getting out of a bad marriage-or can Devonny change the situation on her own?...
The Face on the Milk Carton (Thriller/Action)
This is a book about Janie who was kidnapped from her family when she was four. ...
The Face on the Milk Carton (Literature)
This book is centered around Janie Johnson. Janie is a typical teenager who is getting excited about finally getting her license to drive. Her worlde gets turned upside down, however when she is in the lunchroom one day and sees a familiar face on the back of a milk carton, her own! She is convinced that that is her on the carton and, with the help of her neighbor and new boyfriend Reeve, sets out to find the truth. Was she really born to Frank and Miran...
The Girl Who Invented Romance
Sixteen-year-old Kelly Williams is starting to wonder if she'll ever find true romance like her parents have or like her brother has. Her father is always bringing her mother presents, and her brother is madly in love with a girl who seems to love him back. But then everything starts to fall apart. Her brothers girlfriend leaves him, her father and mother start fighting over a high school reunion, and even her best friend is getting heartbroken-over som...
The Ransom of Mercy Carter
Mercy Carter is a young girl living in the English colony of Deerfield, Massachusetts. One dark, cold winter night, her life changes forever. Indians attack the settlement, kill many people, and take the rest captive. Mercy is seperated from what is left of her family and taken to live in an Indian village where she is adopted into the tribe. As the years go by, Mercy must struggle with her identity and what culture she belongs in, the one she was born i...
The Terrorist
Laura's brother is killed by a package bomb handed to him in a busy subway, while he is chasing after his friends. The police and FBI have no leads at all to who did it, so Laura makes it her responsibility to find the killer. The result of her curiosity is shocking....

Caroline B. Cooney information

Unforgettable
In one ill-thought moment, "witnessing a shocking crime," Hope loses her memory. She is not left bereft, however. Hope meets the very handsome Mitch McKenna, and believes that all will turn out right. Once again, the dream takes a turn for the worse. With the exception of Mitch, it at first seems like Hope will be all alone in the Big Apple, until an oddly frightening man claims to be her father, and takes her to meet an even more shocking "cousin." ...
Wanted!
While visiting her father (during one of her "custody weekends" with him) teenager Alice Robie's life is altered tremendously when she overhears an intruder rummaging throughout her father's apartment. Hiding from him, the youngster begins to realize that some misfortune has befallen her father. After the stranger departs, Alice goes to meet her father at a pre-arranged destination; en route there, she hears on the car radio that her father has been m...