Nine-year-old Rayanne's life turns upside down when her father leaves and she has to move off the Penobscot reservation and go to live with her grandmother.

Two hundred and sixty thousand women in America have breast cancer. Another one million have it, but don't know it yet. Every woman's story is unique. Alice Mead was a vibrant art teacher, mom and human rights activist. At 42 she began to drop things, walk slowly, and fall down. The odds were one in a million that it was an autoimmune reaction, caused by a tumor. The doctors ignored her symptoms for 8 years. The invasive lobular cancer didn't show up on X-Rays, CT scans, or MRI's. Not wanting to be a caretaker, her husband became emotionally abusive and left. Her mother died from Alzheimer's...

Alice Mead is the author of many notable books about children displaced by modern wars: Girl of Kosovo, Dawn and Dusk, plus award-winner, Junebug. Here she tells the story of Tutsi orphan trapped outside the border of Rwanda in 1993. With Neema's Little Ghost Book, Mead tells the story of a ten year old orphan, separated from her brothers in the Congo/Rwanda border region and her struggles to get home.

Native people arrived in Maine at the end of the last Ice Age, around 13,000 years ago. They came in small family groups and survived unimaginably cold winters and animals such as the giant beaver and cave bear. Fortunately, they had their great god, Gluskape, who slowly melted the ice and rid the woods of terrifying serpents. But he was also a liar and a big tease It was a time when people, animals, and stones were equal; when Gluskape could be as large as a mountain or as small as a mouse, when the Star People traveled to the treetops. Slowly, things started to change. The tribes squabbled...