New Releases by Carol Lynch Williams

Eleven-year-old Leah ultimately comes to terms with her younger sister''s death. A warm, funny, family story that deals with overcoming grief and finding inner strength. To 11-year-old Leah Orton, Adeline Street was the best place on earth to live. But since her sister Kelly''s death, the old neighborhood only reminds her of better times. Recent additions to Adeline Street, like the new church and its stern preacher, seem like intrusions. So do many of Leah''s confusing new emotions, like her changed feelings for her best friend, Tom, and her sudden understanding of her friend Vickie''s frightening secret. Yet as Leah reaches out, she is surprised to find comfort and some good laughs in unexpected places.

During the Utah statehood celebrations in 1896, Esther, after being rejected for the lead role in her father''s play, finds herself helping the girl who is chosen for the lead to rise to the occasion.

Forced to leave their home in Nauvoo, Illinois, in 1846, Catherine and her parents join other Mormon families on a journey westward led by Brigham Young.

While living in Nauvoo, Illinois, in the mid-nineteenth century and enjoying the friendship of the Mormon prophet Joseph Smith, Anna struggles to make her family see the importance of her gift for drawing.

When Sarah was a baby, her mother died; now she thinks her father needs a new wife, and in their search, they discover both a wife and the Mormon Church.

When Laurel and her younger brother narrowly escape death during a massacre of new Mormon converts, they begin an adventurous journey farther west.

Eleven-year-old Leah has a summer of outrageous adventures in her small Florida community, some involving her free-thinking grandfather but all shared with her younger sister Kelly, until an unexpected loss changes their lives.