New Releases by Carolyn Meyer

A study of the contemporary Yupik culture in an Alaskan village as seen through the eyes of a typical family.

A fourteen-year-old Jewish girl goes to live with her father and stepmother in a small town and soon finds herself the center of a civil rights battle when she objects to the high school band marching in the formation of a cross.

While preparing a book which highlights the people and traditions of the diverse culture found in Albuquerque, a group of seventh-graders discover interesting things about their city and families.

Provides original versions of folk songs from more than twenty-five cultures. As children sing or listen to the traditional and revised folk songs their knowledge of other cultures is expanded.

From a master of historical fiction Carolyn Meyer comes the moving tale, based on a true story, of a white woman who lived her life among the Comanche Indians, married the chief, and in 1861 was captured along with her daughter and returned against her will to a white settlement.

Intolerant of drugs and drug use, Lan finds his convictions tested when a friend from the Youth Symphony asks for help.

A runaway girl, who calls herself Sidney, keeps calling the hotline, sounding more desperate with each call. But are her frightening stories true? And even if they are, can the hotline help her?

Fourteen-year-old Win hopes to receive support and guidance in self-acceptance from his adult friend Elliott, despite another boy''s insistence that Elliott is homosexual.

When her convict father, on the run from the law, takes fifteen-year-old Andy into a remote wilderness area where they must fight to stay alive, he tries to explain to her what prison was like and they both make some shocking discoveries about each other.

The author relates her visit to Northern Ireland where she interviewed Protestants and Catholics and recorded their feelings growing up in a country torn apart by religious and political conflict.

When seventeen-year-old Denny, who is black, falls in love with his white stepsister and her father throws him out, he drives cross-country to find his own father, whom he barely knows.

The author recounts her visit to South Africa where she interviewed numerous young people, both black and white, to find out what growing up is like in a country torn apart by racial strife.

Explores the advanced civilization and unsolved mysteries of the Mayas, who reigned for six centuries and then disappeared.

Sixteen-year-old Texas, in order to keep the ranch left to her by her grandfather, sells some acreage to a movie company as a location for western films, and finds herself becoming involved with a young actor.

More interested in learning about Life than domestic arts, as her parents wish, fifteen-year-old Teddie learns perhaps a bit more about life than she''s bargained for during the summer of 1928.

Visiting the island of Saint Lucia with his parents, pudgy, insecure, thirteen-year-old Sam finds a needed friend in Eulalia, and comes to share her interests and positive attitude toward life.

The complicated lives of C.C.''s family and friends fall into new patterns the summer she is fifteen.

Follows the career of a group of rock and roll musicians trying to make it big.

Describes the experiences of a troubled teenager at the Vitam Center in Norwalk, Connecticut, a therapeutic community where teenagers with problems help each other get better.

Information on how masks have been used by various peoples over the centuries and directions for making similar masks out of easily available materials.

Describes the life of Alaskan Eskimos and their dilemma in trying to reconcile the white man''s ways with their ancient culture.

A cookbook which supplies recipes for and a history of a variety of candies.

Describes the way of life of an Amish family in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, including their work, beliefs, and customs.

Discusses the growth, cultivation, processing, and uses of coconuts. Includes thirty coconut recipes.

Retells nine familiar Bible stories accompanied by instructions for making relevant projects such as wall hangings, pillows, and stuffed toys.

Traces the history of spinning and weaving, patchwork and quilting, silversmithing, jewelry making, glassblowing, pottery, woodworking, and bookbinding and examines the lives of two or three artisans working in each craft.