Kelly Easton Books In Order

Trouble at Betts Pets

A number of changes are taking place in fifth grader Aaron’s life: business at the family pet shop is declining, forcing his parents to consider selling the store; luxury condominiums are going up on the land that houses a community garden, displacing the homeless woman who lives there; and Aaron gets to know his seemingly perfect classmate Sharon when she begins to tutor him in math.

The Life History of a Star

Kristin Folger feels like she’s on another planet. Her body keeps changing shape. Her mother wants her to dress like a girl. Her best friend’s dating a weirdo. Her grandmother seems to be getting younger. And there’s a ghost in the family’s attic whom no one wants to talk about.

In the era of Watergate, the Vietnam War, and David Bowie, fourteen year old Kristin navigates the external and internal changes that come at top speed. Set in California in the early 1970s, The Life History of a Star is Kristin’s sometimes comical, sometimes cynical, always thoughtful diary about what her life has been like since the ghost arrived. It takes a lot of time and an unforgettable family therapy session for Kristin to begin to learn who the ghost was and who he still is. And where on earth she fits in.

Caught up in the politics of her time and in the middle of a family who doesn’t always understand her, Kristin makes a memorable journey through the byways of adolescence all the way to the stars and back again.

Aftershock

Seventeen year old Adam and his parents are driving home to Rhode Island from a peace rally in Seattle when the accident happens. In a single, horrible moment, his parents are gone. And Adam is alone.

In a speechless state of shock, Adam begins walking across the country, toward home. But he can’t think in a straight line: The past and present merge in his thoughts, and the future’s a blank. As flashes of memory come to him some wonderful, some violent he begins to wonder if he has truly lost everything.

White Magic

Need to attract a boy? Cure a fear? Let go of the past?

Yvonne has the spell for you.

After Chrissie’s dad dies, her mom moves them to California to remarry. Chrissie’s lonely new life is transformed when the amazing Yvonne jumps out of her apartment door and pulls Chrissie inside to join Yvonne and Karen in their coven of ‘good witches.’ Yvonne is part gypsy, and somehow wiser than other kids her age. Karen is sweet, shy, and madly in love with the wrong boy. Alone, each girl is an outsider; but when the friends share their powers and cast spells to help each other, a kind of magic starts to happen.

Kelly Easton is the author of the young adult novels: The Life History of a Star, Walking on Air, Aftershock, and Hiroshima Dreams. The Life History of a Star was selected as the Golden Kite Honor Award, and as a Booksense 76 Top Ten Book for Teens. She lives and teaches in Rhode Island and Martha’s Vineyard with her husband and their children.

Hiroshima Dreams

Lin can t explain the knowledge she has of the future, of what people will say or what will happen. It’s a gift she shares with Obaasan, her grandmother, who has recently come from Japan to live with Lin s family. But seeing the future is more than knowing whether or not a boy will call. What is Lin to make of the visions she has of a day long ago, when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima?

Acclaimed author Kelly Easton s poignant coming of age novel about a girl with psychic abilities is rich in imagery and memorable characters.

To Be Mona

Sage Priestly is seventeen, and she longs to reinvent herself to strip away the fat, the past, the crazy mom, the unpaid bills. She longs to be her own version of the gorgeous and popular Mona Simms.

Sage starts dieting and exercising. She gets blond highlights and throws away all of her black clothes. Bit by bit she transforms herself. This is deeply troubling to her best friend, Vern, who is secretly in love with Sage just the way she is. But the boyfriend Sage wants the popular jock Roger suddenly notices her. And when they start dating, Sage thinks her life is turning around.

So why isn’t Sage happier? Yes, Roger is a little too controlling and pushy, but isn’t that what boys are like when you date them? What is it about the image Sage has created that just doesn’t fit?

Smart, honest, and tough, Sage is a teen with more going for her than she thinks, but she still has a lot to learn.

The Outlandish Adventures of Liberty Aimes

Liberty Aimes has spent all of her ten years captive in her parents’ crooked old house on Gooch Street. Her spry father, Mal Aimes, is a crook who sells insurance, while her overweight mother sits at home in front of the TV, demanding that Liberty cook nonstop, everything from fried clams and fried hot dogs to ice cream sundaes. Liberty’s only knowledge of the outside world comes from the secret stash of children’s books and fairy tales she discovered beneath the floorboards.
One day, Liberty works up the courage to enter her father’s forbidden baseme*nt laboratory. There she discovers a world of talking animals and magic potions. With the aid of one such potion, Liberty escapes into the world–and learns that she can talk to animals. She decides her destiny is to find the renowned Sullivan School, where she can live and get an education. Along the way, she meets a wacky cast of characters–some become true friends, but others want to kidnap her.