Book cover for Lolo Weaver Swims Upstream by Polly Farquhar. Cover image is 2 children in a yellow, one-person canoe with a dog. The water is weedy and has litter.


"Not since Ramona Quimby has a character marched right out of a book with so much bravado, humor, and heart."—Barbara O'Connor, New York Times bestselling author of Wish 


A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection


Book cover for Itch by Polly Farquhar. Cover image is background of a dark farm skyline. Tree in foregroung with a red bike hanging in the branches.



A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection


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