Gemma Open Door
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Post Office on the Tokaido
$10.00 Add to cartIn Japan, nothing is more familiar than the neighborhood post office, with its big red box in front and bright, welcoming windows. The post office has been Siya’s favorite place since she was a child.
- Series: Gemma Open Door
- Author: Gorsuch, Greta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 92
- Publish Date: April 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1936846764
- Language: English
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The Last Body Part
$10.00 Add to cartA woman discovers she has a rogue body part, one she’s never heard of. As sheprepares herself for surgery to remove the offense, she travels to London andfinds answers to her questions in unexpected p… [more below]
- Series: Gemma Open Door
- Author: Woolf, Sarajane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 85
- Publish Date: February 13 2017
- ISBN10: 1936846306
- Language: English
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Has Anyone Here Seen Larry?
$12.00 Add to cartA family drama between rival daughters that reveals a mother’s passion…
Larry is an 87-year-old widow. Old and frail, she remembers her youth as if it were yesterday and longs for her past vigor. Lar
- Series: Gemma Open Door
- Author: Purcell, Deirdre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: July 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1934848204
- Language: English
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The Peasants and the Mariners
$10.00 Add to cartStorytellers, said Walter Benjamin, are descended from one of two tribes: the mariners or the peasants. We revel in the stories of the sailors, with their lure of exotic places and the treasures a mar
- Series: Gemma Open Door
- Author: Bouldrey, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: November 27 2013
- ISBN10: 193684639X
- Language: English
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The Children’s Menu
$10.00 Add to cartCircletown is a strange place, and everyone knows it. People often get lost on well-traveled roads and familiar streets. Maps are useless.
Henry is a kid at Circletown Elementary School. Henry is a li
- Series: Gemma Open Door
- Author: Gorsuch, Greta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: January 17 2025
- ISBN10: 1956476393
- Language: English
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One Season in the Sun
$10.00 Add to cartThe history of baseball is filled with forgotten names: players who are good enough to reach the top of the sport but who, for any number of reasons, land at the edges of the game. Some spend a week o
- Series: Gemma Open Door
- Author: Schuster, Joe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: August 24 2012
- ISBN10: 1936846225
- Language: English
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Yankee Doodle
$10.00 Add to cartThe Charles River divides Boston and Cambridge, and the Red Line ties the cities together, traveling through classes and cultures along its route. When an unlikely group shares an afternoon train, the
- Series: Gemma Open Door
- Author: Welch, Loretta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 90
- Publish Date: November 30 2010
- ISBN10: 1934848530
- Language: English
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The Transcriber
$10.00 Add to cartLouis’s sister, Emily, is blind. She’s also in the marching band, gets great grades, sculpts in clay, and has the biggest bedroom in the house to accommodate her Braille machine. Everyone thinks Emily
- Series: Open Door (Gemma)
- Author: Witucki, Kristen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: February 07 2013
- ISBN10: 1936846373
- Language: English
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Time with Leo
$10.00 Add to cartA boy, just 15, through no effort of his own, travels back in time to the late 15th century, where he meets Leonardo da Vinci. Because the universe bends back on itself, time streams overlap, and he j
- Series: Gemma Open Door for Young People
- Author: Bliss, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: February 07 2013
- ISBN10: 1936846365
- Language: English
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No Stopping Her
$10.00 Add to cartGrowing up without a mother is hard. Worse is having a stepmother who controls Dad.
Brittany Myerson is so ready for high school to end. She knows that life is going to get a whole lot better when she- Series: Gemma Open Door
- Author: Elswick, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: November 01 2015
- ISBN10: 1936846519
- Language: English
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Training Days
$10.00 Add to cart“I rediscovered a bit of myself in Jun-li, and in May-lee Chai’s beautifully constructed and perfectly contained world. It’s the deftly and subtly rendered intricacies that mark this story, link it to
- Series: Gemma Open Door
- Author: Chai, May-Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 102
- Publish Date: December 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1936846624
- Language: English
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American Lion
$10.00 Add to cartSet in the rugged western United States, American Lion presents true stories of the majestic North American cougar told by people who experienced the mountain lion up close. From the Rock Creek Canyon
- Series: Gemma Open Door
- Author: Rush, R. Timothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: November 01 2015
- ISBN10: 1936846535
- Language: English
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Not Just for Christmas
$12.00 Add to cartDanny Murphy is going to meet his brother, Jimmy. They haven’t seen each other in more than twenty years, and Danny is nervous. On the way to the pub, Danny begins to remember the good times and the b
- Series: Gemma Open Door
- Author: Doyle, Roddy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 92
- Publish Date: September 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1934848026
- Language: English
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Forever and Ever
$10.00 Add to cartYoung Jaimie, a high school senior, holes himself up in an isolated cabin on a New Hampshire lake to mourn the tragic death of his girlfriend. He expects to be alone. So who is that swimmer he sees th
- Series: Gemma Open Door
- Author: Elliott, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 90
- Publish Date: October 15 2014
- ISBN10: 1936846497
- Language: English
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Jackie Robinson
$10.00 Add to cartThe year was 1947. A talented young minor-league baseball player was called up to the majors to join the Brooklyn Dodgers. But this was no ordinary man, nor any simple achievement. This was Jackie Rob
- Series: Gemma Open Door
- Author: Schuster, Joe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 82
- Publish Date: October 30 2018
- ISBN10: 1936846713
- Language: English
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The Bear Suit
$10.00 Add to cartRollo is tired of humans. Their cities are dirty, and their gizmos are dumb. He knows mankind is wrecking the planet. Rollo’s dream is to escape to the Sierra Nevada mountains where he can live alone
- Series: Gemma Open Door
- Author: Maretich, Marta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: March 02 2017
- ISBN10: 1936846551
- Language: English
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Basketball
$10.00 Add to cartBJ’s mother is short.Mom is an abstract painter who runs an arty cafe. BJ, however, takes after her missing father. Just twenty-one, she’s a college basketball player who lives and breathes the game.
- Series: Open Door (Gemma)
- Author: Bledsoe, Lucy Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: April 20 2012
- ISBN10: 1936846233
- Language: English
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Girls’ Guide to the Islands
$10.00 Add to cartThe American writer Suzanne Kamata had lived in Japan for more than half of her life, yet she had never explored the small nearby islands of the Inland Sea. The islands, first made famous by Donald Ri
- Series: Gemma Open Door
- Author: Kamata, Suzanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 108
- Publish Date: March 02 2017
- ISBN10: 1936846578
- Language: English
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Spin Cycles
$10.00 Add to cartBrilliant, homeless and nearly invisible, a young man wanders through Boston, looking for meaning and hope. Extreme mood swings and an unusual outlook on life make it impossible for him to thrive in m
- Series: Gemma Open Door
- Author: Coe, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 86
- Publish Date: October 15 2014
- ISBN10: 1936846470
- Language: English
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Cell Phone Lot
$13.33 Add to cartJessica Vasquez had worked hard to get where she was. Though some in her family had despaired of her future, she put herself through cosmetology school and landed her dream job: overseeing the beauty
- Series: Gemma Open Door
- Author: Gorsuch, Greta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 84
- Publish Date: September 15 2018
- ISBN10: 1936846691
- Language: English
