(Hardback)

In 1937, 13-year-old LaMarr's mother flies off with a stunt pilot. Sent to live with an aunt and uncle, LaMarr awaits her mother's return and is befriended by an older man, a former Rough Rider with Teddy Roosevelt, who helps her accept the probability that her mother is gone forever.

(Hardback)

Suspected of having caused her retarded aunt to walk away from their home in a small southern town in 1973, 13-year-old Memphis must deal with her past and her future. In this powerful story told in the first person and set throughout the course of three sweltering July days, Memphis must come to terms with her life, attitudes, and options.

(Hardback)

In a style richly evocative of small-town southern life in the 1940s, "Scorpio's Child" shows Kezi Matthews at her best. The characters that populate this poignant coming-of-age novel are as unusual and complicated as the situations that bind them.