Quick view Dream Keeper and Other Poems by Langston Hughes Langston Hughes's only collection of poems for children. It includes some of Hughes's best-known, best-loved and most powerful works, poems filled with spiritual energy. View Details
Quick view Dolphin Song by Lauren St. John Martine is just getting used to her new life on the game reserve with her grandmother and the white giraffe, Jemmy, when she must go away. Her class is going on a trip?an ocean voyage to watch the sardine run, a spectacular natural phenomenon off the... View Details
Quick view Dancing on the Edge by Han Nolan A young girl from a dysfunctional family creates for herself an alternative world which nearly results in her death but which ultimately leads her to reality. Winner of the 1997 National Book Award. View Details
Quick view Boy Who Held Back the Sea by Thomas Locker Jan had never done anything more heroic than shout for the guard because he'd imagined he'd seen a sea serpent. But when Jan discovered water trickling through a desolate stretch of the dike that protected his low-lying village, he knew he had to act... View Details
Quick view Black Stallion and Satan by Walter Farley Satan has won the Triple Crown, yet Alec still misses the Black, who's living in Arabia with Sheikh Abu Ishak. Alec receives word that the sheikh has died and has left the Black to Alec. A race between the Black and Satan is inevitable, but unexpected... View Details
Quick view Balto and the Great Race by Elizabeth Cody Kimmel When dozens of children in a remote Alaska contract diphtheria, Balto the Siberian husky leads a dog-sled team hundreds of miles through a blinding snowstorm to find help. Based on a true story. B&W illustrations. View Details
Quick view Awake and Dreaming by Kit Pearson Theo's dream of belonging to a real family seems to come true when she is mysteriously "adopted" by the warm Kaldor clan. But as time passes, the magic fades--really fades. In fact, Theo herself is vanishing! View Details
Quick view African Acrostics: A Word in Edgeways by Avis Harley Inside every acrostic is a secret message, often lurking in the first letter of each line (read top to bottom). But look out! These acrostics not only follow their subjects to Africa, but they also take the form to a whole new level. Here you'll find... View Details
Quick view The Hidden Staircase by Carolyn Keene Teenage detective Nancy Drew uses her courage and powers of deduction to solve the mysterious happenings in an old stone mansion. View Details
Quick view The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn by Dorothy Hoobier While attempting to solve the mystery of a stolen jewel, Seikei, a merchant's son who longs to be a samurai, joins a group of kabuki actors in eighteenth-century Japan. View Details
Quick view The Fire-Eaters by David Almond Growing up in sleepy Keely Bay, Bobby Burns is exposed to all manner of wondrous things: stars reflecting off the icy sea, a friend that can heal injured fawns with her dreams, a man who can eat fire. But darkness seems to be approaching Bobby's life... View Details
Quick view Phoenix Rising by Karen Hesse Thirteen-year-old Nyle learns about relationships and death when fifteen-year-old Ezra, who was exposed to radiation leaked from a nearby nuclear plant, comes to stay at her grandmother's Vermont farmhouse. View Details