While spending the summer working as an au pair girl for a couple in England, Maris discovers that the husband is a werewolf intent on blooding her and making her one too.
Having found an enormous sum of money and been threatened with punishment by their parents for not turning it in to the police, gawky eleven-year-old Julia and her bad-tempered friend Nathan flee London for Brighton and the open countryside.
Both Will and his cousin Becky have some adjusting to do when he comes to live with her family after his mother's death, especially when the ghost of a child coal miner begins his insistent haunting of Will.
In the 1930's eleven-year-old Julia goes to spend the summer with her playwright father and finds that he has abandoned her to the care of her pre-occupied stepmother who seems unaware of the strange voices that haunt Julia every night.
Zed, a Lebanese-British teenager, recalls the agonizing ordeal during which he, as a timid eight-year-old hostage of an Arab terrorist group, learned about courage.
Richard, a wealthy doctor, invites his estranged sister Angela and her family to join his for a week at a vacation home in the English countryside, which results in a symphony of long-held grudges, fading dreams, and rising hopes.
the revolutionary lives of Abraham Lincoln & Charles Darwin
Contosta, David R
2008
Examines the lives and careers of Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin, both born on February 12, 1809, and discusses the influence their accomplishments had on humanity and history.
Constance Langton inherits a mysterious Tudor estate, Wraxford Hall, where she is drawn into the home's chilling history and finds an almost supernatural link with the missing daughter of Wraxford Hall's former owner.