Fleischman, Paul

A young girl watches as the activities across the street from her bus stop become a circus.

The Dunderheads--a gang of misfits with unique and unusual talents--come to the aid of one of their own when Spider is falsely arrested for stealing jewelry.

A collection of poems to be read aloud by four people, with color-coded text to indicate which lines are read by which readers.

Rob becomes obsessed with searching the airwaves for his long-gone father, a radio announcer.

Contain a juxtaposition of several different plays that parody the works of Tennessee Williams, Anton Chekhov, Samuel Beckett, Neil Simon, and others.

An account of the 1834 cross-continental journey of naturalist John Townsend and his many discoveries, including the warbler that bears his name.

As a young piano student plays Beethoven's Rondo in C at her recital, each member of the audience is stirred by memories.

A grandmother tells a story about a young girl who uses her wits and what is available to her to help her survive when she is lost in the snow with instructions for creating a number of string figures mentioned in the story.

A retelling of the story of the Trojan War illustrated with collages featuring newspaper clippings of modern events from World War I through the Persian Gulf war.

A novel in play form in which sixteen-year-old Courtney, paralyzed in an accident, learns about the power of the mind from an elderly blind woman who takes Courtney on an imaginary journey to Italy using a 1910 guidebook.