fiction

Prolonged drought has strained Dusty's ranching family to the breaking point, but she finds consolation with her wild and beautiful horse.

Twelve-year-old Allie, kid sister of a private eye and hungry for a real mystery of her own, suspects foul play in an alleged hit-and-run after opening the deceased's briefcase and finding five extremely valuable issues of the comic book "Gypsy Witch.".

A guide to Camp Green Lake Juvenile Correctional Facility, which is located in a dry lake bed in the middle of Texas, that features survival tips and new anecdotes about Stanley's fellow campers/prisoners.

More humorous episodes from the classroom on the thirtieth floor of Wayside School, where students learn to tango, face the cafeteria's dreaded Mushroom Surprise, and study a hobo during Show and Tell.

Follows the adventures of a dog who is part wolf as he eventually makes his peace with man in the wilderness of northern Canada. Includes illustrations, maps, photographs, and diagrams as well as explanations of history, geography, popular culture, social customs, and other aspects of life during the nineteenth century.

While going through the possessions of a deceased guest who owed them money, the mistress of the inn and her son find a treasure map that leads them to a pirate's fortune.

During his service in the Civil War a young Union soldier matures to manhood and finds peace of mind as he comes to grips with his conflicting emotions about war.

Kidnapped seventeen years before, a man's daughter by a former marriage appears at his new home in Pittsburgh and affects the entire family.

Philip, an adolescent white boy who is blinded in a torpedo attack at sea during World War II, acquires a new type of vision, courage, and love when he is stranded on a tiny Caribbean island with Timothy, a kind, elderly black man.

When a girl she had met at an inner-city church is murdered, fifteen-year-old Macey channels her grief into a school project that leads her to uncover prejudice she had not imagined in her grandparents and their wealthy Connecticut community.