fiction

A perfectionist chef addicted to her work struggles to adjust when her sister passes away leaving her with a little girl to raise; and a new souz-chef threatens to take over her kitchen with his high-spirited and free-wheeling ways.

The adventures of a mischievous young boy and his friends growing up in a Mississippi River town in the nineteenth century.

Filled with resentment over the attention showered upon her twin sister, and awaiting the day she can leave her town behind, young Louise meets a wise old sea captain and begins learning how to let go of her anger.

During the Civil War, a twelve-year-old Bowery Boy from New York City joins the Union Army as a drummer, deserts during a battle in Virginia, and encounters a hostile old mountain woman.

Two stories from the Catskill Mountains: one featuring a man who sleeps for twenty years, waking to a much-changed world; and the other, a superstitious schoolmaster who encounters a headless horseman.

In thirteenth-century China, twelve-year-old Haoyou has life-changing adventures when he takes to the sky as a circus kite rider and meets the great Mongol ruler Kublai Khan.

Tree-ear, a thirteen-year-old orphan in medieval Korea, lives under a bridge in a potters' village, and longs to learn how to throw the delicate celadon ceramics himself.

Twelve-year-old Artemisis is a genious, who is also a criminal mastermind and a milionaire.

As features editor of her school newspaper, thirteen-year-old Jameela Mirza wants to impress her father by writing a spectacular story about the new student, but a misunderstanding and family illness complicate matters.