Thorndike Press large print The literacy bridge

A smallpox epidemic plagues the sixteenth-century people of Seven Clans and threatens the life of those in Mulberry Town, including a young Cherokee girl named Rain Dove, whose hopes for a husband and family are interrupted by the arrival of strangers to their community.

While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken.

Teenage Gerald, who has spent years protecting his fragile half-sister from their abusive father, faces the prospect of one final confrontation before the problem can be solved.

A fallen angel, tired of being unappreciated while doing his pointless, demeaning job, leaves Hell, enters the body of a seventeen-year-old boy, and tries to experience the full range of human feelings before being caught and punished, while the boy's family and friends puzzle over his changed behavior.

Zoey and friends may finally have proven themselves worthy of aid in their fight against Neferet after she reveals her true nature to the Vampyre High Council.

When her owner dies at the start of the Revolution, a greedy nephew keeps Isabel and her younger sister enslaved and sells them to Loyalists in New York, where she is offered the chance to spy for the Patriots.

Zoey Redbird, a fledgling vampyre, becomes confused about who to trust, with friends becoming enemies and enemies becoming friends at the House of Night prep school, and the need for caution becomes increasingly important when she finds herself juggling three boyfriends, and vampyres start turning up really dead.

Eleven-year-old Emily attempts to cope with the tragic loss of her older brother and her parents' decision to sell their home which they now feel holds too many sad memories.

In 1859, eleven-year-old Elijah Freeman, the first free-born child in Buxton, Canada, which is a haven for slaves fleeing the American South, uses his wits and skills to try to bring to justice the lying preacher who has stolen money that was to be used to buy a family's freedom.

Presents twelve short stories about the experiences of young children and teenagers in war, showing a variety of perspectives, and provides factual notes on each conflict dramatized.