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In the first chapter of this haunting novel, 14-year-old Susie Salmon looks down from heaven and describes the horrifying events of her murder. As time goes on, Susie continues her curious observations while her family struggles to cope with the pain of h.

Littlefoot and his plant-eating friends are coaxed into the forbidden "Mysterious Beyond" by Cera and find surprising adventures.

Set in Canada in 1860, Lyddie is the tale of a young woman who struggles to save her family and the farm she loves by taking a job at a cotton mill.

A film based on Roald Dahl's book, CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY, in which Charlie Bucket and several others win a tour through Willy Wonka's candy factory and learn some valuable lessons.

In India in the 1940s, thirteen-year-old Leela's happy, spoiled childhood ends when her husband since age nine, whom she barely knows, dies, leaving her a widow whose only hope of happiness could come from Mahatma Ghandi's social and political reforms.

Kwan moves from China to live with her family in San Francisco and develops a relationship with her half sister Olivia, confiding in Olivia about the ghosts who advise her about love and relationships.

A boy discovers a group of escaped circus monkeys and attempts to capture them for the reward money, in order to fulfill his dream of owning a pony.

In A.D. 70 Marcus Falco is on the trail of villain Barnabas who will stop at nothing to snatch power from the Emperor Vespasian.

When his mother's remarriage moves him from sunny California to snowy Minnesota, twelve-year-old Rob feels totally out of place until he discovers iceboating, which he hopes will be the means to prove himself to his highly competitive father.