Bauer, Marion Dane

After discovering a tiny, delicate, china doll in an old trunk, Rose is amazed when the doll comes to life, claiming to be a princess, and starts ordering Rose about.

All Alison wants is a puppy for her birthday.

Alison dresses as a fierce and ugly pirate for Halloween, but she is disappointed and angry when everyone says she looks cute.

Young Alison, dreaming of having her own wings, tries to find a way to fly.

With kid-friendly illustrations, this book tells how Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. worked to end segregation and to attain civil rights.

Introduces young readers to how the Falls were made and the history that surrounds them.

Illustrations and simple text explain three types of clouds--stratus, cumulus, and cirrus.

After his mother leaves the family, Brian copes with his feelings of rejection by secretly taking care of a stray cat and her two newborn kittens.

Picked on at school by bullies, thirteen-year-old Michael confronts his fears during a trip to Colorado to see his father, who works as a whitewater rafting guide and whom Michael has not seen in eight years.

As a child makes a Mother's Day card, various animal mothers are shown taking care of their young.