Casanova, Mary

Chrissa Maxwell does not fit in at her new school and fears the other fourth-grade girls will not like her, but when their teasing turns into serious bullying, Chrissa must find the courage to stand up for herself and speak out against the bullies.

When Seattle fourth-grader McKenna Brooks' cast comes off she dives back into gymnastics training in hopes of making the competitive team, but after volunteering at a therapeutic horseback riding center, she considers broadening her interests.

When outlaw Dirk Yeller arrives in Cowtown looking for something to take away his cat-scratch fever, young Sam, whose pa says he is "a world-a-trouble and curious as a tomcat," knows just what this dangerous and jittery criminal needs to calm him down.

Jess McConnell travels to Belize and learns about the country, its archaeology, and even about herself.

Ten-year-old McKenna is ready to start fourth grade, but when she begins to fall behind in school, McKenna's teacher suggests she should get help from a tutor and with encouragement from Josie, a confident girl in a wheelchair, McKenna manages to regain confidence in her abilities.

Discusses the history, physical characteristics, care, and breeding of the golden retriever.

Still coping with her brother's death and her parents' subsequent divorce, thirteen-year-old Alex finds herself stranded on a small, deserted island in Minnesota with an injured eaglet.

After learning to understand the language of animals, Hai Li Bu the hunter sacrifices himself to save his village.

Twelve-year-old Seth, the son of a game warden, tries to save an orphaned moose calf from poachers.

Sent with her younger brother to God?y Island to live with her aunt and grandfather after Germans bomb Norway in 1940, ten-year-old Merit longs to join her parents in the Resistance and when her aunt, a teacher, is taken away two years later, she resents even more the Nazis' presence and her grandfather's refusal to oppose them. Includes historical facts and glossary.