The Newbery Award Series

Three stories about people whose lives are affected by sculptured objects.

"And the saga of Ramona continues. Now in the second grade, our delightfully pesky friend directs her attention to her father's smoking and unexpected unemployment, her full-time working mother, and a sister who has reached a "difficult" age. With the best of intentions, Ramona concocts hilarious, inventive, yet truly sensitive situations to help her family adjust. This story is a sequel to Ramona the Pest and Ramona the Brave.".

The tales of wishes made and then regretted begin with the arrival of a stranger, who says his name is Thaddeus Blinn, in the New England village of Coven Tree - where people are "no strangers to magic." The time is a turn-of-the-century past when folks still took their legends seriously. During the annual Church Social,Blinn sets up a tent and sells magical wishing cards - then leaves as mysteriously as he arrived. The use of the wishing cards produces three tales of magic...

A biography of Amos Fortune, born the son of an African chief, but captured at 15 and sold as a slave in Massachusetts, where he purchased his freedom when he was sixty years old and became a respected citizen.

Left alone to guard the family's wilderness home in eighteenth-century Maine, a boy is hard-pressed to survive until local Indians teach him their skills.