Brian, 14, bacomes the batboy for his hometown Major League baseball team, and leaves his family in order to win back his father. Along the way he meets and befriends an unlikely charictor.
As fourteen-year-old archaeologist Will and his friends plummet down a subterranean pore, they face deadly creatures and discover a strange fungal shelf, which not only reveals artifacts from ancient civilizations, but clues to a lost land at the end of the Earth.
After having inadvertently acquired the reputation of being a brave young knight, Digory, now also a prince living in the castle, goes in search of the missing King Widget and finds his life complicated even further when he is mistaken for a wizard.
O'Connor, Jane; illistrated by Robin Preiss Glasser
In her own inimitable style, the girl who loves to use fancy words provides tips on how to host the perfect tea party, describing how to behave, food and drinks to serve, games to play, and much more.
Etra, Jonathan and Stephanie Spinner ; illustrated by Steve Bjorkman.
When their bag of microwave popcorn explodes and a space alien emerges, Richard and Henry join him on a top secret interstellar mission to save the desserts of the universe.
In a specially adapted version, the story of Lucy Manette and her father trying to escape the danger of the mob during the French revolution , is made available to young readers with simple text and several illustrations. This story chronicles the French Revolution, the political turmoil and personal strife during France's darkest hour.
