Hoffman, Mary

Grace and her friends have all sorts of adventures during their summer vacation--going to the circus, taking an imaginary safari, making friends with an elderly neighbor, pretending to be astronauts, and calling the paramedics when her grandmother has an accident.

A child talks about her grandmother, who is definitely not like the grannies in storybooks.

Discusses the behavior patterns and habitats of various kinds of snakes.

Silvano and Chiara, teens sent to live in a friary and a nunnery in Renaissance Italy, are drawn to one another and dream of a future together, but when murders are committed in the friary, they must discover who is behind the crimes before they can realize their love.

An eighteen-year-old stonecutter who is caught in the middle of political conflict in Florence, Italy, in the early 1500s, must flee for his life in disguise because his has become the best-known face and figure in Florence.

When Ivan and his brother ask the Tsar of Russia to help them solve a dispute, the Tsar gives them a riddle and tells them that whoever solves the riddle wins. 'Ivan goes home to his daughter Katya, who helps him solve the riddle and win the fight.

Hassan, newly-arrived in the United States and feeling homesick, paints a picture at school that shows his old home in Somalia as well as the reason his family had to leave.

A collection of ten tales from around the world that have animals as their main characters.

Discusses the stories which people from the ancient world told to explain their understanding of what they could see in the sky.

Seventeen-year-old Matt, painfully dyslexic and insecure, discovers that he can travel between worlds after being transported to Talia, where he joins Luciano and other Stravaganti in trying to prevent the di Chimici family's breakthrough into our world.