Recounts the extraordinary friendship between Jerome Foxworthy, a top student, loving son, basketball star, and first Black to integrate his southern high school, and Bix, a white athlete facing problems in his life.
Boot, an orphan, dislikes some of the more physical aspects of hockey, but in protecting his younger sister from a bully, he learns that aggression can be appropriate at times.
a personal selection of writings about nature for young readers
Brooks, Bruce
1998
A compilation with commentary of essays, observations, excerpts, and poems about nature by authors as diverse as J.-H. Fabre, Rachel Carson, and Italo Calvino.
Afraid that his beloved grandfather will die after suffering a heart attack, a nine-year-old boy agrees to join ten-year-old Dooley in performing a mysterious ritual called soul switching.
