Brooks, Bruce

When his teammates on the Breadhurst Newts baseball team continue their losing ways, Whiz uses an unusual printing press to create several star players in hopes of winning a game.

A series of events captures the life of a free-spirited girl as she grows from a savvy seven-year-old to a self-assured sixteen-year-old.

In his twenty-first century society, fourteen-year-old Sam is allowed to decide the fate of his family after his mother is released from an alcohol rehabilitation center.

Ten-year-old Zip struggles to deal with his best friend's defection to a rival hockey team, a move that will test their friendship and leave them face to face on opposite sides in a close game.

Rhyming text and illustrations with some cut-outs reveal that things are often more than they seem at first.

After his mother divorces his father and remarries, Asa's sharp intellect and capacity for forgiveness help him deal with the instabilities of his new world.

A sixteen-year-old cellist and musical prodigy travels cross-country with her father, a product of the 1960s, to meet her mother, who abandoned her as a baby.

Contains three stories about young people who are doing their best to handle the loss of a loved one.

Photographs of notable basketball players and text about the game are organized to represent the numbers from one to fifty.

Describes functional structures built by such animals as the beaver, termite, and tailorbird.