fiction

A little girl, answering her mother's question about why she likes to be little, describes some of the special pleasures of being a child.

Mooch the cat tries to think of a gift to give his friend Earl the dog.

Presents the further adventures of the Quimby family as Ramona enters the third grade.

Joey, who is still taking medication to keep him from getting too wired, goes to spend the summer with the hard-drinking father he has never known and tries to help the baseball team he coaches win the championship.

Howard B. Wigglebottom has a great deal of difficulty listening, which gets him into a great deal of trouble.

On a night when the moon can grow no fatter, bats pack their moon-tan lotion and baskets of treats and fly off for some fun on the beach.

A fifth-grader starts a newspaper with an editorial that prompts her burnt-out classroom teacher to really begin teaching again, but he is later threatened with disciplinary action as a result.

The adventures and misadventures of Clifford the big red dog and his pals, Susie, Lenny, Basker, Flip, and Nero.

Roy, who is new to his small Florida community, becomes involved in another boy's attempt to save a colony of burrowing owls from a proposed construction site.

When a diphtheria epidemic hits her 1840 village, thirteen-year-old Jessie discovers it is actually a 1995 tourist site under unseen observation by heartless scientists, and it's up to Jessie to escape the village and save the lives of the dying children.