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In 1893 New York, thirteen-year-old Maks, a newsboy, teams up with Willa, a homeless girl, to clear his older sister, Emma, from charges that she stole from the brand new Waldorf Hotel, where she works. Includes historical notes.

A ninth-grader's suspension for singing "The Star-Spangled Banner" during homeroom becomes a national news story.

Poppy, a deer mouse, urges her family to move next to a field of corn big enough to feed them all forever, but Mr. Ocax, a terrifying owl, has other ideas.

An orphaned peasant boy in 14th-century England flees his village and meets a larger-than-life juggler who holds a dangerous secret.

A ninth-grader's suspension for singing "The Star-Spangled Banner" during homeroom becomes a national news story. Written in documentary style.

Becky and her brother use some ingenious clues to identify the person who stole five children's books from the town's library.

Poppy, accompanied by her troublesome son Junior, his skunk friend, and Uncle Ereth the porcupine, responds to a summons to return to her ancestral home, Gray House, to save the mice there from destruction by a bulldozer.