When he moves from Los Angeles to Providence, Rhode Island, Kenny discovers that his new house is haunted by the spirit of a black slave boy who asks Kenny to return with him to the early nineteenth century and prevent his murder by slave traders.
Contains six original one-act plays by Newbery Award-winning children's authors, including Sharon Creech, Susan Cooper, Avi, Patricia MacLachlan, Katherine Paterson, and Richard Peck.
Falsely accused of theft and murder, an orphaned peasant boy in fourteenth-century England flees his village and meets a larger-than-life juggler who holds a dangerous secret.
When their home next to a brook is destroyed by beavers, a large family of golden mice is aided by Poppy the deer mouse and her grumpy porcupine friend, who in the process forges a relationship with the son he had abandoned.
Becky is in big trouble. The Checkertown librarian has accused her of stealing a rare children's book! Now she's got to clear her name by tracking down the real culprit with the help of her twin brother, Toby. Together they investigate a string of bizarre crimes about town-including the disappearance of four more children's books. The twins soon find clues in the stories themselves that point the way to a secert treasure! But can they figure out the treasure map before the thief doea?.
When 13 year-old Charlotte Doyle boarded the Seahawk in June of 1832, she never dreamed that the crew would mutiny and that her life would be in danger. Charlotte soon finds herself in the middle of a treacherous plot in which she is accused of a horrible crime. Now she must give her own true account of what happened on that terrifying voyage. Can Charlotte convince the authorities of her innocence?.
The Book Without Words appears to be a volume of blank parchment pages. But for a green-eyed reader filled with great desire, it may reveal the forgotten magical arts of making gold and achieving immortality. For generations, its magic has been protected from those who would exploit it. But on a terrible day of death and destruction, the Book Without Words falls into the hands of a desperate boy. subject: fable, fiction, supernatural, alchemy, magic, fantasy, avarice, England, greed, talking animals, Medieval fiction, occult fiction.
When he moves from Los Angeles to Providence, Rhode Island, Kenny discovers that his new house is haunted by the spirit of a black slave boy who asks Kenny to return with him to the early nineteenth century and prevent his murder by slave traders.subjects: History, Ghosts, Indians of North America, United States, 18th Century.
Falsely accused of theft and murder, an orphaned peasant boy in fourteenth-century England flees his village and meets a larger-than-life juggler who holds a dangerous secret. subject: fiction, Newbery winner, identity, orphans, Middle Ages, Great Britain, history--Edward III, 1327-1377.
