juvenile fiction

Lars the polar bear teases his friend Hugo the hare for being afraid of everything, until the day they get lost in the snow.

Mr. and Mrs. Bobton-Trent could never imagine ever running out of money, but when they did, their genius son Hubert Horatio Bartle Bobton-Trent saved the day.

The characters in Freddy's latest novel, an evil fifteenth-century poacher and his ferrets, mysteriously come to life, endangering Freddy and his friends and drawing them to an English castle near where the poacher once lived.

Little Fox, mistaking his mother's meaning when she tells him to make a friend, tries to create one from sticks and an apple, and when that does not work, enlists the help of Rabbit and Squirrel--accomplishing his goal in an unexpected way.

Rachel, having chosen to be mute following the sudden death of a classmate, shares responsibility with the other sixth-graders who decide not to report that the substitute teacher failed to show up.

Pictures and text describe a day on the job for Firefighter Frank. Includes fire-prevention and safety tips.

Liz tells her zoologist father he must get rid of all the homeless animals he keeps at their house or she'll never win the sixth-grade class presidency, but when they're gone she misses them and learns there are more important things than winning.

After Eddie draws a picture of his apartment building neighbors, they all begin to get along with each other.

In late-twenty-first-century England, the Bell family, looking to replace their malfunctioning robot, buys Eager, who is programmed to learn through trial and error like humans and who, with the Bell children, comes to see that something is not right with the BDC4s, a sleek, alarmingly clever line of robots the Bells could not afford.

Dot and Jabber, mouse detectives, try to solve the mystery of the disappearing insects.