juvenile fiction

A British schoolboy finds adventure when he travels to a dangerous foreign country to return a small dog to its rightful owner.

Crispin, the little pig who has everything, gets the one thing that he doesn't have on Christmas morning when he receives a mysterious box.

Young Clara would rather play with her imaginary giant fish, Asha, than settle down to sleep.

Carmine loves the color red and stops to paint a picture on her way to visit her grandmother, while her dog Rufus meets a wolf and leads him directly to Granny's house.

Carl the weather dog, famous for his accurate prediction of bad weather, has to find a new sense of purpose when the climate in his mountain town of Grimsville changes from storms to sunshine.

Even as Christmas approaches and Gail longs to hear that her soldier father has not been killed in World War II, the sixth grader helps to restore her handicapped uncle's will to live.

When Boowie reads the diary that his grandmother sends him, he learns of her childhood in World War II England when American and British soldiers practiced for D-Day's invasion in the area of her home, and about her beloved cat, Adolphus Tip, and the cat's namesake.

Bess is feeling terribly lonely when out of the sky tumbles a bird named Bella, her tiny suitcases packed with all manner of wonderful things.

In Anchorage, Alaska, two lonely boys make a connection--a brown bear injured just after his mother sends him out on his own, and a human whose father is a new keeper at the Alaska Zoo and whose mother and sister are still in Minnesota.

Grace and her family share many adventures as they travel around Australia in a camper.