juvenile fiction

Jimmy Jumpingbean and his teacher, Mr. Jugardor, demonstrate to the class why Jimmy's attention deficit disorder makes it hard for him to sit still.

When a young pioneer girl smuggles a cat aboard the wagon train taking her family from Missouri to Oregon, it turns out to be the best thing she could have done.

Richard "Beast" Best wishes he could climb up the rope in the school gym like Matthew and Emily, but just the sight of it makes him dizzy. He hopes his friends will not find out his terrible secret. But the substitute teacher does find out.

A modern-day fable, told in a richly illustrated children's book format. Tear Soup, a recipe for healing after loss, centers around an old and somewhat wise woman, Grandy. Grandy has just suffered a big loss in her life and so she is headed to the kitchen to make a special batch of Tear Soup. There she chooses the size pot that is right for her loss, and she puts on her apron because she knows it's going to be messy. Slowly the pot is filled with tears as the old woman steeps away. To season her soup Grandy adds memories like the good times and the bad times, the silly and the sad times. She does not want to forget even one precious memory of her loss. Includes advise on making tear soup and a list of websites relating to loss and grief issues.

Lexi likes baking with her cupcake club, but the club president is inviting new members, and Lexi is not so sure about being cast in the school's production of ROMEO AND JULIET when her secret crush is playing Romeo.

Ant isn't ready to hunker down for winter and braves the cold for one last surprise visit to her best friend, Honey Bee.

When Kylie starts fourth grade at a new school, she starts a cupcake club in an effort to meet friends.

Brian has always felt invisible at school, but when a new student, Justin, arrives, everything changes.

Fifth-grader Sadie and her friends in the cupcake club face their toughest challenge yet when they compete in the televised Battle of the Bakers.

In this variation of the :Gingerbread Man," the Gingerbread Bear runs through Woodlands National Park, until he encounters the clever ranger.