Tate Marshall is delighted when a stray dog turns up in the yard one day, but Sable, named for her dark, silky fur, causes trouble with the neighbors and has to go.
A terrible accident has transformed Billie Jo's life, scarring her inside and out. Her mother is gone. Her father can't talk about it. And the one thing that might make her feel better - playing the piano - is impossible with her wounded hands.
Fourteen-year-old Joseph Michtom's life takes a dramatic turn when, in 1903, his parents turn their Brooklyn apartment into a factory for making teddy bears. Plus, Joseph wonders whether he will ever see the glitter of Coney Island.
Presents an historical fiction written in poetic form that represents the views of various people in a small Vermont town in the early 1920s when the Ku Klux Klan tries to infiltrate their town.
Using sophisticated computer technology, a fifteen-year-old girl--who has been raised by dolphins--records her thoughts about her reintroduction to the human world.
A fictionalized journal relates the experiences of a young stowaway from 1768 to 1771 aboard the Endeavor which sailed around the world under Captain James Cook.
When Codie's favorite aunt is having a baby, Codie wonders if the baby and her aunt will be all right, if Codie's baby quilt will be done on time, and if her aunt will still have time for her?.
Thirteen-year-old Nyle learns about relationships and death when fifteen-year-old Ezra, who was exposed to radiation leaked from a nearby nuclear plant, comes to stay at her grandmother's Vermont farmhouse.
In a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression.
