fiction

A boy's opportunity to visit a remote Scottish island, romanticized--he discovers the hard way--by his grandfather, helps him to mend his relationship with his "failure" father and look to the future.

Four diverse seventh and eighth graders at southern California's San Paulo Junior High tell, from their unique perspectives, of a tumultuous year of changing friendships and romantic interests as they are learning to be themselves.

Selected stories from Kipling's two "Jungle Books" chronicle the adventures of Mowgli, the boy reared by a pack of wolves in an Indian jungle. Also includes "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi.".

A California mansion is shrouded in mystery, its residents haunted by secret anguish. Flash back to 1929 Hollywood during a tumultuous time that shatters the lives of hard-drinking Pauline Sloane, silent-screen heroine, John Doyle, a young and angry cameraman, fired from his job and newly employed as Pauline's chauffeur, and Julia Nons, the chef, Marta Escobar, the housekeeper, and Robbie Morgan, Pauline's agent.