Conly, Jane Leslie

As he tries to come to terms with his mother's death, Vernon finds solace in his growing relationship with the neighborhood outcasts, an alcoholic and her retarded son.

When two brothers steal a rabbit from a back yard in the rich part of town, the incident brings about their collision with other children from a background very different from their own.

To help her deal with her separation from her family, worry about her mother's serious operation, and suspicions about a new friend's abusive father, twelve-year-old Dawn creates an imaginary world while spending the summer of 1958 with her great-aunt and uncle in rural North Carolina.

Timothy Frisby, a field mouse, teams up with the adventurous rat, Racso. Together they try to prevent the destruction of a secret community of rats that can read and write.

When Impy, a cockroach, learns that his colony's home is threatened with financial ruin, he sets out to save his home from destruction and preserve a cultural landmark in the process.

A sister and brother spend a largely unsupervised summer in a cabin near a river, where they befriend an elderly man with much to teach them and where they try to come to terms with their parents' failing marriage and make decisions about their own futures.

The further adventures of the intelligent young rat Racso and his friends Christopher and Isabella as they try to ensure the survival of their secret community in Thorn Valley after its accidental discovery by two human children.

While helping a stranger solve the murder of a neighbor, thirteen-year-old Charlie and her younger brother are endangered by what they learn about gangs and drugs in the neighborhood.

As he tries to come to terms with his mother's death, Vernon finds solace in his growing relationship with the neighborhood outcasts, an alcoholic and her retarded son.

The further adventures of the intelligent young rat Racso and his friends Christopher and Isabella as they try to ensure the survival of their secret community in Thorn Valley after its accidental discovery by two human children.