Stanley, Diane

In this version of Rapunzel, the heroine breaks the enchantment put on her by the ogress who keeps her prisoner with the aid of three acorns.

Sweetness, one of eight orphans living with a man who is an unconventional housekeeper, learns to read, and writes an important letter to improve their situation.

A biography of the Renaissance sculptor, painter, architect, and poet, well known for his work on the Sistine Chapel in Rome's St. Peter's Cathedral.

Bella's peasant life is changed when her real father, a knight who abandoned her when she was a baby, comes and reclaims her, moving her to his home where she lives with a resentful stepmother and two horrible stepsisters and learns about a plot to kill her friend, Prince Julian.

Overwhelmed by his friends' Conversation Club where each member speaks at the same time, Peter Fieldmouse forms a Listening Club.

A biography of the tsar who began the transformation of Russia into a modern state in the last seventeenth - early eighteenth centuries.

"With tensions rising between the kingdoms of Westria and Austlind, Molly and Tobias accompany King Alaric to Cortova, where he hopes to form an alliance with the powerful King Gonzalo--an alliance that would be sealed by Alaric's marriage to Gonzalo's daughter, the beautiful princess Elizabetta"--Provided by publisher.

King Alaric asks Molly, who has been having visions of one of her grandfather's loving cups, to find the goblet to help him gain the love of the beautiful Princess of Cortova, and as Molly and her friends Winifred and Tobias search for the loving cup, Molly discovers secrets of her family and the magic of the cup.

A little girl imagines all the things she could do if she were a bird.

A traditional American singing game about a farmer and what happens when he takes a wife.