It's a hot, hot summer, and Daisy and her animal friends are looking for a way to make it rain to fill the pond, and bring back the farmyard's happiness, in chapter-book format.
Stubborn, self-reliant, eleven-year-old Zoe, recently orphaned, moves to the country to live with her prickly half-uncle, a famous doctor and sculptor, and together they learn about trust and the strength of family.
In this wordless book with interactive flaps, a friendship develops between a girl named Flora and a graceful flamingo, as they learn to dance together.
Brought to Moscow in 1990s Russia by his mother's abusive boyfriend, five-year-old Mishka is forced by a gang of homeless children to lie and steal until he finds comfort and love with a pack of dogs. Includes historical note.
A young rogue monk, born a Dragon but raised an Eagle, makes his way through a maze of betrayal and corruption that reaches all the way to the Emperor's golden throne, only to realize the future may depend upon the five Ancestors.
