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Roy Eberhardt is used to the new-kid drill. His family has lived all over, and Florida bullies are pretty much like bullies everywhere.

On a winter's night under a full moon, a father and daughter trek into the woods to see the Great Horned Owl.

His wife and children were starving, so the black sharecropper stole a ham to feed them.

Thirteen-year-old Dicey takes care of her three siblings over the course of a summer in New England and tries to find a new home for all of them after they are abandoned by their mother.

The second volume of a two-volume graphic novel adaptation of Neil Gaiman's The graveyard book, in which the orphan Bod, short for Nobody, is taken in by the inhabitants of a graveyard as a child of eighteen months and raised lovingly and carefully by the community of ghosts and otherworldly creatures.

In his continuing adventures, Twig, now sixteen years old, joins the crew of his father's sky pirate ship and embarks on a dangerous mission to collect the powerful stromphrax, a substance that purifies water and also prevents the city of Sanctaphrax from floating away.

Halli Sveinsson, a mischievous young man who does not fit in with his peers and siblings, plays a trick on Ragnor that goes too far, forcing him to embark on a hero's quest in which he will face highway robbers, monsters, an intriguing girl, and truths about his family and the legends he grew up with.

Hospitalized with the dreaded atom bomb disease, leukemia, a child in Hiroshima races against time to fold one thousand paper cranes to verify the legend that by doing so a sick person will become healthy.

A young boy and his Norwegian grandmother, who is an expert on witches, together foil a witches' plot to destroy the world's children by turning them into mice.

Charles Wallace, Meg Murry's six-year-old brother, finds himself in a struggle between life and death involving the dragons he saw in the vegetable garden.

Presents an introduction to plants, in simple text with illustrations, including information on their structure--seeds, stems, leaves--the different species of as carnivorous and parasitic plants, and concepts such as single cells, germination, and photosynthesis.

Froggy isn't looking forward to his check-up because he might get a shot but when it's over and he's pronounced a very healthy frog, Dr.

Bear hears something in the tree and tries to figure out who it could be, and his choices are narrowed as more and more of his friends show up.

Amy and Dan, members of the powerful Cahill family, try to uncover the thirty-nine clues which will reveal the secrets of their lineage and find out what really happened to their parents.

Duck, tired of farm work, holds an election to unseat Farmer Brown, and after winning follows his political ambition all the way to the White House where he discovers the job of president is a lot of hard work.