Also available in Overdrive and Hoopla. Angry and humiliated when his sharecropper father is jailed for stealing food for his family, a young black boy grows in courage and understanding by learning to read and with the help of the devoted dog Sounder.

Also available in Overdrive. A young orphan boy is ordered by his master to infiltrate Shakespeare's acting troupe in order to steal the script of "Hamlet," but he discovers instead the meaning of friendship and loyalty.

Also available in Overdrive and Hoopla. Alice falls down a rabbit hole and discovers a world of nonsensical and amusing characters.

An Indian boy who tends llamas in a hidden valley in Peru learns the traditions and secrets of his Inca ancestors.

Also available in Overdrive. Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids.

Summary: Garnet Linden finds a silver thimble, which marks the beginning of a happy summer on her father's mid-western farm.

Also available in Overdrive and Hoopla. Eleven-year-old Harriet keeps notes on her classmates and neighbors in a secret notebook, but when some of the students read the notebook, they seek revenge.

The author's fictionalized version, though all the events are true, of her childhood in China in the 1920's.

Also available in Overdrive and Hoopla. The escapades of four animal friends who live along a river in the English countryside--Toad, Mole, Rat, and Badger.

Also available in Hoopla. A black family of five moves into an enormous house once used as a hiding place for runaway slaves. Mysterious sounds and events as well as the discovery of secret passageways make the family believe they are in grave danger.

Also available in Overdrive. Having run away with her younger brother to live in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, twelve-year-old Claudia strives to keep things in order in their new home and to become a changed person and a heroine to herself.

A boy grows to manhood while attempting to subdue the evil he unleashed on the world as an apprentice to the Master Wizard.

Also available in Overdrive. In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis.

Ownership of a red pony teaches ten-year-old Jody about life and death.

Also available in Overdrive.Now that the four abandoned Tillerman children are settled in with their grandmother, Dicey finds that theIr new beginnings require love, trust, humor, and courage.

Retells the story of the Trojan War, from the quarrel for the golden apple, and the flight of Helen with Paris, to the destruction of Troy.