During World War II, when she was eleven years old, the author and her family were arrested in Poland by the Russians as political enemies and exiled to Siberia. She recounts here the trials of the following five years spent on the harsh Asian steppe.

For a rugged outdoor man and his family, life in northern Minnesota is a wild experience involving wolves, deer, and the sled dogs that make their way of life possible. Includes an account of the author's first Iditarod, a dogsled race across Alaska.

Bonnie and Sylvia face many chilly misadventures after Little did the girls dream, when Bonnie’s parents left them in the care of the terrible Miss Slighcarp, what the future would hold

Bearing six unusual gifts, young Prince Jen embarks on a perilous quest and emerges triumphantly into manhood.

Unhappy about his aby sister’s illness and the chaos of moving into a dilapidated old house, Michael retreats to the garage and finds a mysterious stranger who is something like a bird and something like an angel.

A ninth-grader’s suspension for singing 'The Star-Spangled Banner' during homeroom becomes a national news story

As the only passenger, and the only female, on a transatlantic voyage in 1832, thirteen-year-old Charlotte finds herself caught between a murderous captain and a mutinous crew. This is a Newbery Award book.

The Tuck family is confronted with an agonizing situation when they discover that a ten-year-old girl and a malicious stranger now share their secret about a spring whose water prevents one from ever growing any older.

When his best friend drowns while they are both swimming in a treacherous river that they had promised never to go near, Joel is devastated and terrified at having to tell both sets of parents the terrible consequences of their disobedience.

Bored and lonely after his family moves from Berlin to a place called "Out-With" in 1942, Bruno, the son of a Nazi officer, befriends a boy in striped pajamas who lives behind a wire fence.

A teen-age girl gains new insight into herself and her family when her mentally handicapped brother gets lost.

This story, told in 44 vignettes, is written in the first person. The whole story describes the thoughts, feelings of and memories of Esperanza, a daughter in an urban Latino family, living in the poor section of the city,

Recounts the tragedy that strikes the Meeker family during the Revolution when one son joins the rebel forces while the rest of the family tries to stay neutral in a Tory town.

A young student, who comes to love poetry through a personal understanding of what different famous poems mean to him, surprises himself by writing his own inspired poem.

Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out I search of the man he believes to be his father—the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids. This is a Newbery Award book and a recommended title for Black History Month.

The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African American family living in Flint Michigan, are drastically changed after they go visit Grandma in Alabama in the summer of 1963. This is a Newbery Award book and a recommended title for Black History Month.

Following the deaths of two classmates in a bomb explosion at his Alabama church, fourteen-year-old Stone organizes a children's march for civil rights in the autumn of 1963.

Morning Girl, who loves the day, and her younger brother Star Boy, who loves the night, take turns describing their life on an island in pre-Columbian America; in Morning Girl's last narrative, she witnesses the arrival of the first Europeans to her world.

A teenager casually suggests playing a cruel trick on the English teacher, but did he intend it to end with murder?

A shy, lonely six-year-old wanders into the Canadian prairie and spends a summer under the protection of a badger.

Northerners, Southerners, generals, couriers, dreaming boys, and worried sisters describe the glory, the horror, the thrill, and the disillusionment of the first battle of the Civil War.

A young boy relates his adventures during the year he spends living alone in the Catskill Mountains including his struggle for survival, his dependence on nature, his animal friends, and his ultimate realization that he needs human companionship.

In a future where the Population Police enforce the law limiting a family to only two children, Luke has lived all his twelve years in isolation and fear on his family's farm, until another "third" convinces him that the government is wrong.

The struggle of three brothers to stay together after their parent's death and their quest for identity among the conflicting values of their adolescent society.

After the destruction of their floatplane, sixteen-year-old Gabe and his Dene friend, Raymond, struggle to survive a winter in the wilderness of the Northwest Territories.

Captured and enslaved by the corsair stoat Badrang, young mouse warrior Martin vows to end the evil beast's plundering and killing.

When the peaceful life of ancient Redwall Abbey is shattered by the arrival of the evil rat Cluny and his villainous hordes, Matthias, a young mouse, determines to find the legendary sword of martin the Warrior which, he is convinced, will help Redwall’s inhabitants destroy the enemy.

Eight-grade football hero, Wallace Wallce, is sentenced to detention attending rehearsals of the school play where, in spite of himself, he becomes wrapped up in the production and begins to suggest changes that improve not only the play but his life as well.

Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives.

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.

After his anger erupts into violence, Cole, in order to avoid going to prison, agrees to participate in a sentencing alternative based on the native American Circle of Justice, ahe he is sent to a remote Alaskan island where an encounter with a huge Spirit Bear changes his life.

Marty finds a lost beagle in the hills behind his West Virginia home, and tries to hide it from his family and the dog's real owner, a mean-spirited man known to shoot deer out of season and to mistreat his dogs.

Records the courage and self-reliance of an Indian girl who lived alone for eighteen years on an isolated island off the California coast when her tribe emigrated and she was left behind.

Left alone after the deaths of her father and brother who take opposite sides in the War for Independence, and fleeing from the British who seek to arrest her, Sarah Bishop struggles to shape a new life for herself in the wilderness.

The life of a ten-year-old boy in rural Virginia expands when he becomes friends with a newcomer who subsequently meets an untimely death trying to reach their hideaway, Terabithia, during a storm.

Impoverished Vermont farm girl Lyddie Worthen is determined to gain her independence by becoming a factory worker in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 1840s.

Sent to live with relatives on their farm because of his unhappy home life, an eleven-year-old city boy meets his distant cousin and Harris is given an introduction to a whole new world.

After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the wilderness, learning to survive with only the aid if a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce.

A priceless handcrafted rifle, fired throughout the American Revolution, is passed down through the years until it fires on a fateful Christmas Eve of 1994.

Twelve-year-old Sarny's brutal life as a slave becomes even more dangerous when a newly arrived slave offers to teach her how to read.

Sequel to Nghtjohn. Continues the adventures of Sarny, the slave girl who Nightohn taught to read, through the aftermath of the Civil War during which time she taught other African-Americans and lived a full life until age ninety-four.

A boy recounts his annual summer trips to rural Illinois with his sister during the Great Depression to visit their larger-than-life grandmother.

Sequel to A Long Way From Chicago In 1937, during the Depression, 15-year-old Mary Alice, initially apprehensive about leaving Chicago to spend a year with her frearsome, larger-than-life grandmother in rural Illinois, gradually begins to better understand and admire her grandmother’s unusual qualities. This is a Newbery Medal Award book.

To a thirteen-year-old Vermont farm boy whose father slaughters pigs for a living, maturity comes early as he learns "doing what's got to be done," especially regarding his pet pig who cannot produce a litter.

At the beginning of eighth grade, learning disabled Max and his new friend Freak, whose birth defect has affected his body but not his brilliant mind, find that when they combine forces they make a powerful team.

After the death of the beloved aunt who has raised her, twelve-year-old Summer and her uncle Ob leave their West Virginia trailer in search of the strength to go on living.

As further evidence of his family’s bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend.

After the sudden death of their parents, the three Baudelaire children must depend on each other and their wits when it turns out that the distant relative who is appointed their guardian is determined to use any means necessary to get their fortune.

Born in the Caribbean islands, Kit finds life in the Connecticut colony of her relatives to be extremely bleak and lonely. When her only friendship is discovered, she finds herself accused of witchcraft.

After his parents die, Jeffrey Lionel Magee’s life becomes legendary, as he accomplishes athletic and other feats which awe his contemporaries.

Palmer comes of age, he must either accept the violence of being a wringer at his town’s annual Pigeon Day or find the courage to oppose it.

Prequel to: Roll of thunder, hear my cry. Paul-Edward, the son of a part-Indian, part-African slave mother and a White plantation owner father, finds himself caught between the two worlds of his parents as he pursues his dream of owning land in the aftermath of the Civil War. This book won the Coretta Scott King Medal Award.

An African-American family living in the South during the 1930s is faced with prejudice and discrimination which its children do not understand. This is a Newbery Award book.

Sequel to: Roll of thunder, hear my cry. Four black children growing up in rural Mississippi during the Depression experience racial antagonisms and hard times, but learn from their parents the pride and self-respect they need. This book won the Coretta Scott King Medal Award.

Sadistically teased by two white boys in 1940's rural Mississippi, a black youth severely injures one of the boys with a tire iron and enlists Cassie's help in trying to flee the state. This book won the Coretta Scott King Medal Award.

During the Depression, a rural African-American family deeply attached to the forest on their land tries to save it from being cut down by an unscrupulous white man.

Two thirteen-year-old boys share neighborhood adventures, complaints about their older sisters, family secrets, and even guilt that bind them together in a special friendship.

Twelve-year-old Toswiah finds her life changed when her family enters the witness protection program.

Bored with traditional palace life, a princess goes off to live with a group of dragons and soon becomes involved with fighting against some disreputable wizards who want to steal away the dragons’ kingdom.

15-year-old Loch and his younger sister join their father on a scientific expedition searching for enormous prehistoric creatures sighted in a Vermont lake but it soon becomes obvious that the expedition’s leaders aren’t interested in preserving gthe creatures.

Tales from Africa, Europe, the Near East, Asia and Polynesia, Meso and South America, North America, and Trickster Immigrants.

Contents: They came back – Pearlin Jean – Sweetheart’s Cove – The Demon Lover – Two Japanese Tales – “Grief” – The headless lover – Treacherous Barbara – The grand master’s crime – The curse of the three sisters – Two Spanish ladies – The lady in black – “My jewels!” – The Empire State Building ghost.

Hoo-ha's -- When she saw him, she screamed and ran: Something was wrong -- The wreck -- One Sunday morning -- Sounds -- A weird blue light -- Somebody fell from aloft -- The little black dog -- Clinkity-clink -- She was spittin' and yowlin' just like a cat: The bride -- Rings on her fingers -- The drum -- The window -- Wonderful sausage -- The cat's paw -- The voice -- When I wake up, everything will be all right: "Oh, Susannah!" -- The man in the middle -- Cat in a shopping bag -- The bed by the window -- The dead man's hand -- A ghost in the mirror -- The curse -- The last laugh: The church -- The bad news -- Cemetery soup -- The brown suit -- BA-ROOOM! -- Thumpity-thump.

Contents: Boo men -- When death arrives. The appointment -- The bus stop -- Faster and faster -- Just delicious -- hello, Kate! -- The black dog -- Footsteps -- Like cats' eyes ; On the edge. Bess -- Harold -- The dead hand -- Such things happen ; Running wild. The wold girl ; Five nightmares. The dream -- Sam's new pet -- Maybe you will remember -- The red spot -- No, thanks ; What is going on here? The trouble ; Whoooooooo? Strangers -- The hog -- Is something wrong -- It's him -- T-H-U-P-P-P-P-P-P-P! -- You may be the next.

A collection of scary urban legends and other modern-day horror tales preserved by oral tradition.