Eight-year-old Alison is an invalid with an undisclosed, life-threatening malady. Her only friends, other than her too-good-to-be-true 13-year-old brother Christopher, are her dolls Nettie and Boodles, who talk only to her. After Alison nurses new do...
Gr 4-6-- After spotting smoke coming from the chimney of a vacant Shanty Town shack, Akers Johnson soon makes friends with the old, blind, black man known as Uncle Shamus, who recently moved there. Along with ten-year-old Marleena, another resident o...
Dog Bites Man is a witty, tongue-in-cheek saga detailing the House-That-Jack-Built downfall of Eldon Hoagland, an innocent Columbia University professor who has become New York City's good-government mayor. The hilarious spiral begins when Hoagland, ...
AD 63: The long arm of the Roman Empire stretches across the European continent and the gladiatorial games are awash in blood and glory. For Quintus Honorius Romanus, son of one of the richest men in Rome, everything is as it should be -- as long as ...
Continuing the adventures of Quintus Honorius Romanus (a.k.a. Taurus) -- legendary gladiator of ancient Rome -- this second book in the series picks up in AD 68, when the emperor is dead and the throne is up for grabs. Three contenders square off to ...