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 Roman Empire rules the Mediterranean and the gladiatorial games are awash in blood. For Quintus Honorius Romanus, the games are pure entertainment -- until Quintus loses his wealthy family, his social standing, and his name to an imposter....
The second book in the series moves the action from the gladiator arena to the battlefield as Quintus and his friends are forced to fight with the legionaries of Rome in a bloody civil war. Set during the historically significant Year of Three Empero...