WILLIAM HAS AN AMAZING SECRET. William has just received the best present of his life. It's an old, real-looking wooden model of a castle, with a drawbridge, moat, and a finger-high knight to guard the gates. It's the mysterious castle his housekeep...
Lydia Franklin, daughter of a prosperous New York banker, grows up in a house filled with shadows and secrets. By the time she marries George Webster and moves to Connecticut, she is a dutiful wife obsessed with forgetting her past controlling her da...
As William turns twelve, he wonders if Jason is still his best friend. In the past year Jason has grown a foot taller while William is still a shrimp. When Jason challenges William to "jump the trains," William is terrified. How else can he prove him...
Michael's parents live seven states apart, and it is extremely difficult for him to be with only one parent at a time, so when his father comes for a visit, he is able to spend a lot of time with him and learn things about him that he had never known...
Maggie Hammond is drawn ever deeper into the odd world of a small New England island's winter community as she is attracted to a local naturalist, a body washes up on her beach, and the erosive impact of secrecy threatens to divide neighbors. Reprint...
"He's a porker with passion,
a dancing fool, a pig with rhythm-
this breaks every rule,"
said the normally reticent mule.
Now in paperback, Dumpy La Rue, a story of a pig who knew what he wanted to do.
Elizabeth Winthrop's ro...
"I'm going to spend the night at Rosa's house," said Daisy. But nobody heard her.
Being a middle child isn't easy
Nobody ever listens to Daisy. Her father was chopping carrots. Her mother was talking on the phone. Her big sister was cha...
Will these tap-dancing country rats make it big in the city?
Armed with a boom box, costumes, and city maps, five tap-dancing country rats set off to seek their fame in Rat Hollow―a rat community that pulses with a life all its own beneath th...
A perfect book for any holiday with a parade Harvey was excited when the mayor appointed him parade chairman. He loved parades. Fred did not.
Fred doesn't want to be in the parade--not in the beginning, not in the middle,and not in the end. Not ...
"Dream your dreams, my child, and knit them into the wool."
A long time ago a girl named Claire learned to knit by her mother's side. As the mother knit mittens, scarves and all sorts of clothing for the wealthy people of the town, Claire set ...
Every night a monster comes into Maggie's room. The monster crashes into the furniture with her big hairy feet, knocks books off the shelf, and sits in the chair and grumbles to herself. Maggie doesn't know what to do until her mother suggests that m...
1910. Pownal, Vermont. At 12, Grace and her best friend Arthur must leave school and go to work as a "doffers" on their mothers' looms in the mill. Grace's mother is the best worker, fast and powerful, and Grace desperately wants to help her. But she...
Maia and her best friend, who happens to be a monster, are both becoming big sisters. This is NOT good news! When Mom tells Maia their new baby will be her best friend, Maia is skeptical. Then Maia's baby and Monster's baby are born. Though they gurg...
Lucy and Henry are brother and sister. They may be twins, but that doesn’t mean they do everything the same way. From time on the swings to crawling through tunnels, a day at the park is double the fun when they’re together. Delightful illustrati...