Six-year-old John, emotionally withdrawn and resistant to traditional teaching methods, experiences ridicule and punishment at his one-room schoolhouse, until an old retired teacher reaches out from her blindness to share with him the world of readin...
Left to survive on his own after the death of his foster father, a mischievous boy finds himself in a battle of wits against a fierce villain and soon regrets the years he refused to heed his father's wise advice....
A colorfully illustrated alphabet storybook with a difference tells of the Old Woman who builds a new house with all of the rooms in the order of the alphabet, starting with the Attic for storing apples and aprons....
When Ritchie's younger sister Rosie gets very sick after their mother suddenly goes away, Rosie begins to receive letters from a lonely troll, and these letters help Ritchie cope with his mother's absence, his father's seeming indifference, and the f...
"A complicated but compelling fantasy. Morals and principles with implications for today’s world as well as the imaginary one are as important as the magical elements.... A compact and cogent tale." --School Library Journal
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