If you pretend that the characters have neutral, possible names, the situation doesn't sound so arch; blackmail, after all, is a serious business. It all starts when Oggy Clay's tree house, topped with a propeller (for cooling) by mechanical ...
Left behind when his whole family is arrested by soldiers during the dark days following the Bolshevik Revolution, twelve-year-old Alex falls in with a gang of other desperate homeless children, but never loses his hope for a better life....
Desperate, driven, harassed to the breaking point, Slake decides to go underground -- into the sheltering depths of the New York City Subway where he ends up staying for one hundred and twenty-one days. This is the story about survival, and about a 1...
The Giant Hogstalk escaped from the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, England, and roamed the countryside, growing to immense size, looming up in unexpected places, frightening children and other people, too. So begins the story of a most peculiar plant...
The author's description. Bucking intolerance in a crucial year of his life, Hershy Marks wonders why God plunked him down in Pennsylvania coal country but didn't make him Polish. An essentially lighthearted boy, Hershy has a lot of questions: Why do...
Simms Sylvanus is nine years old and enormously wise. He knows more about active volcanoes than his father knows about business, and more about electromagnetic fields than anyone in his class. His ideas to improve things are amazing! Yet nobody -...