Gr 11 Up—After the sudden death of her mother, Alexandria Lee, a 16-year-old hippie, moves from the communal farm in California where she was raised to live with her flawlessly beautiful and suspiciously young-looking grandmother in Georgia...
PreS-Gr 1—A young girl trudging home with her mom on an urban sidewalk complains of fatigue and wishes their house had legs and could walk to them...
Gr 4—6—Hooper is a happy dog until Hurricane Katrina leaves him without a family and a home...
Gr 4—7—This debut novel, told in alternating chapters by 13-year-old twins, Vicky and Rhianna Davies, recounts the desperate measures three siblings take to keep from being split up by the foster care system...
Gr 8 Up—Carlos Duarte, 16, has tremendous confidence...
Gr 4—6—This title looks at various aspects of humor, including history, types, cultural and gender differences, the physiology of a laugh, types of laughs, artificial laughter, animals and humor, and, finally, how to develop jokes and share them...
Gr 2—4—Kenney explains the significance of these three sites as national monuments...
PreS-Gr 1—The Cycling Wangdoos, a racing team, train in the mountains of Tibet...
Gr 9 Up—Four different artists present the lives of four United States presidents...