Fiction

Gr 1–3—Each volume discusses characteristics of a specific ecosystem, including plant and animal life...

PreS-Gr 2—Jeremiah Jellyfish, who is drifting along through his uneventful life, yearns for excitement...

Gr 3–6—The New Cut Gang, a group of young mischief-makers, rules the streets of late-19th-century London and solves mysteries...

Gr 7 Up—In 1938 Berlin, 10-year-old Ziska and her best friend run from classmates-turned-bullies who torment them for being Jewish, even though Ziska's family converted in the last century and she knows nothing of the Jewish religion or culture...

Gr 8–11—Springer tackles the complexities of a sibling relationship and a perverse stalker who nearly destroys a family...

Gr 8–10—When Honor returns home from her brother's military funeral, she finds a letter Finn had mailed weeks before being killed by a roadside bomb...

Gr 6–10—Whatever happened to the colonists of Roanoke, Virginia? Did they vanish? Were they murdered by hostile Indians? Who built the giant monoliths on Easter Island? Where did the people come from and how did they get there? These titles offer well-researched and well-written explanations of the history, the facts, and the suppositions about these mysterious places...

Gr 1–3—Best friends Bink and Gollie are complete opposites in terms of appearance; Bink is short and squat with an explosion of yellow hair and rumpled clothes, and Gollie is tall and slender with a smooth bob and a chic outfit...

Gr 4–6—Ever since the death of her beloved grandmother, 11-year-old Stella has battled to maintain a sense of stability, to "clutch hold" to the spinning Earth...