In the year 241, twelve-year-old Lina trades jobs on Assignment Day to be a Messenger to run to new places in her decaying but beloved city, perhaps even to glimpse Unknown Regions.

When the Grace children go to stay at their Great Aunt Lucinda's worn Victorian house, they discover a field guide to fairies and other creatures and begin to have some unusual experiences.

In alternating chapters, two young teenagers describe how their feelings about themselves, each other, and their families have changed over the years.

With the help of her wise old grandmother, twelve-year-old Rosie manages to work out some problems in her relationship with her best friend, Bailey, the boy next door.

When eleven-year-old Gregor and his two-year-old sister are pulled into a strange underground world, they trigger an epic battle involving men, bats, rats, cockroaches, and spiders while on a quest foretold by ancient prophecy.

Twelve-year-old Meggie learns that her father, who repairs and binds books for a living, can "read" fictional characters to life when one of those characters abducts them and tries to force him into service.

In the mid-1800s, Nory and her neighbor and friend, Sean, set out separately on a dangerous journey from famine-plagued Ireland, hoping to reach a better life in America.

10-year-old Charlie discovers he is able to look at photographs and hear conversations and even thoughts that happened when the photo was taken - a legacy of his ancestor, the Red King, whose descendants all have magical abilities. When Charlie goes to Bloor's Academy, a school for the 'endowed,' his life becomes full of intrigue and danger.

Unlucky and unloved, Molly Moon, living in a dreary orphanage in a small English town, discovers a hidden talent for hypnotism and hypnotizes her way to stardom in New York City.

Retells a part of the Odyssey in which King Odysseus fights the cyclops.

A twelve-year-old Polish American girl is boarded onto an orphan train in Chicago with fears about traveling to the West and a life of unpaid slavery.

An alphabet book that introduces Utah's history, culture, and landscape, from Arches National Park to Zion National Park.

From the initial Confederate attack on Fort Sumter to the Union's triumph at Appomattox, "Fields of Fury" depicts the war that shaped the nation with rare black-and-white photos taken by Civil War photographers, period oil paintings, battlefield maps, timelines, and an extensive glossary.

An award-winning journalist takes a look at extraordinary canines, presenting real stories from the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, along with historical and scientific facts and dramatic photos.

Author Gary Paulsen relates tales from his youth in a small town in northwestern Minnesota in the late 1940s and early 1950s, such as skiing behind a souped-up car and imitating daredevil Evel Knievel.

Enter the tiny world of ladybugs to see how they grow into bright flying beetles with vivid red coats and shiny black spots.

A beautifully-illustrated picture book which introduces Muhammad and the basic tenets of the Islamic faith.

Describes some of the newly discovered dinosaurs and what paleontologists have learned about these prehistoric creatures in recent years.

A renowned nature artist and author transports readers to a pond where winter melts into spring, bringing birds, turtles, and frogs back to their home.

A photographic journey into the ocean's depths, with acetate overlays which create a multi-dimensional effect.

A fascinating narrative, accompanied by spectacular photos, touching on the history of the mountain, successful climbs, earlier failed missions, and the effect that tourism has had on local people.

A young worm discovers, day by day, that there are some very good and some not so good things about being a worm in this great big world.

A beautifully-illustrated version of the old tale in which a poor shoemaker becomes successful with the help of two elves who finish his shoes during the night.

Jeremy Jacob joins Braid Beard and his pirate crew and finds out about pirate language, pirate manners, and other aspects of their life.

A little girl introduces her animal friends and describes the fun she has with them.

A king finds himself bitterly regretting the consequences of his wish that everything he touches would turn to gold.

With rhyming language and a vivid imagination, the author demonstrates that, for some kids, getting to school on time can be an adventure.

In rollicking words and pictures, the author re-creates one busy morning in the life of early 20th-century "knocker-up" Mary Smith, who's hired by her small English town to wake people early in the morning.

Retells the biblical story of the great flood and how Noah and his family faithfully responded to God's call to save life on earth.

In a wee little house, in a wee little hole, live a wee little mouse and a wee little mole. Little ones will love following Mouse and Mole through the moonlit woods in this rhyming read-aloud adventure.

Although Lolly loves to visit her Auntie Zep's house, she feels homesick when she actually gets there, and so Auntie Zep retrieves the Secret Remedy Book from an old trunk.

A poetic rendering of a canyon's creation, illustrated with Michael Collier's stunning photographs of the creeks, streams, waterfalls, rivers, grottos and canyons of the Colorado.

In 17 pairs of sensitive verse, poets Jane Yolen and Heidi Stemple -- real-life mother and daughter -- exchange their thoughts on a variety of adolescent issues great and small, such as homework, messy bedrooms, lengthy telephone calls, the death of a grandparent, and schoolgirl crushes.

A collection of funny poems in which you will meet an absolutely terrible baby-sitter, and a vain witch, be told who to pet and who not to, be introduced to several dinosaurs and told some mixed up tales and yes, find out all about that exploding gravy -- and that's just for starters.

A turtle named Jaws, a dinosaur canary, and a no-show tooth fairy are just some of the characters that show up in this rambunctious and irresistible collection of poems.

Short free-verse poems about familiar things set in motion - such as a pencil sharpener, ice cubes in a glass, and more.

In a series of poems, eleven-year-old Lonnie writes about his life, after the death of his parents, separated from his younger sister, living in a foster home, and finding his poetic voice at school.

A well-known British children's poet gives us this collection of poems for every mood--thoughtful, silly, and fantastical--accompanied by wonderful illustrations by Mary GrandPre (best known for the "Harry Potter" book covers).

A fantastically-illustrated version of the well-known poem about a wily spider who preys on the vanity and innocence of a little fly.

Caldecott Award winner Taback infuses this favorite children's rhyme with his distinctive creative flair and humor.

This fresh and funny collection of poems feature the wise musings of such notables as Walt Whitman, John Updike, Lucille Clifton, and Gelett Burgess in a selection of verses with rhythms, themes, and wordplay that will appeal to middle graders. Includes a section on how to memorize poetry.

Seventeen-year-old Bernadette Terrell has always felt she's known the right thing to do. Now she must contend with a situation that doesn't have black-and-white answers, where a community's hope, hard work, and pride are on the line. Is a team, and a town, implicated by one person's cheating?

A young woman journeys to a distant castle on the back of a great white bear who is the victim of a cruel enchantment.

In Aagaesia, a fifteen-year-old boy of unknown lineage called Eragon finds a mysterious stone that weaves his life into an intricate tapestry of destiny, magic, and power, peopled with dragons, elves, and monsters.

Despite the horrors of World War II, a French teenager pursues her dream of becoming an opera singer, which takes her to places where she gains information about what the Nazis are doing--information that the French Resistance needs.

When sixteen-year-old Blake goes to a mysterious, by-invitation-only carnival he somehow knows that it could save his comatose brother, but soon learns that much more is at stake if he fails to meet the challenge presented there by the beautiful Cassandra.

As English armies invade Scotland in 1306, eleven-year-old Princess Marjorie, daughter of the newly crowned Scottish king, Robert the Bruce, is captured by England's King Edward Longshanks and held in a cage on public display.

On her way to marry a prince she's never met, Princess Anidori is betrayed by her guards and her lady-in-waiting and must become a goose girl to survive until she can reveal her true identity and reclaim the crown that is rightfully hers.

In thirteenth-century China, after trying to save his widowed mother from a horrendous second marriage, twelve-year-old Haoyou has life-changing adventures when he takes to the sky as a circus kite rider and ends up meeting the great Mongol ruler Kublai Khan.

The night the soldiers burn his village, 12-year-old Santiago and his four-year-old sister, Angelina run away from the terror and set sail in a narrow sea kayak, headed for the United States.

Gentle Emmaline loves nothing more than books and flowers and her little brother Tommy. Sadly, when her father dies of cholera, the family is forced to move to a mill town, where Emmaline’s mother is dreadfully injured in a factory accident. To ease her pain she takes laudanum and is soon addicted, craving the drug so badly that she sells Tommy into servitude as a chimney sweep in London. Emmaline knows that a sweep’s life is short and awful. If Tommy is to survive, it is up to Emmaline to find him.

Seventeen-year-old Vince's life is constantly complicated by the fact that he is the son of a powerful Mafia boss, a relationship that threatens to destroy his romance with the daughter of an FBI agent.