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Presents a parable in which two mice, Sniff and Scurry, and two tiny mouse-sized people, Hem and Haw, try to find a way to deal successfully with unexpected change in their maze.

Luther and Nora Krank decide to opt out of Christmas, choosing instead to set sail on a Caribbean cruise on December 25, but they learn there are consequences to pay for trying to ignore the holiday frenzy.

The 5th and last volume of The Dark is Rising sequence. To gain the crystal sword and vanquish the Dark, an urgent race to the Midsummer Tree must be won, in the Lost Land.

A circus known as Le Cirque des Rêves features two illusionists, Celia and Marco, who are unknowingly competing in a game to which they have been irrevocably bound by theirmercurial masters, and as the two fall deeply and passionately in love with each other, their masters intervene with dangerous consequences.

The Big Friendly Giant is one of Dahls most lovable characters. Whether galloping off with Sophie nestled next to his ear; speaking his delightful, jumbled, squib-fangled patois; or whizzpopping for the Queen, he leaves an indelible impression of bigheartedness.

Tobias and the other Animorphs discover that the Yeerks, a parasitic alien race bent on enslaving Earth, plan to test a device that could put an end to the Animorphs' fight against the Yeerks.

"India Allwood grew up wanting to be an actress. But while promoting a film about adoption, India does what you should never do--she tells a journalist the truth: it's a bad movie. Like so many movies about adoption, it only tells one story, a tragic one. But India's an adoptive mom herself and knows there's so much more to her family than tragedy. Soon she's at the center of a media storm. Her daughter Fig knows they need help--and who better to...

Stories explore the ways in which children are affected by war, from two Native American soldiers fighting in the Civil War, to an Afghan girl whose village is destroyed by the Soviets.

"A hostile relationship with her sister and a complicated past with her father's second wife have kept Robin estranged from her family for many years. But when her father's new family is attacked in their house, with her father, his wife, and young daughter in critical condition in the hospital, she returns home to await their fate and hopefully mend fences. It looks like a random robbery gone awry, but as Robin spends more time with her family members,...

A young boy relates his adventures during the year he spends living alone in the Catskill Mountains including his struggle for survival, his dependence on nature, his animal friends, and his ultimate realization that he needs human companionship.