"When Heidi, an orphan, goes to live with her grandfather in the Swiss Alps, no one can imagine the solitary old man caring for a child. But the two grow to love each other, and Heidi blossoms in her new home. Johanna Spyri's charming story-and spirited heroine-have won hearts for more than a century." -Provided by Publisher

The adventures of eleven-year-old Adam as he travels the open roads of thirteenth-century England searching for his missing father, a minstrel, and his stolen red spaniel, Nick.

New folks are coming to live in the Big House. and the animals of Rabbit Hill wonder if they will plant a garden and thus be good providers.

Orphaned Rose Campbell finds it difficult to fit in when she goes to live with her six aunts and seven mischievous boy cousins.

A compilation, selected from various sources and arranged chronologically, of the reminiscences of slaves and ex-slaves about their experiences from the leaving of Africa through the Civil War and into the early twentieth century.

A Newbery Medal Winner For over thirty-five years, Ellen Raskin's Newbery Medal-winning The Westing Game has been an enduring favorite. This highly inventive mystery involves sixteen people who are invited to the reading of Samuel W. Westing's will. They could become millionaires-it all depends on how they play the tricky and dangerous Westing game, a game involving blizzards, burglaries, and bombings! Ellen Raskin has created a remarkable cast of...

War has two faces--one, a stirring, glorious campaign to uphold a noble cause; the other, an absurd, bloody, terrifying chaos. When he enlists to fight in the Civil War, young Henry Fleming sees only the first side of war.

A teenage girl gains new insight into herself and her family when her mentally handicapped brother gets lost.

One moment Alice is wondering what life is like on the other side of the mirror, the next she finds herself through the looking-glass and in a topsy-turvey land where everything is 'contrariwise'. Alice meets a host of bizarre characters: Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the dotty White Knight and the bad-tempered Red Queen, none of whom are quite what they seem. But is Alice's adventure real, or is it all just a dream? --Publisher.