Books

This hauntingly beautiful story is written in dialogue--a sort of play for the reader's mind's eye. As the curtain rises on the quiet drama, Courtney, 16, and Elva, 88, lie in adjacent beds in a nursing home where the TV hasn't worked for years...

Fourteen bone-chilling tales are collected from such popular children's authors as Bruce Coville and Jane Yolen and bring readers to such sites as an amusement park for unwanted kids and a midnight playground for young ghosts.

Award-winning author Paula Fox succeeds again with Radiance Descending, a novel about a boy struggling to ignore his brother who has Down's syndrome. Paul can spin mental circles around Jacob, and he's tired of the way his parents focus all of their attention on his younger brother just because Jacob has a problem...

When Bambi Babcock's TV-producer father bankrupt, the Babcocks have to get out of Los Angeles ... fast. Dad heads for his hometown of Hickory Fork, which he remembers as a wholesome place for kids to grow up...

Unable to deal with her uncaring family, Cleo runs away to a deserted island in Canada where she hopes to prove herself. But when she finally decides to return home, her canoe has been destroyed, and she faces the ultimate challenge in surviving the Canadian winter...

To increase his chances of winning a college scholarship, a talented high school quarterback risks his health by taking anabolic steroids to gain weight.

That bright afternoon stretched before 15-year-old Webber, free and clear like the empty country road where Grandpa let Webb practice driving. Webb wakes up in the hospital, his leg shattered and his future as a runner in doubt...

Writing stories about the colorful characters in her Kentucky hometown, World War II adolescent Bobby Lee Pomeroy believes that, with the help of her ""10 Writing Lessons Course,"" she can earn money as a writer...