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Greg's father thinks his son needs to experience new adventures and overcome some of his fears, so he takes him on a rafting trip. Greg dislikes the outing from the start, but nothing prepares him for the catastrophe that strikes. His father is bitten by a rattlesnake, and if he is to survive, Greg must get him to a doctor -- through perilous wild rapids. This gripping adventure will leave readers breathless, as Greg develops strengths he did not know he had in order to save his father's life.

When Nick learns some interesting information about how words are created, suddenly he's got the inspiration for his best plan ever...the frindle. Who says a pen has to be called a pen? Why not call it a frindle? Soon the school is in an uproar, and Nick has become a local hero. His teacher wants Nick to put an end to all this nonsense, but the funny thing is frindle doesn't belong to Nick anymore. The new word is spreading across the country, and there's nothing Nick can do to stop it.

When he goes to spend the summer with his great-aunt in the family's old house, eleven-year-old Drew is drawn eighty years into the past to trade places with his great-great-uncle who is dying of diphtheria.

Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives.

When he finds a lost beagle in the hills behind his West Virginia home, Marty tries to hide it from his family and the dog’s real owner, a mean-spirited man known to shoot deer out of season and to mistreat his dogs.

After his parents die, Jeffrey Lionel Magee's life becomes legendary, as he accomplishes athletic and other feats which awe his contemporaries.

When Ashley discovers a turn-of-the-century doll it is just the first of several puzzling events that lead her through the hedge and into a twilight past where she meets Louise, an ailing child whose beloved doll has mysteriously disappeared.

After a plane crash, Brian spends fifty-four days in the wilderness, learning to survive with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce.

Joel's best friend Tony drowns while they are swimming in the forbidden, treacherous Vermilion River. Joel is terrified at having to tell of his disobedience and overwhelmed by his feelings of guilt.

Daphne is the last person Jessica wants to work with on the Write-a-Book project, but her feelings change when she gets to know Daphne and stumbles on her terrible secret.

A book of poems by the famed children's poet, Shel Silverstein.

Orphaned Emily Luccock arrives at her aunt and uncle's once-happy San Francisco home, only to find unimaginable horrors.

Eleven-year-old Gilly has been stuck in more foster families than she can remember, and she's hated them all. So when she's sent to live with the Trotters--by far the strangest family yet--Gilly devises an elaborate scheme to get her real mother to come rescue her. Unfortunately, the plan doesn't work out quite as she hoped it would...

The last thing a fourteen-year-old Jay expects to find along an old Ozark river bottom is a tree full of monkeys. The monkeys had escaped from a traveling circus, and there was a handsome reward in store for anyone who could catch them.Jay sets out to catch them, but by the end of the "summer of the monkeys," he's learned a lot more than he ever bargained for--and not just about monkeys.

In this sequel to the classic The Cricket in Time Square, Harry Cat and Tucker Mouse try to find a permanent home for a young stray puppy they have befriended.

Ever since the day Mr. and Mrs. Bricker saved him from a life spent in a mailbox drop slot, Socks the cat has been the center of their world. But when a new baby arrives, suddenly the Brickers have less and less time for Socks. Socks feels left out--and to show it, he starts getting into all sorts of trouble.

Legend has it that a ghost cut the head off a wooden cupid on the stairway of the Stanley house. Has the ghost returned to strike again?

Having no one to help her with her problems, a widowed mouse visits the rats whose former imprisonment in a laboratory made them wise and long lived.

Louis, a mute Trumpeter swan, finds himself far from his wilderness home when he determines to communicate by learning to play a stolen trumpet.

After surviving a plane crash, a champion sled-dog evades his owner's attempts to retrieve him to travel 2000 miles from Washington to Alaska and return to the boy who once saved his life.

Claudia decides to run away with her brother, Jamie, and live at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The pair find a statue with an unknown sculptor that Claudia desperately wants to identify; all they know is that the former owner of the statue was Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. With her help, Claudia finds her way home.

Henry Reed has a sure-fire money-making plan in his new baby-sitting service--but the kids of Grover's Corner have plans of their own.

A reckless young mouse named Ralph makes friends with a boy in room 215 of the Mountain View Inn and discovers the joys of motorcycling.

Nothing's surprising in the North household, not even Sterling's new pet raccoon. Rascal is only a baby when Sterling brings him home, but soon the two are best friends, doing everything together--until the spring day when everything suddenly changes.

An inquisitive Labrador retriever, friendly bull terrier, and courageous Siamese cat set out through the Canadian wilderness to find their owner.

This novel of survival is based on the true story of a Nicoleño Indian girl living alone on an island off the coast of California.

An attack on a fort in the Tennessee wilderness makes young Chad Rabun realize that it is wrong to condemn one person for the misdeeds of another.

The life of the eighteenth-century African prince who, after being captured by slave traders, was brought to Massachusetts where he was a slave until he was able to buy his freedom at the age of sixty.