In his first book for young adults, best-selling author Walter Mosley deftly weaves historical and speculative fiction into a powerful narrative about the nature of freedom....

Ebenezer Scrooge is a penny-pinching miser in the first degree....

Hattie Owen prefers to be steeped in the familiarity of her small-town life than to think about the vast world beyond her own...

Listeners will love this adorable poem about some personable bugs that decide to host a circus in a child's garden....

It's 1895, and after the suicide of her mother, 16-year-old Gemma Doyle is shipped off from the life she knows in India to Spence, a proper boarding school in England....

It's 1895, and after the suicide of her mother, 16-year-old Gemma Doyle is shipped off from the life she knows in India to Spence, a proper boarding school in England....

When both Eddie's parents catch a disease that makes them turn yellow and go a bit crinkly around the edges, it's agreed he should go and stay with relatives at their house, Awful End...

Sewing! NO ONE could hate it more than Dina Kirk....

Mattie Gokey has a word for everything. She collects words, stores them up as a way of fending off the hard truths of her life, the truths that she can't write down in stories.

Foraging in fields and on rubbish heaps, and sharing food with his friend Crane-man, used to be enough to fill Tree-ear's days. But now all Tree-ear wants to do is watch master potter Min at work...

Dink writes to his favorite author, mystery writer Wallis Wallace, and invites him to visit Green Lawn. To Dink's amazement...

In The Canary Caper, Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose get an urgent call from Mrs. Davis....

In The Empty Envelope, Dink keeps getting envelopes in the mail addressed to D. Duncan....

In The Goose's Gold, Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose go to Florida on vacation and hear that someone's found an old shipwreck....

In The Invisible Island, Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose pack up a basket and wade out to Squaw Island to eat and explore....