This book tells of four sisters: Meg the beauty, Jo the rebel, Beth the peacekeeper, and Amy the dilettante. While Meg is eager to start a family of her own, Beth suffers illness, Amy is determined to live the life of a rich woman, and Jo dreams of a career as a writer. Their stories, their dreams, their romances, and their quarrels keep us turning page after page as they grow together into womanhood.

Theo flees from criminal charges and falls in with a charlatan, his dwarf attendant, and an urchin girl, traveling with them about the kingdom of Westmark in a dangerous plan to save themselves and the kingdom.

Angry and humiliated after his sharecropper father is jailed for stealing food for his family, a young African-American boy grows in understanding by learning to read and in courage with the help of his devoted dog, Sounder.

When eleven-year-old Jenny goes to stay with her widowed grandmother who lives by the seaside, she learns a great deal about the nature of love and the ways of the sea.

A ferocious tornado catapults a young girl down a yellow brick road and across the paths of Scarecrow, Tin Woodsman, and Cowardly Lion. All she really wants is a one-way ticket home, but what she gets is an adventure that will lead her and her newfound friends past the wickedest of witches to a presumably omnipotent Wizard in the glittery, magical, miraculous land of Oz.

Twelve-year-old Hannalee Reed, forced to relocate in Indiana along with other Georgia millworkers during the Civil War, leaves her mother with a promise to return home as soon as the war ends.

The journal of a fourteen-year-old girl, kept the last year she lived on the family farm, records daily events in her small New Hampshire town, her father's remarriage, and the death of her best friend.

Unhappy with his inability to score for his middle school basketball team, Chris takes lessons from his friend Greta's mother, who played in high school, and develops a good sense of teamwork.

As the premier left wing on his hockey team, Boot is most comfortable cruising the margins and sneaking in his best shots when they're least expected. But when he discovers that bodychecking is a new weapon allowed on the ice, Boot finds his game is in big trouble. He can't check - or won't - and his teammates are upset with him. Will he hold back and lose his place on the team?

Dooby, Wings defenseman and official team bigmouth, is one of the teams biggest assets. He distracts opponents, inspires teammates, keeps the coach up on what's what with the players. He secretly hopes to be elected captain. But when a girl gets the job, Dooby feels robbed. He knows the team needs his kind of talk, but isn't that the kind of leadership you're supposed to get from your so-called captain?

The Wolfbay Wings' top center is much appreciated for his pretty passes, and not just on the ice - his grade-school game on the basketball court has become locker-room legend by the time he reaches middle school. When the aggressively hip basketball coach tries to recruit Prince for his team, the Wings' sole black player finds himself torn: Does he stay with the sport he and his beloved Canadian grandfather know and love, or does he switch to the sport that everyone else thinks he ought to play?

When Reed, who considers himself to be a hotshot hockey player, injures a defenseman on his team, he is forced to take his place and comes to a new understanding of sportsmanship and being a team player.

As Shark's hockey game improves and he becomes a puck-hog, he alienates himself from his teammates and discovers that a nickname must be earned, not taken for granted.

No one's more surprised than hockey rookie Dixon Woods when he actually makes the champion Wolfbay Wings team--the best in half the country last year. But this year the Wings' coach has left for another club, taking the five best players with him. It'll take all of Woodsie's hockey smarts to help turn things around.

As World War II begins, thirteen-year-old Jessie, attending the Alveara boarding school in Belfast, Northern Ireland, begins to suspect that her German teacher is really a Nazi spy.

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

When Junior Blossom wakes up in the hospital, his last memory is of crouching on the barn roof with cloth wings tied to his arms, and of Maggie and Vern in the yard below, urging him to fly. That had been just before Junior spotted a police car approaching the farm in a cloud of dust. Meanwhile Pap, the children's grandfather, sits in disgrace in the city jail. He was arrested for disturbing the peace after his pickup truck accidentally dumped 2,147 beer and soda cans (worth $107.35) on Spring Street. With their mother away on the rodeo circuit, it's up to Maggie and Vern to find a way to rescue Pap and Junior. How will they solve their family problems?

In the bleak, forbidding house of her great-aunts, neglected twelve-year-old orphan Maggie hears ghostly voices and finds magic that awakens in her the capacity to love and be loved.

Tess and Tameka make a great team - on the field and off. They're planning to have a ball at soccer camp. But their plans go all wrong when the camp director assigns them to opposing teams for the camp playoff. Tameka's new team is counting on her to score, but Tess begs her best friend to take it easy on the field so her team can win. Will competition drive Tess and Tameka apart?

Frank and Joe face a dangerous lineup of hoods and henchman when they investigate a baseball embezzling operation.

The Watson family of Flint, Michigan - Momma, Dad, Joetta, Byron, and ten-year-old Kenny - head South to Birminham, Alabama to visit Grandma and come face to face with one of the darkest moments in American history.

After 12-year-old Lucas Whitaker loses his whole family to consumption he learns of a bizarre "cure". When he takes a job as apprentice to the town doctor, he learns about the scientific approach to healing, but seeing so many die, he desperately wants to help other families try the cure that might have saved his family.

A bratty prince and his whipping boy have many adventures when they inadvertently trade places after becoming involved with dangerous outlaws.

Eleven-year-old Cliff is the oldest of six kids in a family that does everything in a big way - whether they're fighting, laughing, playing, eating, or celebrating the holidays. And when tragedy strikes, Cliff's tale of the family's slow but steady recovery is both realistic and inspiring.

After injuring his hand, a silversmith's apprentice in Boston becomes a messenger for the Sons of Liberty in the days before the American Revolution.

A young girl finds herself lost in the Alaskan wilderness and befriends a pack of wolves in order to survive.

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.

Every summer Lily and her father go to her family's house in Rockaway, near the Atlantic Ocean. But the summer of 1944 is different. World War II has called Lily's father overseas, Lily's best friend Margaret had to move with her family to a wartime factory town, and Lily is forced to live with her grandmother. But then a boy named Albert, a refugee from Hungary, comes to live in Rockaway. He has lost most of his family to the war. Soon he and Lily form a special friendship, and they have secrets to share. But they have both told lies, and Lily's lie may cost Albert his life.

When eleven-year-old Eddie Ball wins a poetry contest sponsored by a local candy factory, he also wins the opportunity to hit a illion dollar shotat the NBA Finals. Suspense builds as the company's owner tries to bribe Eddie to take a dive.

A black family tries to unravel the secrets of their new home which was once a stop on the Underground Railroad.

It's been only two months since Spoon Gilmore's grandmother died, but already he's worried that he'll forget her. But Spoon's little sister, Joanie, won't give him time alone to think, even when they go to their grandfather's house. What happens there will stay with readers long after they finish this read.

Offered the chance to attend the NCAA tournament if the Branford Bulls become the top team by March 1, David Danzig goes to extreme lengths to secure the team's position but is warned by his mother that he will be grounded if he keeps losing his temper.

When Billie Jo is just fourteen she must endure heart-wrenching ordeals that no child should have to face. The quiet strength she displays while dealing with unspeakable loss is as surprising as it is inspiring. Written in free verse, this award-winning story is set in the heart of the Great Depression. It chronicles Oklahoma's staggering dust storms, and the environmental - and emotional - turmoil they leave in their path. An unforgettable tribute to hope and inner strength.

The Robber and Me is a heartwarming story about the triumph of friendship and the bonds between new-found fathers and sons. Set in 19th-century rural Germany, this timeless novel shows how one orphan boy struggles against a town's prejudice to do what he believes is right.

Brad loves baseball and wants to be a star player like his best friend, Butter, but he's probably the worst player on the whole team. When the big game arrives, will Brad strike out or become a home-run hero?

What's Andy to do? His cousin Stan's in a slump, but if Andy sends him an easy pitch, will his Scrappers teammates question his loyalty?

Three high school baseball stars end a victorious senior season with draft offers from the majors.

A solid player doesn't think he's jealous of his more talented teammates. But other teammates of his friends are bragging and getting on his nerves.

Ten-year-old Danny struggles to do well on the basketball team, but his biggest concern is his alcoholic, unemployed father. Both father and son learn to face their personal problems and reach out to each other in a somewhat predictable, but solid, story that is notable for its vivid sports scenes, realistic family dynamics, and unusual, understated portrait of a Mormon community.

Mama tells her daughter stories about Papa's island, a beautiful place where you can feed fish straight from your hand, see hermit crabs on the beach, and watch geckos walk on the ceiling.

From the moment Danny sees the beautiful Irish setter, he knows Red is the dog for him. Together Danny and Red face many dangers in the harsh Wintapi wilderness that they call home.

The story of a friendship between a 12-year-old boy and an immigrant handyman, almost wrecked by the good intentions of the townspeople.

It was a wild, stormy night when the unearthly visitor arrived to change the lives of Meg, her small brother, Charles, and their scientist mother.

Young Ella of Frell embarks on a quest to overcome the gift of obedience, a curse bestowed on her at birth by a fairy, and along the way, she encounters princes, ogres, fairy godmothers, and other fairy-tale creatures.

Tori is skating better than ever. But she feels terrible. She's always tired, and skating seems to completely drain her. One day she even faints on the ice! Tori knows she should tell her mother she hasn't been feeling well. But the national competition is only three weeks away - it's there that the members of the U.S. Olympic team will be decided. Tori doesn't want anything to keep her from competing. Tori's friends think she's folding under the pressure. But Tori knows it's more serious than that. Does she have the courage to face the truth?

Meeting the four Robinson children next door, ten-year-old Robin Brogan joins in the merry mayhem that always accompanies the Robinsons and rescues an abandoned dog that he hopes he will be able to adopt.

Anne, an 11-year-old orphan, has arrived Prince Edward Island only to discover that the Cuthberts want to adopt a boy, not a feisty redhaird girl. But Anne who simply must have more scope for her imagination and a real home wins them over.

The Alaskan wilderness is a lonely place for Mark Andersen, especially after the death of his older brother, Jamie. But in time Mark finds someone else to love - Ben, an Alaskan brown bear so huge that no one else dares come near him.

When mouse widow Mrs. Frisby needs advice on how to move her children safely, she consults the rats who live under the rosebush. Not only do they help her, they tell her of their escape from a laboratory where experimentation had made them literate, and of the brave death of her husband.

Left alone on a beautiful but isolated island off the coast of California, a young Indian girl spends eighteen years, not only merely surviving through her enormous courage and self-reliance, but also finding a measure of happiness in her solitary life.

In this classic novel, the friendship between young Jess and Leslie grows as they meet in Terabithia - their secret hiding place - and only ends with the tragic death of one of them.

With over a dozen books now in the Soup series, Peck started it all with this hilarious account of nonstop mischief and timeless friendship.

Eager to help their homesick friend, Piffle Shootensinker, a seven-foot-tall European basketball star recently arrived from Pretzelstein, Soup and Rob attempt to locate the traditional music from Piffle's country.

One fateful day, 16 people gather for the reading of the very strange will of the very rich Samuel W. Westing. To their surprise, the will turns out to be a contest, challenging the heirs to find out who among them is Westing's murderer - and the winner may become a millionaire!

In hard times Jody Baxter's harsh world allows him one happiness, his fawn, Flag. Then brutal reality requires that he kill what he cherishes.

Old Dan had the brawn, Little Ann had the brains, and Billy had the will to train them to be the finest hunting team in the valley. Glory and victory were coming to them, but sadness waited too.

Until the day his father returns to their cabin in the Maine wilderness, 12-year-old Matt must try to survive on his own. During an attack by swarming bees, Matt is astonished when he's rescued by an Indian chief and his grandson, Attean. As the boys come to know each other, many months pass without a sign of Matt's family. Then Attean asks Matt to join the Beaver tribe.

Facing a year of night riders and burnings, Cassie and her family continue their struggle to keep their land and hold onto what rightfully belongs to them, despite the difficult battles they must continue to endure.

Angry when they are excluded from the soccer team, sixth grader Justine and the rest of the school misfits form their own team and begin training with a coach who drinks heavily but gives them a special gift.

The Boxcar Children have joined a community basketball league and are thrilled when they find out that Buzz and Tipper Nettleton, Greenfield's most famous basketball stars, are coaching their team. But when Tipper's Most Valuable Player trophy is missing. It's up to the Alden children to find out who's behind the trouble.