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Looking in her fourth grade class for a girl to be her best friend, Claudia is surprised when her new companion turns out to be a boy two years younger.

An eleven-year-old girl, Claudia's parents tell her, should not still be playing with an eight-year-old boy, and from there things go from bad to worse for tomboy Claudia.

Miss Switch the witch returns to save Rupert and the entire sixth grade from the evil Saturna, who is operating a sinister web site and has installed her brother as principal of the school.

Jesse Owens grew up during an age when segregation laws forced him to eat at separate restaurants and stay at different hotels.

During Fun with Food Week in her school science class, second-grader Beetle McGrady tries to work up the courage to eat an ant.

While Rose's mother has a "quick chat" on the telephone, Rose is supposed to get ready for bed but finds she is hosting a party instead.

Instead of playing tennis, seventeen-year-old Jeff is required to spend his summer working on an Oregon strawberry farm where new friendships with field hands and migrant workers, as well as the fa

A young boy living in the Florida backwoods is forced to decide the fate of a fawn he has lovingly raised as a pet.

Recounts in electrifying detail the true events of the 17th-century witch trials in Salem Village, Massachusetts.

A traumatic experience as a college freshman left Gussie Milton afraid of relationships, but 'the widows' think she'd be a perfect wife for the church's young pastor, who shares

A cat arrives at a shelter, arranges to go home with a good family, and settles in with them, all the while letting them know who is boss and, finally, sharing his real name.

Twelve-year-old Alfredo "Stats" Pagano and Boston Red Sox pitcher Billee Orbitt work together to break a potential curse at Fenway Park.

Richard Pratt takes up where the legendary Narnia author's Screwtape Letters left off.

As his rock band tours Italy, eighteen-year-old Perry says a reluctant "bonjour" to Gobi, his former exchange student/Lithuanian assassin, who enlists his help on a justice-dispensing ram

While sorting out the painful details of her personal life, social worker Sienna St.