National Network for Equitable Library Service

Ship hurtles through space, carrying the seed of humankind. Launched by the people of a dying Earth, its mission is to find a habitable world for the children it created from its genetic banks. But can they overcome the biggest obstacle to the survival of mankind: themselves?

A young Indian boy in the Canadian wilderness carves a twelve-inch canoe with a kneeling Indian figure and frees it to undertake a journey to the Atlantic Ocean in his place. Four years later this tiny vessel reaches its destination, ending a journey fraught with danger, excitement, and beauty.

To rescue their mother from an unknown time and place, Xander and David have lunged headlong into history's greatest and most volatile events. But Taksidian's ruthless quest to seize their house and its power has put all of mankind in grave danger.

David and Xander's search for their mother has led them on terrifying journeys as they've stepped through the portals of their creepy old house and into some of history's most turbulent moments. Now they must not only visit the past, they must rewrite it.

To find their mother, who is lost in time, the Kings must turn the tables on Taksidian, the menacing stranger who wants them out of their mysterious new house so he can use it for his own twisted purposes.

The Kings have been in their new home--a creepy old place with doors to other worlds--for only a few days, but they've faced enough terror to last a lifetime. Now Xander, David, and Toria must venture through the gates to save their missing mother.

The Kings are focused on rescuing a lost family member, until a stranger comes to take their bizarre house. What secret is he hiding, as he hides the scars on his body? Can the Kings harness the house's secrets and discover who is watching their every move?

When the Kings move to a secluded small town, fifteen-year-old Xander and his siblings discover portals to far-off places in long-ago times, and Xander wonders if this is a teen's dream come true--or his worst nightmare.

The adventures of two boys growing up in rural Vermont in the 1920's.

In this volume of fifteen tales of the town known to readers of Anne of Green Gables, a Persian cat plays an amazing role in a marriage proposal, and a foolish lie threatens to make an unattached woman the town's laughingstock.