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Fated to be the next Rapunzel, Holly O'Hair has long hair while her twin sister Poppy wears hers short, but when Holly's hair begins getting shorter as Poppy's grows longer, the sisters may have to reveal a secret about their fairytale destinies.

When robot Roz opens her eyes for the first time, she discovers that she is alone on a remote, wild island with only the animal inhabitants to help her. The Wild Robot raises thought-provoking questions about the environment, technology, and what it means to be alive.

When Justine Dancer is looking for a fairy to audition for a part, Faybelle Thorn, daughter of the legendary Dark Fairy, is not interested--until she finds out the role is that of a wicked fairy queen. It's the role Faybelle was born to play, and there's no way she's going to let some other fairy play it!

Daniel is finally ready to take on the biggest threat in the galaxy: the Prayer--the same beast that brutally murdered his parents long ago. Daniel will have to push his powers beyond the brink in order to bring down a monster that has the powers of a god.

Bick Kidd and his globe-trotting siblings set out to rescue their kidnapped mother from some nasty pirates. Their journey that takes them down the Nile River, where they must navigate everything from Egyptian pyramids to wet-and-wild jungles in order to save the day.

Why does Pop get so angry when Deja brings up anything about the towers? Award-winning author Jewell Parker Rhodes tells a powerful story about young people who weren't alive to witness 9/11, but begin to realize how much it colors their every day.

Tandy Angel isn't a normal girl, and she knows it. For one thing, her family is magnificently wealthy and lives in a massive apartment in the famous Dakota building in New York City. Her parents are the head of a prominent hedge fund and the CEO of a large pharmaceutical company. She has been told from a very young age that her detachment from any kind of emotion is a superb trait. In fact, her parents have tried to cultivate a lack of emotion in all four of their children in order to encourage perfection of the highest level.

Just before summer begins, thirteen-year-old Ali finds an old photograph. She recognizes the two children in it; one's her mother, the other her aunt Dulcie--but who is the third person, the one who's been torn out of the picture? Ali will have two months to figure it out, since she's spending the summer with her aunt and her cousin in the same house her mom and aunt used to visit when they were kids.

All his life, Tim Meeker has looked up to his brother. Sam is smart and brave, and is now a part of the American Revolution. Not everyone in town wants to be a part of the rebellion. Most are supporters of the British, including Tim and Sam's father. With the war soon raging, Tim knows he will have to make a choice between the Revolutionaries and the Redcoats, and between his brother and his father.

A fourth-grader fights back when her favorite book is banned from the school library--by starting her own illegal locker library.