National Network for Equitable Library Service

Two old friends become puppeteers, each performing with the same beloved folk characters, Franz and Schnitzel. Fipsi, ambitious and naive, aligns herself with the rule government, the Common Good.

Standing at the edge of the ship, contemplating a watery demise, Billy is called back to reality when his dead mentor Sid Diamond appears as a handpuppet.

Humanity is facing extinction, and Penny Plain, elderly and blind, can only sit and wait for the end.

Annie Runningbird doesn’t have time for the games boys want her to play. She’s aging out of foster care on her next birthday.