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"Should appeal to all rugged individualists who dream of escape to the forest."-The New York Times Book Review. Sam Gribley is terribly unhappy living in New York City with his family, so he runs away to the Catskill Mountains to live in the woods-all by himself. With only a penknife, a ball of cord, forty dollars, and some flint and steel, he intends to survive on his own. Sam learns about courage, danger, and independence during his year in the wilderness, a year that changes his life forever. "An extraordinary book...it will be read year after year." -The Horn Book

Principal Nichols wants Nate to be buddies with dorky new kid Breckenridge Puffington III and show him around the school, but that's no easy task when Breckenridge is a total fun-sponge. There's also something really familiar about this guy. What in the world could it be?

Tanya is special. She can see evil fairies who cast spells on her. At wit's end with her daughter's behavior, Tanya's mother sends her to live with her grandmother. As Tanya explores the nearby Hangman's Wood, she finds herself close to vanishing into the fairy realm forever.

In the second book of this FANGtastic spin-off ofMo O'Hara's New York Times'bestselling My Big Fat Zombie Goldfish chapter book series, an aspiring evil scientist and his mostly evil (and totally forbidden) vampire kitten blast off to Evil Scientist Space Camp. My epic summer has just gotten even more epic, because Evil Scientist Summer Camp just turned into Evil Scientist Space Camp! AND it will be led by the totally epic evil astronaut Neil Strongarm! Who is looking for evil apprentices for his next space mission! Which means that I could totally go into SPACE!!!

In this companion to the award-winning Madeline Finn and the Library Dog, Madeline Finn finds a way to help more dogs and read more stories. Madeline Finn asks her mother for a puppy every single day. Finally, Mom says yes, and Madeline Finn chooses Star, one of the puppies born to Mrs. Dimple's dog Bonnie. Then Mrs. Dimple tells Madeline Finn about animal shelters'a place many other pets come from. After a visit to their local shelter, Madeline Finn has some questions.

Continues the adventures of the very small bear who becomes part of the Brown family of London.

Looking for excitement, Coraline ventures through a mysterious door into a world that is similar, yet disturbingly different from her own, where she must challenge a gruesome entity in order to save herself, her parents, and the souls of three others.

Moose Flanagan, who lives on Alcatraz along with his family and the families of the other prison guards, faces new challenges when his father is promoted to Associate Warden.

Twenty Winnie-the-Pooh stories.

A twelve-year-old boy named Moose moves to Alcatraz Island in 1935 when guards' families were housed there, and has to contend with his extraordinary new environment in addition to life with his autistic sister.