A Room Made of Windows

Author	Patricia Beatty
ISBN	0816713170

It's about a boy named Charley. He goes to the army to be a drummer boy or a bugler. At a confederate base he meats a man named Jem. When a war comes up Charley shots a man but he's not aloud to. He runs away because he shot the man.While running away he gets captured by a union soldier. He manages to run away. Eventually...

Author	Norma Johnston
ISBN	1892323281

I found this dusty time capsule in my backyard. It arrived on the back of a 1980s has-been actor (and he arrived on the back of a flaming jet pack!). The dry ice revealed a neon sticker that said "1900". "Remember me?" It said, "We loved this in our childhood. It reminded us of growing up in 1900! We were bosom...

Author	Rumer Godden
ISBN	1405088567

This book helped me through one of the hardest times in my childhood.

Long story, but when we emigrated from Canada to New Zealand, we shifted around a little bit before moving to the Eastern Suburbs of Auckland. At school, once the novelty of having a foreigner in their midst wore off, I just didn't...

Author	Kate Seredy
ISBN	0140345434

Life on the Hungarian plains is changing quickly for Jancsi and his cousin Kate. Father has given Jancsi permission to be in charge of his own herd, and Kate has begun to think about going to dances. Jancsi hardly even recognizes Kate when she appears at Peter and Mari's wedding wearing nearly as many petticoats...

Author	Zilpha Keatley Snyder
ISBN	0595370306

Eight-year-old Teera finds herself above the powerful Root that keeps her Erdling community captive underground. The Erdlings are feared and despised by the Kindar people who live in the massive trees above. Raamo and Neric, two young Kindar discover Teera and for reasons of their own decide to keep...

Author	Helen Cresswell
ISBN	0192753991

Everybody in Jack's family seems to be brilliant - apart from Jack and his downtrodden dog Zero. Even his little sister can beat him at swimming. But Jack's uncle Parker has come up with a plan to make him and Zero shine: they'll pretend that Jack can tell the future! If only they could foresee what chaos...

Author	J.R. Parker
ISBN	0615366503

The land of Gable--renowned for its birds, revered for its legends and secrets--is home to the grandest castle in the known world. Inside this castle, in a narrow cell atop the dungeon tower, the legendary Marauder known as James Kestrel awaits his hanging. Amidst the anticipation and speculation...

Author	Crescent Dragonwagon
ISBN	0553238647

I'm going to be honest with you: at least 60% of the reason I read this is because of its author's cracktastic pen name. In combination with the paperback's cover, the book summary, and a co-writing credit with established YA author Paul Zindel, it absolutely sounds like a 19-year-old human disaster...

Author	Jane Langton
ISBN	0064401243

When Prince Krishna is called away, he leaves behind some strict instructions for the Hall children about one of the openings in the mysterious summerhouse: Keep Out! As Eddy and Eleanor swing through each of the other openings, they refuse to break the rule, even as their temptation grows. But when...

Author	Ruth Christoffer Carlsen
ISBN	1477849424

You’ve never met a babysitter like Mr. Pudgins!

When Mr. Pudgins comes to watch John, Pete, and Janey, all kinds of crazy things happen. Faucets run soda pop instead of water, the bathtub takes them for a ride, a case of the hiccups releases birds into the house, and friends step out of the mirror!...

Author	Rosemary Sutcliff
ISBN	0140314725

A.D. 349

Alexios Flavius Aquila is an excellent swordsman but an immature military leader. A disastrous decision nearly gets him discharged from the Roman army, but his high-ranking uncle begrudgingly pulls some strings, and well-meaning-but-inept Alexios is transferred instead.

The...

Author	Mary Stolz
ISBN	0064400093

A poor family finds that yet again their Dad has lost his job. Dad dreams of being an artist and borrows a corner of his friends studio, where he can be a Sunday painter and paint a portrait of his employer. Mr Davis finds it hard to keep a job he hates, Mrs Davis works and has to leave the youngest with someone...

Author	Lois Lowry
ISBN	0395348293

At the same time Barbara Park was making a name for herself with juvenile humor novels in the 1980s, so was Lois Lowry. One might not think of her as a humorist, but Ms. Lowry could be almost as funny as Barbara Park. Caroline Tate, age eleven, is an apartment-dwelling girl of 1980s New York City. Her interest...

Author	Carolyn Haywood
ISBN	0152051015

Carolyn Haywood's stories about her irrepressible character Betsy have never been out of print, and now, thanks to dynamic new covers, the Betsy books will find their way onto the bookshelves of modern young readers--and into the hearts of a whole new generation.

Third grade begins with...

Author	E.L. Konigsburg
ISBN	0689823320

Long before there was Dolly the sheep, Jeanmarie Troxell dubbed the look-alike, think-alike girls in her school "clones" and decided she wanted nothing to do with them. That's how Jeanmarie forms an unlikely friendship with another outsider, Malcolm Soo, over an equally unlikely activity -- burying...

Author	Lloyd Alexander
ISBN	0141310693

Theo is traveling through Westmark, learning about the country of which he will soon be Prince Consort. He is not surprised to find great poverty-Mickle (now known as Princess Augusta) could have told him that from her years on the street. His friend Florian could have told him about the aristocracy's...

Author	Hazel B. West
ISBN	1505596130

In an Ireland that mixes high kings, faeries, and modern warriors who drive fast cars, Ciran, a descendant from the famous warrior Fionn Mac Cool, bands together with a company of young warriors to go on a quest to recover their missing family members who were captured on patrol by the Goblins during a...

Author	Geraldine McCaughrean
ISBN	0590203487

Nathan had almost always dreamed of pirates back at Graylake School. When he and his sister, Maud, become orphaned after their father suddenly dies, they leave England with the famous pirate’s son, Tamo White after he offers them a place to stay. They sail away to far away Madagascar where they settle...

Author	Susan Cooper
ISBN	0689869312

The mischievous Boggart is trying to help his friend The Loch Ness Monster in this “imaginative and compelling tale” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) from Newbery winner Susan Cooper.

It’s been two years since Emily and Jess Volnik visited ancient Castle Keep in Scotland and made...

Author

Kyle Robert Shultz

This is an alternate cover edition of ASINB01NBVJF02.

Fairy tales aren’t real. Private detective Nick Beasley knows that. This is 1922 E.A. (Ever After), an age of big cities, automobiles, and airships. Nobody in the Afterlands believes in magic and monsters anymore. Especially not Nick,...

Author	Esther Averill
ISBN	1590171608

At nine o'clock The Cat Club will convene to celebrate this wondrous Halloween night in Jenny's Moonlight Adventure. All the cats, from twins Romulus and Remus through to the wise Solomon, have been looking forward to this evening. The high point of the party is to be the nose flute performance by the...

Author	Walter R. Brooks
ISBN	0142302066

Freddy the pig, Jinx the cat, and Charles the rooster have been to Florida, and back again. But when the other animals who live on the Bean farm want to travel as well, Freddy decides to start Barnyard Tours, Inc. When word spreads across the countryside of the Bean farm's newest innovation, Freddy and...

Author	Bruce Wagner
ISBN	0812968476

Twelve-year-old Toulouse “Tull” Trotter lives on his grandfather’s vast Bel-Air parkland estate with his mother, the beautiful, drug-addicted Katrina—a landscape artist who specializes in topiary labyrinths. He spends most of his time with young cousins Lucy, “the girl detective,”...

Author	Clarissa Pinkola Estés
ISBN	1591790484

From five to seven times each night, we dream and glimpse into a reality not normally available to us. Now Jungian psychoanalyst and author Clarissa Pinkola Estés explores the symbols, themes, and insights of these letters from our unconscious, with the beginning student in mind.

From common...