The Remembered Visit

Author	Florence Parry Heide
ISBN	0823401898

"If you want to pretend you're shrinking, that's all right," said Treehorn's mother, "as long as you don't do it at the table." But Treehorn wasn't pretending. He really was shrinking.

Hilarious complications result as he becomes more minuscule by the moment. Treehorn is a bit downhearted...

Author	John Ciardi
ISBN	0064460606

Published to acclaim in the first years of the 60s, Ciardi’s clever verse suffers about half the time from that winking eye that some adults sport when talking to kids while only paying half attention to their first audience because the other half is reserved for the grown-ups. Some of the poems reflect...

Author	Andrew Larsen
ISBN	1771472677

When he was a child in the 1840s, Andrew Carnegie and his family immigrated to America in search of a new beginning. His working-class Scottish family arrived at the height of the Industrial Revolution. Carnegie worked hard, in factories and telegraphy. He invested in railroads, eventually becoming...

Author	Sarah L. Thomson
ISBN	1416968024

If you can imagine a place,
you can go there.

Imagine a place that makes you feel as free as a bird. Imagine a place where getting there is worth whatever it takes. Imagine a place that makes you feel like it's always been your destination. Imagine a place made out of pure imagination.

Imagine...

Author

Ian McEwan

That morning, Jim Sams, clever but by no means profound, woke from uneasy dreams to find himself transformed into a gigantic creature.

Jim Sams has undergone a metamorphosis. In his previous life he was ignored or loathed, but in his new incarnation he is the most powerful man in Britain –...