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All About Sam

The adventures of Sam, Anastasia Krupnik's younger brother, from his first day as a newborn through his mischievous times as a toddler.

Anastasia, Absolutely

More adventures of thirteen year-old Anastasia Krupnick as she tries to deal with a new dog, her school values class, and a personal moral dilemma.

Anastasia Again

Twelve-year-old Anastasia is horrified at her family's decision to move from their city apartment to a house in the suburbs.

Anastasia, Ask Your Analyst

Summary: Anastasia's seventh-grade science project becomes almost more than she can handle, but brother Sam, age three, and a bust of Freud, aid her nobly.

Anastasia at This Address

Ready for romance, thirteen-year-old Anastasia answers an ad in the personals with an exaggerated description of her but soon runs into trouble when the unknown man turns up at a friend's wedding.

Anastasia at Your Service

Anastasia's thoughts of earning money during her summer vacation literally go down the drain when on her first day employed as a maid, she mangles a sterling silver spoon in the Bellingham's garbage disposal.

Anastasia Has the Answers

Humiliated. That's how Anastasia Krupnik feels whenever she tries to climb the ropes in gym class. How come everyone else can climb up those hateful ropes? Anastasia has decided to become a journalist and it should be easy to answer most questions.

Anastasia Krupnik

To Anastasia Krupnik, being ten is very confusing. For one thing, she has this awful teacher who can't understand why Anastasia doesn't capitalize or punctuate her poems.

Anastasia on Her Own

Anastasia's mother goes on a business trip and leaves her in charge of the house. Will Anastasia succeed with the help of the lists she insists should make her mother's job easy?

Anastasia's Chosen Career

Thirteen-year-old Anastasia acquires poise and self-confidence, a new friend, and advice on becoming a bookstore owner when she commutes to Boston to take a modeling course.

Attaboy, Sam!

Sam Krupnik wants to make a special surprise perfume for his mother's birthday. First he has to collect his mother's favorite smells in Ziploc bags. He uses an old grape juice bottle to hold everything from chicken soup to his father's pipe.

Autumn Street

Elizabeth is forced to grow up when her father goes to fight in World War II. Her family moves in with her grandfather, and a special friend is struck by tragedy.

The Big Book for Peace

The wisdom of peace and the absurdity of fighting are demonstrated in seventeen stories and poems by outstanding authors of today such as Jean Fritz, Milton Meltzer, and Nancy Willard.

The Birthday Ball

When a bored Princess Patricia Priscilla makes her chambermaid switch identities with her so she can attend the village school, her attitude changes and she plans a new way to celebrate her sixteenth birthday.

Bless This Mouse

A resilient and quirky colony of church mice fears another Great X more than they fear cats. Under Mouse Mistress Hildegarde's leadership, they save themselves from one danger after another, sometimes just by the skin of their tails!

Find a Stranger and Say Goodbye

A novel about faith, love, courage, and especially hope, Lowry describes Natalie's perfect lifestyle vividly and also the strain of the fact that she has been adopted. Natalie finds her birth mother and meets her for the first time.

Gathering Blue

A girl loses her mother and must fend for herself with a twisted leg

The Giver

Jonas lives in a perfect world--one without hunger, strife, rudeness or any other problems. Then he meets The Giver.

Glencoe Literature: Course 1, Novel Companion, Interactive

Gooney Bird and the Room Mother

The parents are so busy, no one can bring cupcakes to the play. Gooney Bird Greene to the rescue! She finds a room mother alright, but promises not to tell who it is until the day of the play. Now the kids are really busy getting ready for the show.

Gooney Bird Greene

A new girl in class who loves being the center of attention and tells the most entertaining absolutely true stories. There's never been anyone like Gooney Bird Greene at Watertower Elementary School.

Gooney Bird Is So Absurd

Mrs. Pidgeon's second-grade class studies poetry and her students write haiku, couplets, free verse, and finally, a tribute to Mrs. Pidgeon's mother organized by the irrepressible Gooney Bird Greene.

Gooney the Fabulous

Mrs. Pidgeon has been reading Aesop's fables to her second-grade class. What's a fable? Well, it's a story that has animals as characters, and it teaches you something important, and...

Gossamer

While learning to bestow dreams, a young dream giver tries to save an eight-year-old boy from the effects of both his abusive past and the nightmares inflicted on him by the frightening Sinisteeds.

Messenger

Matty, a young member of a Utopian community that values honesty, conceals a healing power that he cannot explain or understand. By Newbury Award winning author