Fourth-grader Effie Maloney has a list of the lucky things that have happened to her since she was hit by lightning. Life is good when you have a great...

There is a vicious empowerment struggle going on in the "horror" genre. Domination of the YA readership by the "vampire" subgenre is being seriously challenged by the upstart competitor,...

Remember the old "Who's on first?" routine by Abbott and Costello? Well, if you loved that, you will love this. The humor and the puns just keep on coming....

When a team of anthropologists finds a dolphin's scapula on a dig in Africa, the lives of two girls separated in time by millions of years...

What might happen if you were to board a boat with a bear? In this amusing fantasy, a boy does just that, climbing aboard the Harriet and meeting its...

In a note to the reader at the end of A Boy Called Dickens, the author explains that while the story she wrote is based on Dickens's life, she...

A book for two voices with the harder words on the left side of the page and the beginner words in big, bold print on the right hand side....

Imagine for a moment that you cannot go outside during the daylight because of a disease.The only time you come out of your house is...

Pain. Cally's life is full of pain. Her mother was killed in an accident one year ago and life is falling apart all around her. First Cally hears her...

Geronimo Stilton, editor of The Rodent’s Gazette, is in need of a vacation. However, everything seems to conspire against him. Finally, his last chance is to go to what...