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...

This is an open letter to Stephen King: Dear Stephen (I use your first name since you have been in my head for at least 25...

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,...

Frances is headed out the door to play with Thelma today. "Be careful," says her mother. Thelma is a crafty one all right and this time...

Ten year old Jonathan feels a strong connection to wild animals and befriends a brown bear cub and draws in into his father's zoo where it kills a goose,...

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....