Twelve-year-old Abilene Tucker is the daughter of a drifter who, in the summer of 1936, sends her to stay with an old friend in Manifest, Kansas, where he grew up, and where she hopes to find out some things about his past.

Having run away with her younger brother to live in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, twelve-year-old Claudia strives to keep things in order in their new home and to become a changed person and a heroine to herself.

Mrs. Frisby, a widowed mouse, consults with the rats that live under the bush about moving her sick son. She finds that the rats are very intelligent creatures, after being taught to read. She, in turn, helps them from being captured

In 1943-, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis.

The adventures of an eleven-year-old tomboy growing up in the mid-nineteenth century on the Wisconsin frontier. At age 11, Caddie Woodlawn is the despair of her mother and the pride of her father: a clock-fixing tomboy running wild in the woods of Wisconsin. In 1864, this is a bit much for her Boston-bred mother to bear, but Caddie and her brothers are happy with the status quo...

Sixteen original stories reflecting the spirit of Chinese life and thought.

The story of a 14-year-old named Sara-moody, unpredictable, and on the brink of womanhood-and how her life changes when her younger, mentally retarded brother disappears.

The life of Louisa May Alcott is chronicles through her lively involvement with family and friends. Incidents reveal that her invicible spirit keeps the family afloat during the darkest of times.

A little three-colored cat comes to the home of a poor Japanese artist. She watches the painter as he works on a picture commissioned for the temple, introducing the animals, one after another. The story reveals the sacrifice made by the artist and the miracle by which the cat is at last among those blessed by the Buddha.