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Franklin Delano Donutrhead, a fifth-grader obsessed with hygiene and safety, finds an unlikely friend and protector in Sarah kervick, the tough new student who lives in a dirty trailer, bonds with his mother, and is as "irregular" as he is.

"After viewing a scary movie about the Spacegrizzlies, Brother Bear has a nightmare."--Title page verso

Recounts the adventures of Mibs Beaumont, whose thirteenth birthday has revealed her "savvy"--a magical power unique to each member of her family--just as her father is injured in a terrible accident.

When the eldest son fell in the well and most of the time getting help was spent pronouncing the name of the one in trouble, the Chinese, according to legend, decided to give all their children short names.

Lou Crandall, a widow with a dozen kids during the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl years, used God's Bible, Webster's Dictionary, and McGuffey's Readers, plus her ingenuity, to create her own form of "spiritual" bailing wire, used to rear her brood from suckling babes to successful adults. Lou's Dirty Dozen, by Ranny Grady, is a saga of childrearing and family ties that will encourage hearty laughter, draw woeful tears, and cause readers to shout...

When his Labrador retriever survives a bear-mauling on Christmas Eve, Matt is convinced that her recovery is a miracle sent by his mother from heaven.

Laurie Lee writes about his memories of his childhood and family life in the village of Cotswolds, England after World War I.

While spending the winter of 1947-1948 in Miami Beach with her family, ten-year-old Sally makes up stories, casts herself in starring roles in movies, and encounters a sinister stranger.