Central Kansas Library System

The day twelve-year-old Stanly finds a finger bone growing into a skeleton in his yard everything changes--his seven-year-old sister Miren adopts the skeleton, which only children can see, as a friend and playmate, and as her health continues to deteriorate Stanly blames the skeleton and tries to drive it away, although it is the only thing that seems to give Miren any joy.

Describes the panic induced when listeners believed Orson Welles' radio broadcast of "The War of the Worlds" to be news of an alien invasion, discussing the context in which the broadcast was aired and why it was so convincing.

Describes what Brooke and Sarah, two therapy dogs, do as they help young people to work out their feelings in psychotherapy.

Profiles athletes and teams that either fell far, far behind or made a terrible mistake, but refused to give up or quit.

Discusses briefly some of the personal and social benefits of studying the martial arts including development of discipline, self-esteem, humility, courage, and respect for others.