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The happy home life of Socks, the cat, is disrupted by the addition of a new baby to the household.

Dominic the dog finds many exciting adventures and great danger fighting the Doomsday Gang after he decides to see the world.

Upset that he has to give up the room he loves to his grandfather, Pete decides to declare war in an attempt to get it back.

Seventh-grader John "Crash" Coogan has always been comfortable with his tough, aggressive behavior, until his relationship with an unusual Quaker boy and his grandfather's stroke make him consider the meaning of friendship and the importance of family.

Left alone by her Indian tribe when they decide to sail to the east, Karana, a young Indian girl, lives on a beautiful but isolated island off the coast of California, where she spends eighteen years, surviving through her enormous courage and self-reliance. Year after year she waits for the ship to return but it never does. Finally she realizes she must make a fateful choice: follow her people on her own or remain alone fo rthe rest of her life....

Having no one to help her with her problems, a widowed mouse visits the rats whose former imprisonment in a laboratory made them wise and long lived. Mrs. Frisby, a widowed mouse with four small children, is faced with a terrible problem. She must move her family to their summer quarters immediately, or face almost certain death. But her youngest son, Timothy, lies ill with pneumonia and must not be moved. Fortunately, she encounters the rats of NIMH,...

Unhappy about his parents splitting up and moving with his mother to Grandpa's farm, eleven-year-old Luke finds comfort in riding and caring for a horse named Beauty.

Sent to San Francisco to live with her beloved aunt and uncle, newly orphaned Emily expectantly enters their once happy mansion only to find unimaginable horrors.

Twelve-year-old Jeremy, spending the summer on Cape Cod, befriends a seven-year-old girl whose mother has just died.

A wolf-dog instinctively travels 2000 miles from Washington to Alaska to return to the boy who once saved his life.