Betsy Gould Hearne

A young girl recounts the brave exploits of her female ancestors, including her great-great-great grandmother who came to America in a wooden sailboat.

Through her great capacity to love, a kind and beautiful maid releases a handsome prince from the spell which has made him an ugly beast.

Fifty-nine poems about love--romantic, friendly, familial--and the loss of love.

Presents several versions of "Beauty and the Beast" and "Cupid and Psyche," and provides several tales that reverse traditional gender roles. Includes commentary on each tale, activities, bibliographies, and a list of sources.

Growing up in rural Alabama in the 1950s, ten-year-old Alice has no one to talk to but Leroy, the black farm hand, but when Alice's doctor father moves the family to Tennessee, she has trouble fitting in and she sorely misses Leroy.

Nine-year-old Eliza's vacation in Ireland and England is complicated when she acquires a bouncy sheepdog named Panda.

A young giant girl is chased from her ancestral home by the "Screamer."

A collection of forty-six of the author's poems on such topics as city sights, insights, and relationships.

What would you do if . . . You knew secrets that others would kill to protect? Your parents became people you didn't recognize? A ghostly pair of highway robbers stopped you on a dark road in the dead of night? An old toy crow suddenly came alive, and you were the only one who heard it flying around the attic? Suddenly, you were the only one who could see peril around every turn? In fifteen eerie tales, you will meet the lonely, the troubled, the grieving—the ones who must answer these questions. They have choices; they have fears; they have life . . . and death. They will haunt you long after their stories end

Three children, two baby-sitters, two dogs, a rat, and a janitor finally get together and put an end to some confusion. Three children, two babysitters, two dogs, a rat, and a janitor finally get together and put an end to some confusion.

Eli searches for the mother he'd long assumed dead in a huge swamp where he is sustained by the ghosts of friends from earlier days and where a brush with death causes his own ghost to leave his body and get into all the mischief Eli never has.

Twelve short stories that reflect the varied ways that dogs and humans relate.