Bruce Coville

"In My Grandfather's House, Robert Clark traces the spiritual quests and struggles of his ancestors, from England's split with the Church of Rome at the end of the Middle Ages to his own return to the faith five hundred years later. Clark reconstructs their lives as medieval Catholics, heretics, and inquisitors in the England of Henry VIII; as Puritan settlers, participants in Indian wars, and accusers in witch trials in New England in the 1600s; and as preachers, artists, writers, and agnostics during the theological and intellectual upheavals of the nineteenth century that left them exploring creeds ranging from evangelical Protestantism to Unitarianism to Buddhism to atheism. In the context of King Henry's divorces, his quarrels with both the Pope and Martin Luther, and the religious and personal struggles of Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, and Margaret Fuller. Clark weaves a rich history that culminates in his own quest through doubt toward faith."--BOOK JACKET.

When an ordinary-looking fifth grader purchases a talking toad, she embarks on a series of extraordinary adventures.

Reprint: Originally published: New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, ©2003

"When Percy the mad poet assigns Ms. Weintraub's class to write poems about their pets, Pleskit decides the school should bring his Veeblax to school..."

Includes a brief biography of William Shakespeare, thematic and structural analysis of the work, critical views, and an index of themes and ideas.

A collection of nine short stories featuring ghosts, half-humans, unicorns, and other unusual creatures.

In this collection you will meet a host of ghosts, some frightening, some lonely, and some funny.

Based on Bruce Coville's best selling book series, this suspenseful family comedy follows the adventures of sixth-grader Rod Allbright and the extraterrestrial lawmen known as the Galactic Patrol.

Never before published stories by New York Times bestselling authors Jonathan Stroud, Gregory Maguire, Garth Nix, Diana Gabaldon, and others.Whether portrayed as fire-breathing reptilian beasts at war with humanity or as noble creatures capable of speech and mystically bonded to the warriors who ride them, dragons have been found in nearly every culture's mythology. In modern times, they can be found far from their medieval settings in locales as mundane as suburbia or as barren as post-apocalyptic landscapes—and in The Dragon Book, today's greatest fantasists reignite the fire with legendary tales that will consume readers' imaginations.With original stories by New York Times bestselling authors Jonathan Stroud, Gregory Maguire, Garth Nix, Diana Gabaldon, Tamora Pierce, Harry Turtledove, Sean Williams, and Tad Williams as well as tales by Naomi Novik, Peter Beagle, Jane Yolen, Adam Stemple, Cecelia Holland, Kage Baker, Samuel Sykes, Diana Wynne Jones, Mary Rosenblum, Tanith Lee, Andy Duncan, and Bruce Coville.

Nina Tanleven, six grader, and her best friend, Chris discover the tower room with its big brass bed and grieving little girl ghost.

Rod Allbright's body has been stolen by BKR, the most fiendish villain in the galaxy, which leaves Rod to share the body of a one-eyed blue alien named Seymour.

The adventures of a not very bright but friendly giant named Harry.

Tim, Pleskit, Maktel, and Linnsy have been taken captive by a mysterious alien, and now they are going to have to learn to work together to survive on the strange new planet where they've been trapped. But even if they do survive how will they find their way back home?