Felice Holman

Against all odds, Benno and his friends in the ghetto turn an abandoned house into a shelter for the homeless.

Jane's misdeeds get the neighbors in a rage, though her folks explain she's just going through a stage.

Forty-one poems about feelings, creatures and growing things, recollections, and expectations.

Left behind when his whole family is arrested by soldiers during the dark days following the Bolshevik Revolution, twelve-year-old Alex falls in with a gang of other desperate homeless children, but never loses his hope for a better life.

A young Jewish boy encounters numerous problems growing up during the Depression in a Pennsylvania mining town.

A collection of five tales adapted from French legends including "The Invisible Demon," "The Carpenter's Crop," "The Terror of Nerluc," "The Lady of the Moor," and "The Flying Serpent."

Having escaped from the Royal Botanic Gardens, the Giant Hogstalk sweeps through the English countryside creating havoc. Can it be stopped?

Forty poems portraying the moods, sensations, and experiences of childhood.

Except for one rare and very puzzling quality, Hooper Toote was not unlike any other boy in East Westham. The thing that set him apart, and in some cases above, was the fact that he skimmed — his feet never touched the ground! It was a puzzle, but not a problem. Not only was Hooper easy on shoe leather, but he was an absolute whiz at just getting around in general. Occasionally Hooper's skimming did get out of hand and he would rise up in the air, floating happily there for a while over the heads of his classmates. It wasn't until the Tootes moved to New York City that the puzzle became a problem. "Human Fly" was an early headline. But as a result Hooper met an inventor named Professor Smith, a boy named Blue, and skimmed his way through one adventure after another — from the histories of H. G. Wells, to the circus, to NASA. He also began to understand and perhaps solve the puzzle of himself, gaining new awareness of the world and his future in it.

The world is in such a mess that Solomon the cat decides to search for a way to improve the situation.

Twenty-eight poems about animals, objects, and experiences.

Two short stories which repudiate the stereotypes of repulsive rats and timid mice.

A lonely and withdrawn fifteen-year-old girl resents being sent to boarding school to grow up, but while there inadvertently discovers the meaning of friendship and involvement.

Five children, a farmer, and a dispossessed lady form a secret society, mobilize themselves in their motorized flying treehouse, and try to change the world.

A little boy exchanges Morse code messages with the cricket that lives in his house and together they trap the rat that has been plaguing the boy's father and the cricket's friends.

[Review from Amazon.com] "Professor Diggins is the kind of person everyone would want in their neighborhood -- polite, slightly eccentric, good with children, an odd storyteller, and an authority on marine biology. He also believes in dragons. When it is proposed that he take a very long vacation (the University is thinking of getting rid of him due to his references to dragon hunting in the modern world), he is convinced, rather easily, to take five children along with him to help him in his collection of seaside specimens. From here on in is a lovely tale about overcoming fears, living up to one's potential, and, of course, the dragons that we all know really exist, whether they are the external, fire-breathing variety (none, sadly, actually show up in the book) or the internal, psychological ones (fear of the dark, being unsure that we are loved, etc.). With great kindness, mild humor, and a love of language Felice Holman's book guides us along the way to acceptance of ourselves by ourselves (whether others do or not is entirely up to them)."

A young Jewish boy encounters numerous problems growing up during the Depression in a Pennsylvania mining town.

Thirteen-year-old Aremis Slake, hounded by his fears and misfortunes, flees them into New York City's subway tunnels, never again-he believes-to emerge.

Lovestrong : A Woman Doctor's True Story of Marriage and Medicine by Dorothy Greenbaum, M.D., and Deidre S. Laiken Marriage, motherhood, medicine—to some, the combination signaled disaster. To Dorothy Greenbaum, it meant the challenge of her life. But with her husband's love and support she would find the strength to go on, to achieve what others would call an impossible dream. Stillwatch by Mary Higgins Clark When pretty, auburn-haired Pay Traymore arrived in Washington, D.C., she had a number of goals in mind. One was to do a TV documentary on Senator Abigail Jennings, the woman most likely to become the next Vice President of the United States. Another was to uncover the truth about her own past. But as Pat sets out to document Senator Jennings' life—and unravel the mysteries of her own as well—she discovers that there is someone who will stop at nothing to see that the past stays buried. Crescent City by Belva Plain New Orleans lay before them: a new life in a new land on the eve of Civil War. The Wild Children by Felice Holman They were victims of the Russian Revolution. All they had left were one another and their dream of freedom. How these courageous children choose hope over despair—risking all for the chance of a better life—fills this tale with poignancy and suspense.