Maia Wojciechowska

A 16-year-old boy recounts his painful adjustment to the discovery that his adored older brother is a drug addict.

A deaf and dumb girl growing up in a small Spanish village finds in the church a priceless statue of the Christ Child which becomes the one thing that will not reject her affection.

God assumes the form of a young child and spends a few days with eleven-year-old Christian Wolny in New York, meeting his family and friends, going to church and school, talking about life, death, and love, and affecting people's lives in various ways.

A six-year-old Haitian boy travels to the market with his mother and gets lost when he tries to buy an airplane.

A Japanese boy grows up with the dream of following in his father's footsteps as a professional golfer in the United States.

A history teacher, who has been fired eighteen times during her thirty-year career, gives thirty-four of her students a month's crash course in survival.

A chestnut mare bought by an elderly widow at auction makes a great difference in the lives of her new owner and a bitter young neighbor.

Manolo Olivar has to make a decision: to follow in his famous father's shadow and become a bullfighter, or to follow his heart and become a doctor.

A chestnut mare bought by an elderly widow at auction makes a great difference in the lives of her new owner and a bitter young neighbor.

Memoirs of the author's adolescence during World War II, when her family escaped from Poland to temporary haven in France, Portugal, England, and finally, the United States.

Three brothers have everything they want except a mother and, after the latest housekeeper leaves in despair, they decide to help father find a new wife.

Includes eight tales, some original, some adapted from the folklore of Poland.

An account of the journey of the 16th century Spanish explorer who traveled from Florida to Mexico and who sought freedom and peace for the Indians.

An aloof and bitter 15 year-old tries to choose between leaving home in order to discover himself or staying with his recently widowed mother, a famous movie actress

Fourteen-year-old Byron and the disturbed boy he is baby sitting form a close friendship that helps them through several crises in the following four years.

Thrown out of her 12th foster home with only a copy of "Through the Looking-Glass," a 12-year-old black girl interchanges the people and situations of her life with those in the book.