Paul Fleischman

A young girl watches as the activities across the street from her bus stop become a circus.

In Seek!, electronic age sage Rucker casts his slightly zonked gaze on what passes for reality - mostly in Silicon Valley, where he now lives, but also Japan, cyberspace, and other areas of modern mystery. The essays and memoirs in Seek! trace Rucker's trajectory through the cyber-everything final decade of the second millennium. A computer scientist and industrial-strength programmer Rucker is articulate, engaged, and deeply funny.

One by one, a number of people of varying ages and backgrounds transform a trash-filled inner-city lot into a productive and beautiful garden, and in doing so, the gardeners are themselves transformed.

Wesley's garden produces a crop of huge, strange plants which provide him with clothing, shelter, food, and drink, thus helping him create his own civilization and changing his life.

When sixteen-year-old Brent Bishop inadvertently causes the death of a young woman, he is sent on an unusual journey of repentance, building wind toys across the land.

A poem for four voices, in which generations of ghosts gather to watch a family eat a holiday dinner, verbally drooling over every piece of food and grumbling at the way mortals rush through their meal.

In this horror novel parody, three self-centered members of Cliffside High School's ruling clique, who are beginning to age rapidly, become convinced that the beautiful new exchange student is the ghost of the girl whose death they caused the year before.

Lying at the end of her life in the room where she was born in 1851, Georgina remembers what it was like to grow up on the Ohio frontier.

A class takes a field trip back through time to observe living dinosaurs in their natural habitat.

A collection of original essays by twenty-one Christian writers: Rick Moody, Catherine Bowman, Kim Wozencraft, Joanna Scott, Madison Smartt Bell, Stephen Westfall, Jim Lewis, Ann Powers, Lucy Grealy, Bell Hooks, Lisa Shea, Jeffrey Eugenides, Joseph Caldwell, Ann Patchett, Eurydice, Benjamin Cheever, Lydia Davis, Coco Fusco, Barry Hannah, April Bernard, and Darcey Steinke.

When Olivia is summoned by her father, a man she barely remembers, to determine whether she is worthy of inheriting his legacy, she embarks on a personal odyssey that teaches her the true meaning of love and kinship.

A collection of poems about birds to be read aloud by two voices.

Lep, an apprentice to a doctor, helps his master take care of yellow fever victims in Philadelphia during the epidemic of 1793.

After being forced to sell the animals he loves, a farmer cuts his hedge to look like them and teaches his sons about following their hearts.

The first case to come to Phoebe Danger's detective agency involves a priceless cough syrup bottle, a group of Canadian ornithologists, and a shop specializing in Latin American curios.

A mute boy is held captive by the strange proprietress of an inn.