Stephanie S. Tolan

Children guess which animal is hiding. Then they slide open the page and the animal appears making a friendly sound little ones can repeat.

Joining his estranged father in a professional production of Shakespeare's "Richard III," Jared tries to cope with acting insecurities, his obnoxious half brother, and a theater ghost.

In this Christmas story, a mouse is invited by an angel and a fox to make the journey to Bethlehem and be blessed by the Christ Child.

When four child prodigies transfer from a center for research and rehabilitation to an experimental group home, they face another way of connecting with their world.

After reading a book describing the aftermath of a nuclear war, fourteen-year-old Whitney becomes obsessed with the inevitability of the earth's destruction and finds herself more and more paralyzed by fear and depression.

Having been dragged by his mother from one commune to another as she searches for a place to belong, fourteen-year-old Ty finds conditions at the new place, the Kingdom, intolerable, even while realizing that for some, such as his mother, this way of life is a haven.

When fourteen-year-old Jenny Skinner's mother goes on strike for better working conditions in the home, and as a result polarizes much of their community, Jenny, her three younger siblings, and her father come to some surprising conclusions.

Great changes are in store for the highly creative and somewhat eccentric Applewhite family when money problems force them to open a summer camp for gifted children, who almost immediately begin to rebel, while a mysterious interloper watches from the woods.

During her sophomore and junior years at boarding school, Michelle must confront several painful situations which make her realize the place is not the "Eden" she once thought it was.

Third-grader Marcy, who can't seem to do anything right, has an adventure involving a dragon and treasure, which bolsters her self-esteem.

Fifteen-year-old Jenny relates the further adventures of the Skinner family when her father decides to incorporate the entire family into his new business venture called "At your Service."

Jake, a budding juvenile delinquent, is sent for home schooling to the arty and eccentric Applewhite family's Creative Academy, where he discovers talents and interests he never knew he had.

It only takes ordinary miracles to change your life.   Jasmine Smith: forty next month and not ready for it; married to a man she likes and not prepared to give up on love; smothered by life's mundanity, and yet drawn towards its mystery. She wants the sort of love that makes her feel more alive, she wants wild sex in stalled lifts with film stars. She wants something else....   Jasmine Smith is in desperate need of a miracle. And with the help of an adventurous school friend, a man called Charlie and a pig called Rosie she is about to find one.   A sharp, funny, moving novel and an exhilarating invitation to step out of quiet desperation and re-discover the magic in life and in love.

Ten-year-old Josh, who finds his private school unbearable, joins forces with an elderly man in tending injured birds.

Fifteen-year-old Jennifer recounts more adventures of the Skinner family as they set off on a vacation across the United States in a motor home.

Casey's friend Mackenzie is convinced that the mysterious older woman she sees around town is a witch and that she and Casey must do something to foil her.

Fifteen-year-old Jenny relates her family's misadventures homesteading in the Adirondack Mountains during the summer.

Her grandfather's increasing senility brings Kerry to a new understanding of both him and her own place in the family.