An Aladdin book

Life is never quite the same again for eleven-year-old David after the arrival of his new stepsister, a student of the occult.

Short, illustrated poems about nature, inner thoughts, and shared feelings.

Young Franklin Stein is lonely for a friend, so he builds one -- a monstrous thing called Fred -- from unusual odds and ends. The neighbors are alarmed and use words like "WICKED ABOMINABLE DUMB SINISTER ATROCIOUS WEIRD REVOLTING." But after entering a pet show, the labels become much more positive. And in the end Fred does help Franklin find a friend.

A gorilla not only wakes a little boy up, but it messes up his room and makes his mother angry.

Relates, from the point of view of his servant Salai, how Leonardo da Vinci came to paint the Mona Lisa.

The Williams' family lives a rough life, living out of their Model-T as their father searches for work. Though Robin loves her family dearly, she's always felt a little different from them--always restless and longing for things she can't explain. When the family finally settles down to work the orchards of the abandoned Las Palermas mansion, Robin discovers a wonderful, secret place--the Velvet Room--where she finally feels content. Over the course of an eventful year, Robin begins to unlock the Velvet Room's mystery, but just when she comes closest, events conspire to force her into a series of difficult choices that threaten to separate her from the Velvet Room forever.

From the hardcover book flap: The day began as June days are supposed to, in a burst of sunshine; but before noon, dark clouds were sweeping across the sky. And just before nightfall, a strange swirling ground fog, heavy and white, swept through the valley. It started out to be the day that Pamela was to leave Oak Farm, where she lived with her two aunts. It ended as the day she was left behind again, while her father went without her, as he had many times before. Nothing, Pamela felt, could relieve the gloom of such a day, not even the old amulet her father had given her. But then, out of the fog there came a boy--a boy with a flute and a herd of weirdly beautiful, misty-colored ponies. With them a summer began that changed everything for Pamela. For the ponies, so like the glass ponies on her shelf, and Ponyboy, a strange, wild companion, brought magic, mystery, and fearful adventure. A special book for those who love horses, and for those who dream of secret and stirring events.