After being exiled by his merchant uncle for daydreaming, Carlo is sent off in disgrace. With a treasure map he discovers in a book and with some interesting traveling companions, Carlo begins his quest across the desert on the Road of Golden Dreams, finding much more than he expects!

As the orphaned maidservant to the daughter of the Baron of Cant, Lucy Wickwright has always done what she's told. Until now that is. Lucy gets caught up in a secret rebellion, and much to her surprise, finds that the future of the Barony is in her hands.

A cool new teacher, frogs, tea at an old lady's house, mysterious letters written to three people. These are all possible clues surrounding a stolen painting that is being held for ransom. Two students begin to piece things together using pentominoes and intuition. Hey, what are pentominoes anyway?

Darcy Spillman LOVES baseball. He also finds a new interest in Danalda Chase. Since baseball is what Darcy knows, he turns his pursuit of a kiss from Danalda Chase into a game.

Josh Blevins, resident of a planet almost, but not quite like Earth, has only one dream. He longs to attend the Burlington Academy for the Superhuman, a sort of Hogwarts for superheroes, but there’s a major problem — he has no superpowers.

Fern recently discovered that she is an Anybody, someone who can make the imaginary real. Now she and her buddy Howard are off to learn all about their amazing powers at Camp Happy Sunshine Good Times. However, the camp is anything but happy.

Poor Dustin wants to be an actor when he grows up, but his sixth-grade class can't seem to get through a single performance of their play without the fire alarm going off or parts of the scenery crashing down. In the end, it is Justin who saves the day.

 Damian discovers a bagful of money that he is sure dropped from the sky and decides to get help from his older brother, Anthony. The two boys must decide what to do with the money...give it away or spend it?

In a remote seaside cottage, a wise grandmother gives advice regarding human nature to her loving granddaughter. "Crow-Girl" heeds the dying woman's words and begins weaving a journey from grief to fulfillment.

Jake Forrest loves to play lacrosse with his friends. He is good, very good because lacrosse is part of him, as an Algonquin Indian. When he moves away from the Reservation and attends a private school in Washington, D.C., Jake finds lacrosse is played there, too. But it is not the same game. Only winning counts.

Callie has agreed to go snowboarding on Mammoth Mountain with her best friend, Jen. But how can she go through with it when she is secretly afraid of heights?

Rebellious Scarlett, with her flame red hair, black fingernails and pierced tongue has pushed her fed-up and divorced mother too far. Scarlett is sent off to rural Ireland to live with her father and his new family. Her saving grace is a mysterious gypsy and his horse.

 After Weezie's mother leaves the family, she and her family must find the strength to deal with another tragedy.

If you're 5'11" in the 7th grade and coming to a new school in the middle of the year, you're going to encounter problems. Add to it that it's 1935 and you reside in Alcatraz and you've got a double whammy! Well, at least you can take comfort in the fact that there's 0% crime rate where you live.

Annabel goes to visit her dad and his new family in Australia, hoping to convince him to move back to New York.

Gregor misses his dad who disappeared two years, seven months, and thirteen days ago. No one knows what happened to him. One day, Gregor and his two-year-old sister Boots are in the laundry room and then they disappear, too.

Annie has been running all her life, not out of fear or desperation, but out of joy, for running is her great pleasure in life. Max runs, but his running is changing and Annie is not sure why.

Rodzina is sent on the orphan train from Chicago to try to find a new family after her parents death. She almost becomes a servant in Nebraska and a replacement mother in Wyoming until she finally settles in California.

Iqbal knows that his life is worth more than a rug. He and other children have been sold as slaves to Hussain Khan to work in his carpet factory. Iqbal knows how to weave beautiful carpets. He also knows that no matter how many carpets he and the other children weave, they will never pay off their families' debts. He uses his talents, intelligence and courage to bring them new hope.

It's the end of the school year and Allie and Dub's sixth-grade teacher wants them to befriend a new, strange boy, L.J. When their contact with L.J. coincides with the disappearance of their teacher's dog, Allie hopes to solve the mystery with help from another dog-a ghost dog!

For the love of a new motorbike, the thousand dollar variety, Joe toils in the fields with the Mexican laborers on his father's farm. He discovers racism and romance as he begins to view his world in an entirely different light.

They rule at school. They rule at home. They have the look. They have the attitude. They have an aunt coming from India to take care of them. Hey wait! Who needs that?! The Bindi Babes-three sisters on a mission to send their aunt back to where she belongs.

 When Tobin McCauley thinks of chickens, he sees his granny wringing the head off of one and watching it flap around. He's not so sure they have much of a brain, let alone a soul, but Henry has a different idea. Henry says that chickens hold the secret to the meaning of life. What Tobin finds in chickens is a new meaning in his own life.

 Since the family business is running a museum called Oddities, Alex and his father are excited by their new piece, an ancient Greek corpse. Then things start getting weird: Alex has crazy dreams, gets struck by lightning, falls through a door into the night sky, and the corpse wakes up!

Kevin and Holly are running, escaping from Arizona to California in Holly's old beat-up VW. First their archeologist mother was lost in a cave-in, then their house was burglarized and now they're being stalked by a mysterious man in white!

A struggling ventriloquist in post-World War II Europe, The Great Freddie's biggest problem is that his lips move, even when his dummy is supposed to be speaking. Everything changes when Freddie finds himself possessed by a dybbuk, a Jewish spirit of a twelve-year-old boy, Avrom, who was murdered by the Nazis. Avrom needs Freddie's help and in return he is able to help Freddie in ways he could never have imagined.

Four sixth-grade girls are pressured to join a book club with their mothers in which they read Little Women. In alternating chapters, each of the girls tells of how unlikely friendships are formed as they get to know each other in the club meetings.

Meggie learns that her father, a bookbinder, can "read" fictional characters to life when one of those wicked characters abducts them and tries to force him to read an immortal monster out of the story.

Bogie has a natural golf swing — but he's blind, and blind golf is a team sport. Can his next-door neighbor, kooky Birdie, learn enough about golf to be his coach? And what else will they learn about one another?

Jen feels that there's something "indefinably scary" about Moura, her Dad's new girlfriend. She's beautiful and stylish, true, yet way too interested in the castle-like estate that her dad has inherited. Then Jen's cat accidentally breaks a mysterious globe "witch catcher" and bizarre things begin to happen....

This is not your average collection of ghost stories. There are no ghosts or monsters, but the fear of possibilities, the unknown future, and the past that haunts.

Martha's classmate, Olive, dies suddenly in a bicycle accident after a short, lonely life. Though they hardly knew each other in life, an unusual connection is somehow formed between the girls when a page from Olive's personal journal is delivered to Martha by Olive's mother.

 People have different ways of promoting a cause, but Noah's Dad has taken a more "hands-on" approach. He sank the boat! Noah cannot believe he is visiting his Dad in jail on Father's Day --and yet, here he is. Now he must prove that the casino boat has been illegally dumping waste in the Florida Keys and his only allies are a scary looking woman named Shelly and a seedy character called "Lice."

Ginny's stuff — report cards, receipts, notes, letters, IMs and school assignments — tells the story of her frequently horrible seventh-grade year.

 Even on MY birthday, my sister manages to steal the show. With her around I feel almost invisible, like wallpaper. In a "pivotal life moment," I decide I am sick of being unnoticed, unimportant, and powerless. Look out, it is time for a change!

 Josh is sent to stay all summer with his eccentric Aunt Ethel. He thinks life will be dull without a TV or computer. But his adventure begins when he meets the ghost of a coal miner and finds a buried box of cash. Who buried the money, and why, and how far will that person go to get the money back?

Homework should not be so hard! How is Korean-born Joseph supposed to write a 2,000 word ancestry report when he can sum up his family history in two words: "I'm adopted"?! Searching for his roots means upsetting his adopted Italian family, but this may be his best chance to finally find the family that matches the face he sees in the mirror.

It is 1977. As Theo struggles with his science homework, a one picture and one minute message from planet Earth like the one that is being sent into space on the Voyager 2, he has too many unanswered questions in his life — why his father didn't come home from Vietnam and why his mother won't talk about him.

"Who wrecked Grandfather's wigwam? Could it be that yellow-haired new neighbor Hiram?" wonders Daniel, who is half-Indian and half-white.

Life for Charlie Harrisong is anything but normal in Normal, Illinois. He comes from a large loud family that lives in a (rented) mustard yellow brick house and they are poor. They stand out everywhere they go-targets for snickers and jokes from the other kids in Normal. Then, after an ugly incident at school, the Harrisong family flee, starting an adventure to the deep south that takes them away for good.

Maya is spending the summer in India with her nervous mother, who is trying to sell her grandfather's house. "In India, everything's so bright," her mother says. Maybe that brightness can shed some light on why Maya's parents have divorced - and why her father has disappeared.

 A gifted violinist, fifteen-year-old Reuven Bloom lives in the Pale, "the only region in Russia where Jews were allowed to settle." When Cossacks massacre most of his family during a pogrom, Reuven is determined to survive. He escapes first to Poland disguised as a peasant woman, carrying his baby sister in a basket on his back. But his ultimate goal is for them to reach America-the Golden Country.

 The time is 1953. There is hysteria across the country trying to route out Communism. Senator Joe McCarthy is holding Congressional hearings to find out who the Communitsts are and friends are turning each other in. Jamie's family has many secrets. These secrets,if revealed could put her family in danger and so she lies to protect her family. Jamie's trying hard to keep it together, but its all spinning out of control.

 A ghostly voice cries in the night leading Mariano and his friends on a quest through history to solve the cruel murder of a 19th century Brazilian slave girl.

Sean's dream is to be a glass blower and create wondrous art, but his parents see no future in it. Then with the discovery of a seemingly simple glass bottle, Sean's world is turned upside down and inside out. He proves that glass can be truly magical; and with a little help from some out of this world aliens, his dream just may come true.

Resigned to her fate as the future wife of the god Amun, fourteen-year-old Egyptian princess Meret prepares to spend the rest of her life shut up in a temple, alone forever. Yet the gods smile on her in the human form of Hector, the young Greek soldier who is in love with her.

Cissy, her parents, and a collection of colorful characters arrive in Oklahoma in 1893, hoping to build a new life. But when they refuse to sell their land to the railroad, and then the railroad refuses to stop in their town, they come up with all kinds of crazy schemes to make the train stop so their town can prosper.

Dinadan's greatest desire is to be a minstrel, but instead he is destined to be knighted and serve as one of King Arthur's Knights of the Round Table.

Alvin is suffocating under Mamma's overprotectiveness. He wants to follow in his hero's footsteps--Matthew Henson, the first African American explorer. After a big fight with Mamma, Alvin runs away. It is January, Alvin is trapped in a freight train with no heat, heading toward North Pole.

 Irene and her parents have moved to Italy for the year. She loves to play soccer. When Irene joins a highly competitive all-boys team, she learns quickly that girls aren't supposed to play. Irene must learn to overcome cultural clashes both on and off the field.

Willa has two different campaigns running: one is to hold dances in her family's Cape Cod Inn to raise money to save her local library and two, to further her romance with the blue-eyed, attractive Joseph Kennelly. Will it be a competition to which is the most important in her life?

Sometimes, it takes the most unlikely birthday present to teach you life lessons. In the case of our 12-year-old hero, an old lawn mower becomes his ticket to learning basic principles in economics. Of course, making money on the side doesn't hurt either.

 Rebecca is terrified when she returns home to find a Native American man chained in her home. He has been accused of murder and is being held to stand trial. Rebecca learns that he is innocent, but will he get a fair trial in a town seething with hatred for Native Americans?

Charley Maplewood has a birthday coming up, a big one, so he should have a party, right? He needs a theme, some fun activities, and friends. The problem is, he has no friends. How can he get some?

 The one bright star in exiled Napoleon's black sky is Betsy, a blazingly rebellious teenager whose family is reluctantly housing the unwelcome prisoner. Betsy is determined to befriend this former Emperor of France, and Napoleon is more than intrigued. Based on a true story!

An enthralling tale is woven and told through the words of Fletcher Christian's fourteen-year-old daughter as she seeks her father and struggles not to reveal his identity as the famous instigator of the mutiny on the HMS Bounty.

Based on a true story, this book tells about Sarah Tracy, who leaves her family's home in New York to take a job helping to restore Mount Vernon, George Washington's home. While there, she and Mr., Upton Herbert, the plantation's superintendent, deal with many challenges in protecting Mount Vernon during the Civil War.

Amanda Jane is a fourteen year old whose nickname is Rebel. Spending a summer with her grandmother in Seattle, she meets 15-year-old Moses. They discover a robbery that involves counterfeit money and encounter problems as they try to solve the crime by themselves.

It's 1964 and Alice's father, an FBI agent, has been transferred from Chicago to Mississippi to protect black people who are registering to vote. According to Alice, "Living in Mississippi was like living in a foreign country". Struggling to make new friends, acclimate herself to a new school and town seem almost impossible. However, she realizes that her life is a snap compared to what Valerie, the first black student in her school is facing.

Cathy is willing to do whatever it takes to win the friendship of the stylish Cassidy. She changes her name; call her Cat. She changes her looks; overalls to leopard print pants. She even changes her taste in music from Beethoven to the rockin' Milo Lennox. But is it enough? Scoring tickets for the Milo Lennox concert will be the perfect opportunity for her to prove her transformation from bookish braniac to cool cat!

 Breaking a chain letter isn't bad luck, right? At least, that is what Livvie thinks, but her superstitious friend Joyce doesn't agree. When Livvie's applesauce explodes, gum gets stuck on her shoe, her foot catches on the pommel horse and she knocks down the gym teacher, Livvie isn't so sure anymore.

Thomas loves reading about the Wild West in his hidden dime novels (small paperbacks). When his father offers him the chance to leave his grandparents in Virginia and live with him and his new family in Kansas, Thomas jumps at the chance. Now he can become a real cowboy or so he thinks.

The present day is rather bleak, both in weather and future outlook, so when Heather and Wellington discover that Merlin is alive in their time, they search for King Arthur, hoping his return will change the world for the better.

 Eric and Clive miss their father when he is away at sea, so they decide they will join him on the ship-- except they don't tell him and they don't want him to see them since they have come aboard as stowaways! Will they be able to pull it off?

Stolen by fairies as a baby, Neef, the mortal changeling has grown up in New York Between, a place full of fairy and Folk. When she accidentally breaks a fairy law, Neef finds herself banished, and must complete three death-defying tasks in order to return to her beloved fairy home.

The farming town of Horseshow is in the middle of a drought, so when Abram Harsich comes to town with the promise of a rain-making machine, everyone wants to help. That's when the children begin to disappear.

Peshtigo School is filled with eccentric students, including Hans-Peter's cousin Freddie, who was kicked out of her Texas high school for burning the field in a protest against animal cruelty. Now Hans-Peter has to share a house with Freddie. Will troublesome Freddie ruin Hans-Peter's chance of getting into this weird but exclusive school?

 Abby is not the least bit interested in her mother's private detective agency or any of her cases until Miranda is missing. When she picks up Miranda's locket, her hands feel warm and she sees in her mind exactly where Miranda could be found.

Taking the characters from John Bellairs's novels, the author continues the fantastical and supernatural adventures of Lewis Barnavelt. Lewis has found a silver whistle by a grave while on a scout camping trip. He is tempted to blow it; should he?

She is not a bad kid. She does the wrong things for the right reasons. But she learns that her impetuosity can lead to serious consequences.

A day hike turns into a dangerous adventure when Sam's father is accidentally blinded, delaying their descent down the mountain by several days. Finding out that they are being stalked by a dangerous predator doesn't help matters.

Lucy Moon has always fought injustice, but in sixth grade, her activism gets her labeled a bad influence, with double detentions and weekends serving in Youth Action with horrible Mrs. Mudd. Lucy begins to wonder if it's worth continuing to fight.

Princess Sylvie and the other characters of the book THE GREAT GOOD THING face unexpected stresses and challenges when their book is loaded onto the Web.

Sammy Keyes, seventh-grade super sleuth is at it again! This time, her routine class assignment leads to intrigue at the Vault, a local art gallery. Fortunately, Sammy has the help of Grams, her sharp and sassy grandmother, to piece together the toughest case yet!

Our favorite detective, Sammy, is totally bummed out. She finds out that her 14th birthday is only her 13th because her Mom wanted to get her into school early and changed her birth certificate. Add to this her discovery of a number of dead cats found in neighborhood dumpsters, and you have only the beginning of another Sammy Keyes mystery that will CATapult you into another adventure full of twists and turns.

How will Erin survive in middle school when the disc that holds her computer diary, in which she has said some mean things about people, gets published on the school's Intranet?

The Collins girls, Kentucky, Virginia, Georgia and Carolina, live with their mama in a small house in the country. It's 1955 and their daddy has been gone for 8 years. Times are hard and Mama works long hours in the kitchen of the hospital. When cousin Tadpole runs away from abusive Uncle Matthew, he heads for the Collins family and home.

Who could have abandoned two-year-old Ruby on Way Down Deep's courthouse steps? No matter, the good-natured twelve-year-old is now known and loved by everyone in the Appalachian town. Then a surprising past surfaces that might change her sweet life forever.

 Parkland Middle School is better known by its students as Darkland because of all the un-checked bullying of kids by other kids. Russell is terrified of Richie Tucker and tries to avoid him without much luck. His life is a constant state of misery until he meets Elliot and Catalina, and they become the Revealers. They are determined to do something about the bullying. The trick is--can they survive what they reveal?

 Amalee lives alone with her dad. But his four "big, goofy friends" from college consider themselves her parents, too. As if being in middle school ("less colors, less friendliness, and more meanness") isn't hard enough! Even worse, she feels meaner and isn't sure about her own friends anymore. Could life get more complicated? Unfortunately, it does. And Amalee is surprised at just who tenderly rises to the occasion--each in his or her own unique way.

Swept downstream, Tom becomes lost in an underwater cavern. While exploring many caves hoping to find a way back home, he discovers a dead body, a dog, a man with a long braided beard, and cutthroat treasure hunters.