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Struggling with Asperger's, Rose shares a bond with her beloved dog, but when the dog goes missing during a storm, Rose is forced to confront the limits of her comfort levels, even if it means leaving her routines in order to search for her pet.

When Geronimo Stilton's work as editor of "The Rodent's Gazette" interferes with his vacation plans, the only place he can still get a reservation sounds like a disaster, especially when he learns who he will have to share with.

After her father returns from the war moody and tired, Marly's family decides to move from the city to Maple Hill Farm in the Pennsylania countryside, where they share many adventures that help restore their spirits and their bond with each other.

A story about friendship: the daring ninja learns that the greatest thrills and the best adventures are the ones we share.

Newbery Honor author Gail Carson Levine shares her secrets of making magic with your writing--Publisher-provided summary.

Jamie Kelly shares with her diary who likes her, that she likes Hudson, and that Hudson likes someone else at Mackerel Middle School.

In 1903, Maureen, originally from Ireland, comes to Bostom to live with her old friend Sofia and her Italian American family, where the two girls share fifth grade class and various adventures.

When Wally, suffering his usual misadventures, accompanies his family on an aid project to Africa, he meets a boy who shows him what really counts and inspires him to give rather than take.

Grave-robbing. What kind of monster would do such a thing? It's true that Leonardo da Vinci did it, Shakespeare wrote about it, and the resurrection men of nineteenth-century Scotland practically made it an art. But none of this matters to Joey Crouch, a sixteen-year-old straight-A student living in Chicago with his single mom. For the most part, Joey's life is about playing the trumpet and avoiding the daily humiliations of high school. Everything...

This year, Cassidy and Jeff's classroom is in the basement. But they're not scared. There's no such thing as ghosts, right? Tell that to the ghosts. The basement belongs to another class--a ghost class. They don't want to share. And they will haunt Cassidy and Jeff until they get their room back! "The basement of Sleepy Hollow's elementary school is haunted. At least that's what everyone says. But no one has ever gone downstairs to prove it. Until...