Frances finds it difficult to go to sleep with the strange noises and menacing shapes that seem to fill her room after dark.

When Albert and his buddies have a "no girls" baseball game, Frances and her sister organize a "Best Friends Outing -- No Boys."

Jealous of her sister's birthday, Frances becomes mean and selfish, until rare generosity and birthday spirit move her to reluctantly give her coveted gift.

When things change around the house after her baby sister is born, Frances decides to run away--but not too far.

Riddley Walker is a brilliant, unique, completely realized work of fiction. One reads it again and again, discovering new wonders every time through. Set in a remote future in a post-nuclear holocaust England (Inland), Hoban has imagined a humanity regressed to an iron-age, semi-literate state, and invented a language to represent it. Riddley is at once the Huck Finn and the Stephen Dedalus of his culture: rebel, change agent, and artist. Read this...

A little girl dreams of ways to help her parents pay their bills, and a magic horse named "Stickerino" comes to the rescue!

Sister Brute has no one to love until she makes a stone doll and finds an ugly dog.

A young boy who is afraid of the operation that can help him get well learns to overcome his fear with the help of a caring nurse.

Letitia Rabbit uses a magic string to help Miss Green put the spirit of winter to sleep so spring can come.