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A sound of leaves
Par Lenore Blegvad. 1995
Sylvie, her mother, her brother, and her grandfather are spending the week at a relative's beach cottage. Sylvie's excitement over…
having an actual tree pressing against her window is dampened when someone refers to her as a slum kid. For grades 3-6Mary Anne in the middle (The baby-sitters Club Ser. #125)
Par Ann Martin. 1998
Mallory has been unhappy in school since her disastrous teaching experience the day the students were teachers. Now Mallory is…
considering attending boarding school. When she gets accepted, she discusses her decision with Mary Anne instead of her best friend, Jessi. This leaves Mary Anne caught in the middle because Jessi is furious. For grades 4-7. 1998Abby's un-valentine (The baby-sitters Club Ser. #No. 127)
Par Ann Martin. 1998
Valentine's Day is just a few weeks away, and everyone at school is getting in the spirit. Even Abby's twin,…
Anna, is excited. But Abby hates the idea; she doesn't like all that mushy stuff. So what is she going to do now that Ross has asked her to the Valentine Dance? For grades 4-7. 1998Here there be unicorns
Par Jane Yolen. 1994
This collection of eight poems and ten stories relates tales of the well-known mystical beast in both medieval and traditional…
settings. The story "Unicorn Tapestry" was inspired by two famous unicorn tapestries, the Hunt of the Unicorn and the Lady with the Unicorn. For grades 4-7 and older readersKristy at bat (The baby-sitters Club Ser. #No. 129)
Par Ann Martin. 1999
It is spring, and Kristy is looking forward to a great baseball season and to a week-long trip to a…
baseball camp with her stepdad, Watson. But everything begins to fall apart when she is suddenly dropped to second string on the Stoneybrook Middle School baseball team. For grades 4-7. 1999Stacey's movie (The baby-sitters Club Ser. #No. 130)
Par Ann Martin. 1999
Stacey has always dreamed of being a movie director. She is delighted that one of the Short Takes courses at…
her school is a film class and she is chosen as the screenwriter. When her team decides to interview their classmates, Stacey ends up making some startling discoveries. For grades 4-7. 1999Claudia and the little liar (The baby-sitters Club Ser. #128)
Par Ann Martin. 1999
Members of the Baby-Sitters Club are in for some problems. While sitting with Haley one evening, Claudia is instructed to…
make sure Haley does her homework before watching TV. Unfortunately Haley lies about having finished her work and, when caught, begins spreading rumors that Claudia, and maybe others, are traitors. For grades 4-7. 1999The fire at Mary Anne's house (The baby-sitters Club Ser. #No. 131)
Par Ann Martin. 1999
While reading her Teenzine, Mary Anne discovers the magazine is having a contest for the Baby-Sitter of the Year. She…
knows the Baby-Sitters Club can win. But Mary Anne suddenly has a different focus--her house burns down and her family has some important decisions to make. For grades 4-7. 1999On the first day of May, Henry wakes up and informs Mudge that today is Henry's birthday. But all Mudge…
does is roll over and snore. It takes several promises of good treats to eat to get Mudge going. But then Henry and Mudge have the best day of all! For grades K-3The all-new Mallory Pike (The baby-sitters Club Ser. #No. 126)
Par Ann Martin. 1999
Mallory is now attending Riverbend Hall, a girls boarding school. She misses her friends in the Baby-Sitters Club, but not…
the kids at school, who were always teasing her. She has a new problem, however--her roommate Alexis, who had two other roommates during the previous semester. For grades 4-7. 1999Here there be witches
Par Jane Yolen. 1995
Collection of seven poems and ten stories about witches, wizards, and warlocks. In the poem "The Magic House," Hansel and…
Gretel knew they should have taken a hint from "chocolate doorknobs, / and windowpanes striped with mint." Also includes a Native American tale. For grades 4-7 and older readersNoctuary
Par Thomas Ligotti. 1994
A discussion of the genre of weird fiction, followed by twenty-seven short weird tales, presented in three parts. "The Medusa"…
probes the power of classical myth in modern life, "Conversations in a Dead Language" explores the tradition of trick or treating at Halloween, and "Autumnal" examines deathBad girls (Bad Girls Ser.)
Par Cynthia Voigt. 1996
Mikey and Margalo are the new girls in fifth grade. Sitting next to each other, they soon discover that they…
are kindred spirits who like getting into mischief. Mikey likes to fight while Margalo likes to play tricks. Together they cause more trouble than the rest of the kids in Mrs. Chemsky's class. For grades 4-7The Aspern papers and other stories
Par Henry James. 1983
First published in 1888, "The Aspern Papers" is set in a crumbling Venetian palazzo, where a determined scholar tries to…
charm its inhabitants--the Misses Bordereau--out of a collection of letters by the American poet Aspern. Three short stories first published in the 1890s complete the collectionBlood Lake and other stories
Par James Krusoe. 1997
A collection of eight darkly humorous short stories each revealing a bizarre twist on ordinary events. The title tale opens…
with two men fishing in a leaky boat on a lake of actual blood, so that occasionally they need to dip their lures in anticoagulant. Some violence and some descriptions of sex. BestsellerThe author defines travel stories as oriented to the actual act of traveling, rather than to the destination. This collection…
of more than thirty such tales spans more than a century and includes works by Evelyn Waugh, Rebecca West, Edith Wharton, Anthony Trollope, Paul Theroux, and William TrevorThe story of Paul Bunyan
Par Barbara Emberley. 1994
Includes tales of how the mighty lumberjack Paul Bunyan and his big blue ox Babe cleared the land for planting…
in Kansas and Iowa, and how they dug the Mississippi River. For grades K-3Once upon a galaxy
Par Josepha Sherman. 1994
Forty-two tales of folklore, fantasy, and science fiction. Five categories, each prefaced by an essay, include the fantastic voyage, the…
child who becomes a heroic leader, the hero ignorant of his origins, the quest for a magic item, and the cunning of the trickster. ViolenceCollected stories: including The member of the wedding and The ballad of the sad café
Par Carson McCullers. 1987
Short stories from a southern writer including "The Member of the Wedding" and "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe," which…
are considered McCullers's best works. Many of the stories are autobiographical and feature southerners, either at home or transplanted to the north. Some violence and some strong languageDiary of a madman, and other stories (Penguin classics)
Par Nikolaĭ Gogolʹ. 1972
These stories, by the father of Russian realism, are set both in his native Ukraine and in St. Petersburg, the…
city that was to have an obsessive effect on him. Critics have acclaimed the early nineteenth-century writer for his uncanny understanding of the development of mental illness