In 1171 twelve-year-old Hugh, burdened with a crippled leg since birth, is unhappy when his nobleman father, forced into exile in the bloody aftermath of King Henry's confrontation with Archbishop Thomas Becket, leaves him in the care of the monks of Glastonbury Abbey.

Growing up in the shadows cast by two world wars, Annabelle has lived a mostly quiet, steady life in her small Pennsylvania town. Until the day new student Betty Glengarry walks into her class. Betty quickly reveals herself to be cruel and manipulative, and while her bullying seems isolated at first, things quickly escalate, and reclusive World War I veteran Toby becomes a target of her attacks. While others have always seen Toby's strangeness, Annabelle...

A biography of the author's mother, concentrating on her childhood in Turkey before the Turkish govennment deported its Armenian population.

Three stories that explore various aspects of human nature. In the only fantasy story of the three, "The Man of Influence," a poor but arrogant sculptor accepts a ghost's commission to carve a statue of himself committing an infamous murder.

Nací en Ohio, pero las historias de Carolina del Sur corrían ya, como ríos, por mis venas. Hablan de crecer en distintos hogares, de una época que arrastra todavía los residuos de las leyes Jim Crow y del movimiento de los derechos civiles como respuesta. Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s,...

Embarrassed about gathering watercress from a roadside ditch, a girl learns to appreciate her Chinese heritage after learning why the plant is so important to her parents.

Left alone to guard the family's wilderness home in eighteenth-century Maine, a boy is hard-pressed to survive until local Indians teach him their skills.

W świecie Jonasza wszystko jest doskonałe: nie ma bólu, przemocy ani cierpienia, nie trzeba podejmować decyzji ani dokonywać wyborów. Nie ma też barw, muzyki ani uczuć. Obowiązuje tu ścisły regulamin, którego nikt nie waży się łamać. Każdy zna przypisaną mu rolę w społeczeństwie i wykonuje ją perfekcyjnie. Dwunastoletni Jonasz ma właśnie otrzymać swoją i rozpocząć szkolenia. Wtedy dowiaduje się czegoś, co nim wstrząsa...

"1242. En usa noche oscura, viajeros de toda Francia se encuentran en una posada y comienzan a contar las curiosas histories de tres niños. Sus aventuras los llevan a vivir una persecución por Francia: son capturados por caballeros, se sientan al lado de un rey y salvan la tierra de un dragón que se tira pedos. Huyendo de prejuicios y de las persecuciones y salvando preciosos textos sagrados de ser quemados, su búsqueda los lleva a un enfrentamiento...

When sixteen-year-old Thankful Curtis must leave Bright Island, Maine, for the first time in 1937, she has trouble adjusting to life on the mainland, new people, and "proper schooling," and yearns for her days of farming with her father and sailing.