As Judy and the rest of the Virginia Dare Bookworms prepare for the Book Quiz Blowout competition against second- and third-grade readers, her team discovers the other group has a fourth-grader and worry about their chance of winning sets in.

Nine-year-old Allie Finkle has rules for everything and is even writing her own rule book, but her world is turned upside-down when she learns that her family is moving across town, which will mean a new house, school, best friend, and plenty of new rules.

While trying to spare Erica's feelings so she could go to Brittany's birthday party, Allie disobeys one of her own rules and lies.

These personal diaries by the author of Pippi Longstocking chronicle her experiences in Europe during WWII and her astute observations of the conflict. Before she became internationally known for her Pippi Longstocking books, Astrid Lindgren was an aspiring author living in Stockholm with her family at the outbreak of the Second World War. The diaries she kept throughout the hostilities offer her unique perspective, as a civilian, a mother, and an...

Hattie wants a horse more than anything. Her friend Ellen has three ponies. When Hattie's father finally comes home with a horse trailer, Hattie is ecstatic. But instead of a horse, out stomps Olaf-a donkey. Now Hattie not only has horse fever, she suddenly catches lying sickness as well. Inclined to emotional storms and exaggeration-always with the best intentions-Hattie is an audacious and captivating character. This warm-hearted chapter book...

A little boy who's about to turn six years old is thinking about cake and toys and the best birthday gift of all, a puppy. Daddy tells him to look for a Wish-Tree, on the bark of which is engraved TAKECAREOFYOURWISH. The boy falls asleep as he ponders his father's advice, and he dreams of a Wish-Tree, with a trunk as big as a house and so tall that the sky had to bump up to get over the top of it. A remarkable adventure follows, involving the limitless...

Dear children, I present you with my fairytale world in the hope that it will make you happy. In it you can see yourself, foresee your future as all people are grown up children and we live with our favorite character all life long. They always accompany us and share their wisdom with us, we understand them better, and with them - ourselves. If we lose our fairy tales, it is as if we lose the magic of childhood. Believe me, the White-bearded bard,...

I Don't Got This is the moving, insightful account of life with a single mom who suffers from paranoid schizophrenia. Emily is an only child from Phoenix who has no family besides her mother. That is until she turns nine, when she finds out her mom has a sister, an ex-husband, and four other children she left behind in Columbus, Ohio. Through dozens of moves- first from apartment to apartment in Phoenix and then back to Columbus-Emily learns how to...

What happens when you mix a hot doctor, romance and a woman dressed up as Pippi Longstocking?Abby Worthington loves her gypsy lifestyle, but most of all she loves helping others. She's about to make her dream come true with a trip across the US when an incident with a swoony doctor leads her on a search within herself. Does she stay for more of the doctor or run like the wind?Was the one thing she always searched for right in front of her after all?Doctor...

Life in their rented summer cottage on Seacrow Island is sometimes happy, sometimes exciting, and sometimes tragic, but never uneventful for a Swedish author, his three sons, and nineteen-year-old daughter.