"On his eighth birthday, Billy Miller wishes for something exciting to happen. None of his wishes are answered the way he expects, but he does have lots of surprises--and the final one is possibly the best one ever"--

"Introducing eight-year-old Marisol Rainey--an irresistible new character from Newbery Medalist and New York Times-bestselling Erin Entrada Kelly! Maybe, Maybe Marisol Rainey is an illustrated novel about summer, friendship, and overcoming fears, told with warm humor and undeniable appeal. Fans of Clementine, The Year of Billy Miller, and Ramona the Pest will be thrilled to meet Marisol. Marisol Rainey's mother was born in the Philippines. Marisol's...

Relates twelve-year-old Fanny's love-hate relationship with her father, a temperamental artist, who has given Fanny a new dog.

Here and then: Rue Claridge volunteers to find her cousin, who disappeared without a trace. After donning a mysterious necklace, she is catapulted back one hundred years, into the wilds of the Old West and straight into the arms of lawman Farley Haynes. Hard to tame, yet easy to love, he was more man than she'd ever known. Fate, she believed, had made him hers. If they survived the bandits who wanted Rue in widow's weeds, a century before her own...

"Historian Blaine Browne chronicles the political, diplomatic, economic, and social developments from the end of World War I to the Cold War and economic boom of the postwar years"--

Every day people tune in to The Writer's Almanac on public radio and hear Garrison Keillor read them a poem. And here, for the first time, is an anthology of poems from the show, chosen by the narrator for their wit, their frankness, their passion, their "utter clarity in the face of everything else a person has to deal with at 7 a.m." The title Good Poems comes from common literary parlance. For writers, it's enough to refer to somebody having written...

Gathers notes on and the lyrics and musical scores of traditional songs in the various languages of the British Isles.