Aidan & Meg Falconer’s wrongly convicted parents are facing life in prison unless their kids can help them. But first, Aidan & Meg need to escape from a juvenile detention center in rural Nebraska. When they do, they find themselves on the run, both from the authorities and from a mysterious attacker who is trying to kill them. The Falconers must use their wits to follow clues across the country and prove their parents’ innocence, and there are plenty of thrills along the way. This is book one of Gordon Korman’s action/adventure series On the Run (there are six books all together--betcha can’t read just one!)

Quila has just lost her mother to a sudden illness. Now Quila and her father, who is a lighthouse keeper, are the only two people who live on an isolated island off the coast of Maine. They are both lonely and heartbroken until baby Celia washes ashore after a violent storm and becomes part of the family. But where did this baby come from?

Beginning at his toes, a little girl laboriously climbs up her father until she is perched triumphantly on top of his head. Along the way, she provides practical advice on making this a successful procedure: "Remember, the Daddy Mountain must wear a shirt. Because if you grab hold of his skin, he'll get mad."

Shipwrecked after a vicious storm, fourteen-year-old John Spencer attempts to save his father and himself while also dealing with an evil secret about the English coastal town where they are stranded. Great for fans of Treasure Island, this is Book 1 of a trilogy.

Fifteen-year old Bobby wakes up one morning and finds that he is invisible. In some books, this would be a rollickingly funny situation. Here, invisibility is realistically represented as a problem—a BIG problem! Bobby’s parents try to be supportive, but Bobby also feels that they are trying to dictate to him how he should handle his predicament. Ultimately, being invisible gives Bobby unexpected opportunities to explore new possibilities in his relationships with his parents and with other people—plus he gets to sneak into the private offices of a major corporation and do a little espionage!

Two mice, one who sleeps inside the house in a clock and one who sleeps outside the house in a stump, follow complicated but strangely parallel paths and meet each other at a window. The kindergarteners at King’s Highway Elementary School were delighted. The pictures are the thing!

From the author of Esperanza Rising comes this modern tale of Naomi Outlaw, her little brother, their great grandmother, some friends and a silver camping trailer called Baby Beluga--all on a quest to Mexico to find Naomi's father. This serious story, told with a light touch, warmed my heart!