Escaping over the orphanage wall to explore the outside world, Mandy discovers a tiny deserted cottage in the woods. All through the spring, summer, and fall, Mandy works to make it truly hers. Sometimes she "borrows" things she needs from the orphanage. Sometimes, to guard her secret, she even lies. Then, one stormy night at the cottage, Mandy gets sick, and no one knows how to find her--except a special friend she didn't know she had.

    He really was shrinking.Hilarious complications result as he becomes more minuscule by the moment. Treehorn is a bit downhearted when his teacher says, "we don't shrink in this class," and sends him to the principal. Poor Treehorn spends an unhappy day and night until he discovers a magical game that restores him to his natural size. This is a great relief to Treehorn before he notices that he is turning faintly green. . . .An ALA Notable Book

    A collection of eleven fairy tales from eastern Europe and the Soviet Union retold by a noted English author.

    For his owner's birthday Tubby, the elephant, constructs a huge paper lantern which carries them on a long trip.

    A fisher survives his first year in the wilderness through the help of a kind Ojibway.

    a nice paperback with illustrators from ages 8 to 63 book having 64 pages

    Ma Diamond made him for her little girl, Yolanda (Diamond Yo), when her real pet hamster died.In this book - the first of the Haffertee stories - Haffertee meets his great friend Howl Owl, the Diamond family, and some of the strange and amusing characters who share their home. He learns how he was made - and why.

    This year, Grandmother is not making any pottery. All the special clay she uses is gone--until Johnny runs away and finds a surprise.

    Book 7 of the Life Nature Library.

    A young girl is determined that her pony's blindness is not going to keep him from earning the blue ribbon in a horse show.

    Full-color illustrations.

    Illustrated by Laszlo Kubinyi.

    Eighteen-year-old Phil finds his summer job as fire lookout boring and uneventful until an electrical storm sets off a forest fire and changes his mind about the future.

    And that one, a strange girl named Ana Maria Rosalita, has more than enough troubles of her own.