His sentence: to be reborn on Earth as a dog until such time as he carries out the seemingly impossible mission imposed on him.In his Earth guise, Sirius, renamed Leo, truly lives a dog's life. Although he is the pet of a girl who loves him, both child and dog are mistreated by the family with whom they live. But the worldly obstacles Leo faces are minor when compared with his chilling encounters with the Dark Powers that are set against him. His quest seems hopeless until at last Sol, Moon, and Earth itself come to his aid.Dogsbody is a tense, exciting, sciencefiction fantasy, a thriller, and a touching dog story all in one.

    "So, you're falsifying papers?" said Janna. "You belong to the Dutch Resistance." She looked at him curiously. The boy shrugged his shoulders. "You could call it that. I'm just helping the van Arkels rescue innocent people from certain death. They need these identification papers and food cards to keep alive. If you betray me, all these people will either starve or be forced to give themselves up to be sent to the gas chambers of a concentration camp." "Gas chambers?" Janna looked at the boy with horror. "You mean ... they are killed?" The book looked sternly at her. "Do you think," he said, "that Germany is sending Jews to a nice vacation spa, or to pretty villages with geraniums in the windows? That's what they told us at first, though in Holland we never believed it."

    It was a strange sound that somehow sent my blood pulsing more quickly and made me wish I could stand up and dance round and round the fire, but this I knew would not be fitting. Of a sudden I was aware of someone beside me, and turning, saw Ted Leister easing himself down to the ground. I thought it best to say nothing of the disagreement he and t'other Ted had, so I spoke of the singing."It nigh makes me giddy," I said. "'Tis not at all like English singing.""If it makes you giddy, lie back and close your eyes," Ted Leister told me. "'Twill soon pass."I did as he suggested, and I could feel the very earth under me throbbing from the beat and beat and beat of the voices and hands. My eyes were closed, but the dizziness got no better and I moved to sit up when I felt Ted's hand push me gently back again, and then he kissed me.

    Yet, after he had been chosen to become an Ol-zhaan, he made surprising discoveries and was exposed to dangers different form any he had envisioned. The world of Green-Sky was not what he and the Kindar people had thought. This science fiction fantasy was first published in 1975 and is the first book of the "Green-Sky Trilogy," It was a Junior Library Guild selection that became the basis for the video game, "Below The Root,"

    After spending almost a year with cave people from an earlier time, a young girl is transported back to the present greatly changed, both by her experience and by the fact that no one believes her.

    As five crippled children play games of imagining themselves in another beautiful world, one of the boys finds he can help the rest of them escape to a strange new place.

    Readers will enjoy "an intricate, one-of-a-kind comedy".--School Library Journal.

    . . and a black whore Hazel with a heart of gold. . . and stop me or Mr. Coleman if you've heard this one only he'll sneak it right past you. Orphan Jim (well that's what his sister Trudy, thirteen, calls him) and Trudy both hit the road out of Pluma, Alabama, toward Montgomery where they have some mean-spirited relatives who'll put them in a Home so they leave and only Hazel, visited weekly by her white married railroad man Mr. Harris, takes them in and lets them stay. Jim goes to school, Trudy pays their way working in a store, and when Mr. Harris dies real sudden--the youngsters have made it on their own. Coleman gloves the sentimental hard knocks and it's all as natural and unexpected and sunny as a dandelion on some forgotten back road.

    Feeling pressured and unhappy in her everyday life, a young girl welcomes the opportunity of having a look-alike life-size doll take her place at school and at home.

    Convinced of the rightness of her love, a pregnant sixteen-year-old follows the father of her child when he runs away from her.

    The newly begun Civil War is only one more complication in the lives of Bridget's family in which everyone seems talented--except Bridget.

    She had accepted their invitation because her earlier visit with her father - later shot in Washington - had intrigued her with the City. She sees a clown at the circus and becomes interested in him. She goes to the circus three times, finds out he wants to defect to the West, and helps him do so. A suspenseful story with excellent detailed background of life in Moscow.

    . . find they have an inexplicable ability to see momentary flashes of the near future, most of which foretell all too clearly the developments of a very unpleasant plot. In the face of daunting scepticism, they persist in using their extra-sensory insight to track down the villains. This is an exciting and complex novel.

    With the help of a highway patrolman, a twenty-year-old bull elk, his lifetime mate, and a camel calf strayed from a circus show attempt to reach Yellowstone Park before hunting season opens.

    Determined to overcome the obstacles of prejudice, Nabby proves her abilities, as well as her value to the American patriots.