So the Headmaster, aka "The Fish" decides it would be best to separate them. Bruno must now room with ghoulish Elmer Dimsdale, plus his plants, goldfish, and ants. And Boots is stuck with nerdy, preppy, paranoid George Wexford-Smyth III.Of course, this means war. Because Bruno and Boots are determined to get their old room back, no matter what it takes. And the skunk is only the beginning....

    Her feelings don't make it any easier for her to cope with Molly's strange illness and eventual death.

    Jess Aarons has been practicing all summer so he can be the fastest runner in the fifth grade. And he almost is, until the new girl in school, Leslie Burke, outpaces him. The two become fast friends and spend most days in the woods behind Leslie's house, where they invent an enchanted land called Terabithia. One morning, Leslie goes to Terabithia without Jess and a tragedy occurs. It will take the love of his family and the strength that Leslie has given him for Jess to be able to deal with his grief.Bridge to Terabithia was also named an ALA Notable Children’s Book and has become a touchstone of children’s literature, as have many of Katherine Paterson’s other novels, including The Great Gilly Hopkins and Jacob Have I Loved.

    For centuries, the earldoms of the North and South have battled. Now, four young people from different times -- with the help of their mysterious gods, the Undying -- must unite to save their beloved land.Traveling musician Moril has inherited a cwidder said to have belonged to one of the Undying. Can he learn to harness its strange powers in time to prevent an invasion?To avenge his father's death, Mitt has joined a plot to assassinate the tyrannical Earl Hadd. But when everything goes wrong, he finds himself on a storm-tossed sea in a boat with his enemies.

    Sold into slavery to the Northmen in the tenth century, a young Englishman becomes involved in a blood feud which leads him to Constantinople and a totally different way of life.

    

    This novel about a kidnapping gives the reader insight into the behaviour of different people under stress - the victim, those who care about him, and those who are inflicting harm on him.

    By turns harsh, kind, immoral, hypocritical, hilarious and spiteful, they are all dominated by the baleful presence of Marjory's unrepentantly Victorian grandmother. Marjory is motherless, her father a remote, weekend visitor to 'Gran's house', where Marjory belongs, but is isolated. Gran would crush her individuality, or crush her entirely: and Marjory has to bring all her intelligence, tenacity and humour into play to survive. As she remarks at one point, 'Some of the animals in our family are nicer than some of the people.' But she does survive. Glimpses of her adult life tell us the price she pays - but how she also never loses her wit, integrity and spark for life. No End to Yesterday won the Whitbread Prize in 1977 as a children's book, but it's an adult story. Whitbread judge Lynne Reid Banks said: 'The writing showed signs of a literary gift far beyond what one normally expects in children's books or finds in adult novels. The whole environment and the period are imparted. The imagination is pricked awake by the author's skill... and finds itself capable of evoking settings, smells, textures and even the strongly "other" emotions of that earlier time.'

    Fortunately, as English Patricia turns into Australian Patches, she does find true friends.

    Through the magic of gypsies who periodically camp on her sheep farm in Wales, Hannah experiences excitement, fear, change, and finally peace.

    Fernfeather questions the barren existence of the folk's underground world and crosses the forbidden barrier to discover the truth about their benefactors and the terrifying Gloom-World.

    After a fire destroys her family, Dee goes to live with an aunt and uncle whose house has a strangely deserted room formerly occupied by a girl no one will talk about.

    But that doesn’t mean he’s prepared to spend the summer with Martin Gorham, an old friend of his grandfather’s. And since refusing would mean losing his scholarship at school, Tad has no choice. He arrives at Mr. Gorham’s spooky mansion a few days later, but the only people there to greet him are the servants. When he finally meets the old man, Mr. Gorham makes it clear that he doesn’t care what Tad does as long as he stays away from him. With no friends and nothing to do, Tad knows it’s going to be a long, miserable summer. Then he meets Karen Nelson, a girl who lives across the harbor. With Karen to hang out with, Tad thinks the summer might turn out better than he thought. But he soon discovers that Mr. Gorham has a tragic past—and that somehow, Karen is connected to it.

    Yes, it was my face, all right. Or at least it had been…. This would have to be the forties… sometime during the Second World War…. The car that came down the driveway was a black 1941 Packard Clipper…. Yeah, I remembered. That was the first car I ever drove.Earlier that morning, middle-aged and unhappy, Bob was driving his Mustang on a highway in the Ozarks, when a truck hit him. The next thing he knows, he is what he used to be—a fifteen-year-old high school boy in New Jersey. Soon he is playing football again in a light, youthful body—only playing it with more confidence than before—and finding bitter-sweet joy in getting to know a girl he had been too shy to meet the first time around. Could these small changes affect the future? he wonders uneasily. And there is danger and suspicion in this paradoxical situation, too. For young Bob knows far too much for his own good. Where, for instance, did a fifteen-year-old learn about the supersecret atom bomb? FBI men, hostile and suspicious, question him for hours, and Nazi agents threaten his life.Adventure, excitement, and nostalgia stud this delightful story of time travel, poignant and gripping by turn. For fate has given Mr. Lee's brash hero the chance that many of us dream about—the chance to go back and live our youth over again, and this time to play it right.

    A young boy travels with his father, a railroad engineer, on the first train between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.