Wrede's hilarious adventure stories about Cimorene, the princess who refuses to be proper. Every one of Cimorene's adventures is included in its paperback edition--"Dealing with Dragons, Searching for Dragons, Calling on Dragons, " and "Talking to Dragons"--in one handsome package that's perfect for gift giving.

    From the book by S.E. Hinton.Cast: 10m., 8w. (extras as desired.) Some variations possible. S.E. Hinton, who wrote this modern classic when she was 16 years old, comments: "The Outsiders, like most things I write, is written from a boy's point of view. That's why I'm listed as S.E. Hinton rather than Susan. (I figured most boys would look at the book and think 'What can a chick know about stuff like that!') None of the events are taken from life, but the rest—how kids think and live and feel—is for real. The characters—Dallas, who wasn't tough enough; Sodapop, the happy-go-lucky dropout; Bob, the rich kid whose arrogance cost him his life; Ponyboy, the sensitive, green-eyed Greaser who didn't want to be a hood—they're all real to me. Many of my friends are Greasers, but I'm not. I have friends who are rich, too, but nobody will ever call me a Soc—I've seen what money and too much idle time and parental approval can do to people. Cool people mean nothing to me—they're living behind masks and I'm always wondering "Is there a real person underneath?" This entirely practical stage adaptation deals with real people, seen through the eyes of young Ponyboy, a Greaser on the wrong side of life, caught up in territorial battles between the have-it-made rich kids—the Socs—and his tough, underprivileged "greaser" family and friends. In the midst of urban warfare, somehow Ponyboy can't forget a short poem that speaks of their fragile young lives:Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold.Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour.Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief,so dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay."Robert Frost wrote it," Ponyboy tells Johnny. "I always remembered it because I never quite got what he meant by it." Cherry, a beautiful Soc, comes to share a special sensitivity with Ponyboy as she discovers that he remembers poems and needs to watch sunsets. At the same time, Cherry's attracted to the older, tougher Dallas, and in a sense she's caught in the violent space between the Greasers and the Socs. While the Socs appear to have everything, the only thing a Greaser has is his friends. As these young people try to find themselves and each other, as the sadness of sophistication begins to reach them and their battles and relationships reach a resolution, Ponyboy's dying friend, Johnny, sends him a last message … I've been thinking about the poem that guy wrote. He meant you're gold when you're a kid, like green. When you're a kid everything's new, dawn. It's just when you get used to everything that it's day. Like the way you dig sunsets, Pony. That's gold. Keep it that way. It's a good way to be. This is a play about young people who are not yet hopeless about latent decency in the midst of struggle. Area staging. Approximate Running Time: 2 hours.

    So bored that she runs away to live with a dragon - and finds the family and excitement she's been looking for.Cover illustrator: Peter de Sève

    Melvin Spellbound's humdrum life suddenly becomes extraordinary when 111-year-old Borgel arrives and takes him and the talking dog, Fafner, on a rollicking trip through Time, Space, and The Other in search of The Great Popsicle, Anthropoid Bloboforms and Grivnizoids!

    Deciding her mother needs help, twelve-year-old Kate goes to pray with their pastor about getting her mother a new husband.But when God answers their prayers, even Kate is not prepared for the changes. Her mother's remarriage involves becoming part of a Swedish family with two brothers and one sister on a farm in northwest Wisconsin. Such a big change is made harder when Anders, who is also twelve, gets mad at Kate and seems determined to make her life miserable.As conflicts erupt with Anders, strange occurrences begin to happen around the farm. Kate is convinced she sees someone lurking about, but why? Are their lives in danger?

    No rules. No problems.Right?Wrong.And Jason's brother hasn't even found out what happened to his apartment. Yet.

    The night of their high-school drama group's cast party starts out as fun for sisters Amy and Erin.Their lives come crashing down when Amy takes the car to get more food and has a horrible accident. Erin and her family pray for Amy to awaken from her coma. But as the monitor bleeps and the respirator hisses, Amy lies somewhere between life and death.Erin and her parents must find the courage to accept the fact that Amy's life-support system will never bring her back. When she dies, can the family give some meaning to her senseless death? Can Amy's dying become the hope for someone else's living?From the Paperback edition.

    Includes The Story Girl and The Golden Road, both featuring the charming Sara Stanley and Kilmeny of the Orchard, one of Montgomery's most romantic and emotional works. Black-and-white illustrations. 6" x 9".

    After her father's death, Rebecca must adapt to a new life in a Vermont farmhouse with her mother, whom she hasn't seen for eight years.

    But as he and his dog companion journey along the northern English coast, there is never enough distance between them and the terrible war.

    

    In 1950s Chicago, twelve-year-old Richie, whose mother is a heroin addict, sets out to find his bootlegger, ex-con father -- a search that leads him into the boxing ring and uncovers the secret of his parents' past.

    Some people would call 16-year-old Liz Kitchell and her family truly fortunate, but it doesn't feel that way to her. It seems that only a miracle can give 8-year-old Katie her holiday wish. She wants a family, something she does not have as a foster child. As for 17-year-old Matt, he too is in a foster home and is finally letting himself feel a sense of belonging. When he allows himself to do a good deed for Katie, he doesn't realize what would happen. Is the spirit of Christmas strong enough to grant the impossible?

    

    At least whenever she's thinking of horses, which is pretty close to saying all the time. However, there is something Hummer avoids thinking of at all costs: why her father doesn't go in the house anymore, but sleeps in the barn, and why her mother neither bathes nor cleans house, or ever goes outside. Every time Hummer goes in, she holds her breath to avoid the smell of garbage. Twelve-year old Hummer is shy, quiet, and thin. But on horseback, she's fantastic. Her old pony Mike has gotten stiff and asthmatic. But one night Hummer catches an Arabian mare that has escaped. When the old-man owner turns up, he lets Hummer borrow the horse-call it a loan-and it is about to change Hummer's life.

    

    Caro, Ricky and best friends Sherri and Hal, are soon caught up in a mystery that takes them deep into the dark region of the planet where they face the formidable task of convincing the scientific community leaders that the pets of the End region Base, the beautiful, highly intelligent Lumini lupus, or 'lumies,' are deadly killers.

    Suddenly she realizes she wants an identity of her own.

    Reflecting upon some of their past conversations with Lissa and feeling guilty for not having recognized her warnings, the teens decide to take action towards helping others in distress. They establish Ears, a telephone hotline at their high school, and make it a success in spite of the pessimism of the authorities. In a time span of six weeks, suspense builds as readers share common concerns with the protagonists. Whether Ears will survive and how the teens will manage their lives while maintaining the hotline sets the scene and provides fodder for this new series. Strong characterizations, realistic conversations, interesting subplots, and unresolved conflicts make the book difficult to put down. Meyer offers a candid, well-researched account concerning the causes and prevention of teen suicide without the didacticism and morbidity that often hamper books of this sort. YAs will welcome this book, as it offers a solution with sensitivity and understanding. --Linda Zoppa, Queens College Laboratory SchoolsCopyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. (From School Library Journal)

    Forced to marry a cousin in order to keep the de Bellefort money intact, the heroine of this novel is in love with the cousin she could not marry and so leads a life of deceit.

    With highly accessible text and engaging photographs, this engrossing collection offers in-depth profiles of some of the world's most interesting figures.

    Seven toys who have enjoyed a peaceful existence in an attic trunk are threatened when the owners of the house decide to clean out the attic.

    It seems the prize for winning is twelve front-row tickets for the Rah-Rahs, an all-female rock group that George and his buddies are just wild about....

    Tulista tells Alana that she will be gone for 28 days but it will only feel like a few seconds to Alana. Alana gains entry to the restricted time laboratory to watch as Tulista is hurled back in time only to reappear seconds later, this time as the hostage of a sinister warrior, Silverthorn. When Tulista breaks free, Silverthorn takes Alana as his hostage and escapes back in time. Alana emerges from the time capsule to find herself lost in a strange world — the 1990s...

    It looked sadly neglected and tumbledown: some of the windows were boarded, some were partly broken out, and the weathered door hung crookedly from a single hinge. Still, it was the closest thing to a picture-book cottage that the three children had ever seen. For a second they stood there breathless. In their hearts, they all knew it. 'This ..., ' Ashley whispered half aloud. 'This is where we're going to live!'"--Back of dust-jacket.

    After their plane crashes in the middle of the ocean, seven misfit boys struggle to an uncharted subtropical island, where they find a band of criminals who have been mutated by an ill-fated government experiment and then abandoned.

    There's nothing he can do about it and he can't always put a brave face on things. Often he wishes he could just fly away from everything, like an eagle, powerful and free. Gradually, through his experiences, Tony begins to understand that death can sometimes bring freedom. A very readable and sensitive story about growing up, family relationships, and facing bereavement. First published as I Carried You on Eagles' Wings.

    A group of Israeli children are saved from a sinking ship and reach a deserted island where they confront dangers and challenges with imagination and bravery.

    

    This book is a series of nine lectures Hahn delivered in 1913 and 1914, concerned primarily with style and taste rather than technique.

    Against all odds, Benno and his friends in the ghetto turn an abandoned house into a shelter for the homeless.

    Unable to see Sam abused, Mary Lou decides they should run away, and the two embark on a series of adventures that convinces them to go to the authorities with their story.

    She had met Prentice, a quiet young marine, at the rollerskating rink of her San Diego community and spends most of her time conjuring daydreams of long romantic walks, breathless farewells, and eternal love, the kinds she hears in popular songs. Marjorie's world is suddenly turned upside down when Pearl Harbor is attacked and the United States enters World War II. Prentice is sent overseas, and Marjorie tries to be as brave and faithful as the movie heroines. She also worries about her best friend, Ellen, whose naval family had moved to Hawaii just before the bombing. The war intrudes still further into Marjorie's life when her brother enlists in the marines while his best friend, Larry, is classified as 4F, or unsuitable for military service. Marjorie's father, who had been against his country being involved in the war, almost obsessively charts ever movement of the Allied and Axis troops. Marjorie's mother, who had always been submissive, expresses her growing independence by taking a job at an aircraft factory. The Narasakis, who had owned a Japanese-American grocery store in Marjorie's neighborhood, are sent to an internment camp. Marjorie herself becomes a "soldier without a gun" when she gets her first job, sorting rivets in the aircraft factory. During this time, Marjorie discovers that war is not romantic. Lives are disrupted, and decent people die or are wounded or scarred for life. She also learns that while her fantasies are exciting, it is in real life that she can best express her dedication, her heroism, and her growth.

    -- Picture information books to help answer young children's questions about the world around them

    But, after their mother dies they go to live with their father where Robin feels out of place and second rate to her brother in her father's eyes. She feels she may have to run away to get his attention.

    Ben-Mussy, a second-class junior wizard, bungles a spell during his Junior Wizard exams and ends up in Penny Woods where he meets Joel and Gemma and their adventures begin.

    8-page full-color photograph insert.

    When spirited but often-ignored Kelly discovers that her "perfect" older brother is a thief, she finally speaks out and forces her family to face their deeper problems.

    

    Picked up by a tornado and swept away from his family in nineteenth-century Texas, a dog has some exciting adventures in the frontier wilderness before making his way home again.