Young Cal has watched the Book Lady on her sorrel mare ride the long trail up to his family’s farm every two weeks to deliver books. While his younger sister Lark loves to read and would happily have her nose in a book from dawn to dusk, Cal has never learned to read, and feels [...]
Ten year-old Charlie Bone has always been happily ordinary, and happy to live with his widowed mother, his two grandmothers, and his great uncle Paton. Although he knows that his mother struggles to earn enough money to feed and clothe them, and that he has disappointed his Grandma Bone, Charlie enjoys living at number [...]
Martha Snapdragon has problems. She and her father, Luther, live in the hot and noisy boiler room of the Horace E. Bloggins, the school she attends and where her father is caretaker, and, because her father’s job pays very little, they never quite have enough to eat.
Although Martha works hard at her lessons, and [...]
When Sarah and her best friend Ben observe the rotten Derek Henshaw getting turned into a frog right in the middle of the cornerstore while trying to shoplift, Sarah figures she has found a great topic for her science project. “Magic: Fact or Fiction,” she announces to Mr. Wyanth, the science teacher, who is [...]
