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After her mother's death, Tasha Washington is forced to leave Savannah and spend the summer in a rural Georgia trailer park with the father she's never known and the grandmother she's just met. When a mysterious illness begins spreading among the residents, Tasha and her new friend Ellie investigate local hoodoo legends and discover that a deadly supernatural creature may be stalking the trailer park. Blending mystery, horror, and themes of family,...

"Walking gthrough the misty Florida woods one morning, twelve-year-old Rob Horton is stunned to encounter a tiger--a real-life, very large tiger--pacing back and forth in a cage. What's more, on the same extraordinary day, he meets Sistine Bailey, a girl who shows her feelings as readily as Rob hides his. As they learn to trust each other, and ultimately, to be friends, Rob and Sistine prove that some things--like memories, and heartache, and tigers--can't...

Have you ever encountered an underwater marching band, a pig in a bathing suit, a pet orangutan, or a witch in a hardware store? Have you ever sat with a skunk in a courtroom, shopped for a dinosaur, or conversed with a Bupple, a Wosstrus, a Violinnet, or a Celloon? You will have, once you've read collection of poems.

A retelling of a classic tale in which a well-intentioned young possum continually takes his mother's instructions much too literally.

The zabaleen inhabit sprawling foul "garbage villages" on the outskirts of Cairo. Fifty per cent of the children born there will not live to be adults, and those who do may never know what it's like to be hugged, educated or cared for- unless they meet Mama Maggie.

"If you are a dreamer, come in, If you are a dreamer, A wisher, a liar, A hope-er, a pray-er, A magic bean buyer ... Come in ... for where the sidewalk ends, Shel Silverstein's world begins. You'll meet a boy who turns into a TV set, and a girl who eats a whale. The Unicorn and the Bloath live there, and so does Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout who will not take the garbage out. It is a place where you wash your shadow and plant diamond gardens, a place...

"An illustrated collection of comically irreverent rhyming poems for readers of all ages, ranging in topic from avocados and anacondas to zombies and zebras (dressed like ghosts)."-- Provided by publisher.

An expanded version of the traditional rhyme, in which the little dog runs away and explores the desert, mountains, and oceans before deciding that home is best. Includes music on the last page.

Using rhyme, rhythm and repetition, the scary text invites young children to read along with an adult. Together the adult's text and the child's responsive text create stories with a scary theme.