Eleven-year-old Melody has a photographic memory. Her head is like a video camera that is always recording. And there's no delete button. Considered by many to be mentally retarded, a brilliant, impatient fifth-grader with cerebral palsy discovers something that will allow her to speak for the first time

In this stunning novel, Schmidt expertly weaves multiple themes of loss and recovery in a story teeming with distinctive, unusual characters and invaluable lessons about love, creativity, and survival

In the summer of 1968, after traveling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with the mother they barely know, eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters arrive to a cold welcome as they discover that their mother, a dedicated poet and printer, is resentful of the intrusion of their visit and wants them to attend a nearby Black Panther summer camp

Alex’s older brother bullies him, taking his bicycle and his money, until Alex discovers a way to stand up for himself.

In a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family’s wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression

One day May and Maureen break a window in grumpy Mr.Kipper"s greenhouse. When they try to put things right the girls get themselves into even worse bother. Another day they set out to do a Good Deed, looking for old Mrs.Shank"s stray cat - only to find themselves accused of torturing animals! Two comic adventures of a couple of friends who can"t keep out of trouble

The heroes are tested by faith, they become leaders, they go through trials and troubles

This part-autobiographical story is set in the Blue Mountains, scene of the author"s childhood during the Depression. This is an appealing story, full of gentle humour and nostalgia, for anyone of eight upwards

Something very strange is happening on the island Doriphoros in the Aegean Sea. Secret Agent John Carstairs must find out about it.

One of the most famous American books of the century. Love, jazz, and excitement! These are all part of Sal Paradise s adventures "on the road" with wild friend Dean Moriarty, and their crazy companions, as they travel across the USA