"The Corrections" is a grandly entertaining novel for the new century - a comic, tragic masterpiece about a family breaking down in an age of easy fixes

The Catcher in the Rye is an all-time classic in coming-of-age literature- an elegy to teenage alienation, capturing the deeply human need for connection and the bewildering sense of loss as we leave childhood behind

The novel by Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) tells the story of the sad fate of a girl endowed with beauty and a sensitive soul. The curse on Tess condemns her to pay for the crimes of her once powerful ancestors. Ready to sacrifice herself for the sake of her loved ones, she protests against the gross violation of human dignity and is forced to commit murder

Simon finds a magic hippopotamus in the garden. It shrinks if someone says a word meaning "small" and grows again if the word "hippopotamus" is said. Simon loves his new pet but finds out that it isn't the easiest kind of animal to keep

The states became bored with their positiond on the map and decide to change place for a while. Also includes facts about the states

When a young lady goes to a big country house to teach two beautiful children, strange things start to happen and a terrible story of ghosts and danger begins ...

In "The Luck of Roaring Camp" a baby is born. He brings good luck - they say, and so they call him "The Luck". We meet Yuba Bill in "Miss Mullins of the Sierras". He's taking passengers across the mountains, but they're afraid. And in "A Portrait of Jack Hamlin", Jack changes a girl's life. But is he good or bad?

A young man and his dog drive west from Ohio and marvel at the farms of Iowa, the skies of Nebraska, the ilustrations wind in Wyoming, the mountains of Colorado, the desert in Nevada, and the ocean in Oregon

This book is about Muhammad Ali

Michael’s love for his one-hundred-year-old great-great-aunt, who lives with his family, leads him to intercede with his mother who wants to toss out all of Aunt Dew’s old things