When he decides to turn his fifth grade teacher's love of the dictionary around on her, clever Nick Allen invents a new word and begins a chain of events that quickly moves beyond his control

Final Respects is about people standing face-to face with one of the world's devastating man-made ecological disasters - the tragedy of the shrinking and dying Aral Sea. The dramatic lives of two childhood friends eloquently unfold as they find themselves on opposite sides of the issues surrounding this awful catastrophe

Fahrenheit 451 is a dystopian novel by Ray Bradbury. The novel presents a future American society where books are outlawed and firemen burn any house that contains them

Fever 1793 tells the story of Mattie Cook, a young girl who comes of age in Philadelphia during a tumultuous period of epidemic. Mattie is a typical young American girl who lives with her mother in a coffeehouse operated by the family. At the conclusion of the novel, Mattie has matured into a capable young woman who looks forward to life with a certainty of purpose

The Author explores the remarkable bond between a young girl, a boy and a damaged wild bird - a relationship that will touch everyone who reads it. While visiting her father in hospital, thirteen-year-old Isla meets Harry, the first boy to understand her and her love of the outdoors. But Harry is ill, and as his health fails, Isla is determined to help him in the only way she knows how

Having run away with her younger brother to live in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, twelve-year-old Claudia strives to keep things in order in their new home and to become a changed person and a heroine to herself

False pretenses was not only first contemporary suspense novel of C.Coulter. It was also her first hardcover , published in October 1988. It came out the folowing May in paperbook.

The youngest child of rich, neglect parents, Henry Grey was occasionally accused of being an overgrown brat. But all Henry wanted was a career that would bring him some geniuine fulfillment, a little advenbture, and a chance to prove his true character.

After spending four years with relatives in the South, a fifteen-year-old girl accepts the idea that slaves are property and is horrified to learn when she returns North that her home is a station on the underground railroad.

Four Past Midnight is a collection of four novellas by Stephen King, published in 1990. The four stories are "The Langoliers"; "Secret Window, Secret Garden"; "The Library Policeman"; and "The Sun Dog"