Just One Big Happy Family... That's the way Preston Scott would have described his all-American family. His parents seemed to have everything, including the ideal marriage. But then their perfect life started to unravel. Mr. and Mrs. Scott began to. fight-vicious, hurtful, drawn-out battles that went on day after day. Finally one day Mrs. Scott moved out. And that's when Preston's nightmare began... Now, three years later, Preston's dad is getting out of prison, and Preston is no closer to coming to terms with his feelings about him. Because how can you forgive your father for killing someone...when that someone was your mother? Here is Preston's searing true story about upheaval, growth, faith ... and the power of love. No one has an inkling that handsome, athletic, and talented Preston Scott is carrying a terrible His father was imprisoned three years ago. Now Mr. Scott is coming home to live with Preston and his little brother, Tyler and Preston has yet to come to terms with his feelings about him. Because how can you forgive your father for killing someone . . . when that someone was your mother? This unforgettable novel is a fictionalized account based on the words of the boy who experienced these events firsthand. "Impossible to put down . . . a stunning novel." V. 1992 Best Books for Young Adults (ALA) Children's Choices for 1992 (IRA/CBC) Young Adult Choices for 1993 (IRA) 1992 Outstanding Young Adult Fiction Award (The Southern California Council on Literature) 1993 94 Sequoyah Young Adult Book Award (Oklahoma Library Association)

Molly is hurt and angry when her best friend Tsippi seems to avoid her in favor of playing with Big Naomi. To get back at Tsippi, Molly lets it be known that Tsippi's parents are Communists, a fact that both embarrasses Tsippi and causes schoolmates to call her parents spies.

"The Revenge of the Werewolves" - that's just the title of your horror story that just own first prize. Too bad you didn't actually write it. Too bad you decided it would be a good joke to turn in the story you found in the trash. Because now the joke is on you!

Illustrations for standard nursery rhymes reflect farm, rural and town life in early America.

Book by Hentoff, Nat

Brilliant watercolors and a rhyming, rhythmical text relate the activities and emotions of a family

This amusing and fascinating children's book is often called the Russian "Thousand and One Nights." Who is the old Genie Hottabych? This is what the author has to say of him: "In one of Scheherazade's tales I read of the Fisherman who found a copper vessel in his net. In the vessel was a mighty Genie -a magician who had been imprisoned in the bottle for nearly two thousand years. The Genie had sworn to make the one who freed him rich, powerful and happy. "But what if such a Genie suddenly came to life in the Soviet Union, in Moscow? I tried to imagine what would have happened if a very ordinary Russian boy had freed him from the vessel. "And imagine, I suddenly discovered that a schoolboy named Volka Kostylkov, the very same Volka who used to live on Three Ponds Street, you know, the best diver at summer camp last year . . . On second thought, I believe we had better begin from the beginning . . . "

Three farmers who each claim the moon as their own go to the Teacher to find out who actually owns it

Retells six tales from American black folk literature.

Everyone in the family tries to bribe the new baby into being born, but a kiss from Father finally does it.

The Empress of Zurm and others receive invitations to a battle from Zormla and his select squad of one-eyed teddy bears.

MINOR WEAR ON EDGES OF COVERS. PAGES ARE CLEAN WITH NO WRITING AND MARKS.

An illustrated collection of twelve folk tales, ten African and two Jewish.

Rose wonders who she is, asking herself if she would still be Rose if her name were not Rose, and goes on a journey in search of herself.

When a wizard discovered that each color he invented for the colorless world had a different emotional effect on people, he luckily had an accident which resulted in red apples, green leaves, and yellow bananas