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Arthur spends a summer with his unconventional aunt and uncle and begins to look at life, his family, and himself differently.

Emma learns to accept "different strokes for different folks" when her aunt and uncle come to take care of her and her brother.

A sequel to "Cinderella Smith" finds Cinderella resolving to win an upcoming spelling bee when she learns that the champion will get to pick the class party theme, an effort that is challenged when her onetime friend starts bullying her for no apparent reason.

"A trip to the zoo has Cinderella Smith and her friends excited to start their endangered species reports--until all of the books on Cinderella's chosen animal go missing from the school library, leaving the Group in Cahoots to solve the mystery"-- Provided by publisher.

Fun loving Dodie is at a creepy beach house to get to know her neat little stepbrother and her cool, perfect stepsister, Anne. Anne is thirteen, like Dodie, but they couldn't be more different. When both girls hear footsteps on the stairs at night, they are thrown together to solve the mystery. Their investigation lands them in the middle of a jealous quarrel between two long dead sisters. How can Dodie and Anne pacify the ghosts?

Nine-year-old Dennis, whose uncle and father died within a year of one another, is visited by the ghost of his uncle, and together they settle some unfinished business.

"You're a custom-made kid, by God's own design. You're not three; you're not two; you are one of a kind!" Written with the whimsy of Dr. Seuss and the love of a parent, this rhyming verse makes kids' toes tap and their faces smile. Kids love listening again and again as a silly Mom counts the reasons for loving her child, while also reminding us of God's boundless love. Children are reassured by the message that love isn't dependent on glamorous looks...

Knots are necessary and imperfection is a gift in this poignant picture book about an Iranian boy learning to make a new family rug with his grandmother, from an award-winning duo. Here's something to remember: Even a rug can be a precious thing. One morning, a young boy is woken up early by his grandmother. It's time to make a new rug for the family. Together, they wash and dye the wool. When it's time to knot the threads, the young boy grows nervous....

Avery is a firecracker. In a crayon box of colors, she's the shocking pink and laser lemon, when all she wants is to be a quiet tan or soft cornflower blue. Her cousin, Jax, is a wall flower, because sometimes it's better to stay quiet when the alternative is to be told that you're doing or saying everything wrong. They seem to be the only ones who don't know what happened years ago when their family shattered and went off in different directions....

Winner of the 2005 Young Adult Fiction Award from the Association for Mormon Letters. As Kevin helps his parents with the family mortuary, his dream of working for National Geographic seems a million years away-until he and his friends are picked for a special science class at Armadillo Middle School. The class is taught by Dr. Alfred Leopold Wallace, the pompous proprietor of the local Arkansas Marsupial Museum and Discount Souvenir Outlet. Kevin's...