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If someone were to tell you they found a DRAGON in their family garage, you would think they were one of three things: 1) LOONY, or 2) LYING, or 3) VIVIDLY IMAGINATIVE. But Morris was NOT LOONY. He NEVER TOLD A LIE. And as for IMAGINATION, he had ZIP. ZERO. NONE! Therefore, he was the perfect person to discover a BONA FIDE (which means honest-to-goodness, no-doubt-about-it) DRAGON in his family garage.

We're in the dangerous streets of the New York tenements at the close of the 19th century, with two young boys who have escaped their vicious stepfather by faking their own drowning in the river. Matt and Mickey Deacon disguise themselves by changing their names to Nip and Tuck. But just changing names for two proverbial peas in a pod is hardly enough to save them from the determined evil predators who are seeking them: Hike Raider, their erst...

Maximilian Pettigrew Westmorington Bassford Thorndike Finstersill Smith the Fifth, otherwise known as Max, is an uber-rich, super-spoiled kid. His only friends are his dogs and one more-or-less (mostly less) friend, Percival. Suddenly and dramatically, Max loses both his parents when they sink with the glamorous holiday island where his father has invested every one of his gazillion dollars. Max, in one terrible moment, becomes a penniless orp...

Growing up in China! People often ask if I liked growing up in China. Did it feel different? Different from what? How could it feel different if the sights and sounds, and, yes, even the pungent smells had always been there in my life from the time I was born? Now, looking back on it, I suppose I can see where it was different compared to growing up in America, and perhaps can understand why people might ask. But it wasn't different back then....

Originally published more than a decade ago, this beloved novel introduces orphaned Emily Luccock, who arrives at her aunt and uncle's once-happy San Francisco home, only to find unimaginable horrors. Now with new cover art.

In the late 19th-century New York City, young Robin takes his baby brother and escapes from his brutal stepfather. He discovers a place called St. Something and joins tough but loyal street boys who make it their home. But many untold secrets lie before him--and the answers lie with the most unlikely person. 160 pop.

Now in paperback--the long-awaited sequel to Wallace's popular Victorian thriller "Peppermints in the Parlor, " which finds plucky Emily Luccock facing boarding school, a villainous headmistress, and the temptation of peppermints.

This is a story about furkens, descendants of a branch of genus elf, who have lost their elfin powers of being able to vanish and now hide fearfully in human houses. They are sadly often mistaken for mice, although don't smell like mice. They smell like warm apricot jam!They are "endearing, fully developed creatures, " says Horn Book.ALA Booklist adds, "A tale that will have readers clamoring for a sequel.

Bad things always happen in threes!" If a very old person like Grandmama says it, is it not true? This is the very normal, understandable worry eight-year-old Julia has when she has knocked a burning hot iron into her little sister's hand. The first bad thing! And surely two more must follow, if Grandmama says so. What will they be? When will they happen? This is an enormous worry, indeed! Although this gentle story about a family with three l...

Newly orphaned Jenny travels from China to live with a grandfather she has never met only to be condemned to a dark cellar room and a cruel servant's life. Why? "Guaranteed chills and thrills, " says Horn Book of Ghosts in the Gallery, nominated by Mystery Writers of America for its EDGAR Award. "Descriptions draw the reader a picture of time and place and atmosphere that is nearly perfect. Sure to be a hit, " says School Library Journal. Wash...

Colin Trevelyan, newly orphaned heir to his parents' fortune, is kidnapped in the night from his ancestral home and taken to the grim Broggin Home for Boys, where he is underfed, overworked, and destined for a short life in a deadly glass factory. This story "immediately hooks readers, who will gobble up this satisfying fare, " says School Library Journal. "Fully realized Victorian melodrama that would make Dickens proud, " says The Bulletin o...

How, Amelia wonders, could four short months have such a wonderful beginning and such a grim and terrible ending? Why must she now find herself riding to the docks of London en route to a strange new life in America, seated beside the stone-faced, bloodless, tight-lipped woman in the grim black hat? "The plot twists and turns at an alarming rate in the is story of dastardly crimes and firm friendships, and that's exactly what makes it so much ...

.The mystery has plenty of snakes and twists as well as characters that step right off the pages."-A Booklist Editor's Choice Book "With a fine hand for Gothic embroidery and a nifty surprise conclusion that ties up all the loose ends, Wallace has delivered another very satisfying read."-School Library Journal Winner of the Mystery Writers of America EDGAR AWARD

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Perfecta Jones is hemmed in by boring houses that to her are no more exciting than shoes boxes. She must obey ridiculous rules of the owner, Mr. Droopert P. Snoot, who has no use for children. On one magical night, Perfecta enters the house across the street, the only one not owned by Mr. Snoot. What happens to her there is an adventure that will change her life! "Characters reminiscent of Roald Dahl"-ALA Booklist "Sets up nasty, convention-bo...

Shortly after the Harvard Medical School of China in Shanghai opened its doors in 1911, the author's mother, Nicia Brooks, was hired by Dr. Carl Arthur Hedblom, noted thoracic surgeon. The job changed the course of her life.

Oliver Twister discovers a dragon named Bob living in the Twister garage. Bob has the pleasant smell of cinnamon and nutmeg rather than a swamp or old rubber galoshes, and he needs Oliver to help him do good deeds.

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