Laurie Klein

When Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert decide to adopt an orphan boy to help them tend their farm on Canada's Prince Edward Island, they are shocked when and eleven-year old girl is sent to them instead, the spirited and fanciful Anne Shirley. Despite their initial disappointment, the Cuthberts are quickly won over by her charm, spunk, and wit. Anne adapts to her new family and finds a place for herself on the island - befriending neighbors, attending...

Anne is finally off to Redmond College! While she's sad to be leaving Marilla and the twins, she's excited to finally become a full-fledged BA, and to embark on new adventures with the other Avonlea folks attending Redmond, a group that includes her friend Gilbert Blythe. At Redmond Anne meets Philippa Gordon, a frivolous but charming girl who pulls Anne into the center of the Redmond social scene. As Anne becomes the object of several boys' affection,...

While Little Skink hunts for breakfast, she is attacked by a crow. To escape, she snaps off her tail. Little Skink's tail follows her as she daydreams of having the tails of other animals in the forest. Includes "For Creative Minds" section with information on tail adaptations and communications and a mix-and-match tail activity.

While investigating reports of a ghost at Donley Farm, Rebecca the red-tailed hawk discovers that the ghost is actually a barn owl named Bernard. The two birds befriend one another and discuss their commonalities and differences. Back matter contains additional information on diurnal and nocturnal animals raptor diets, and raptor adaptations.

"How do some young animals know what to do and how to do it? Does someone teach a caterpillar what to eat? Who gives a baby shark swimming lessons? Sometimes young animals learn things from their parents, but other times ... they just know! Explore animal instincts through engaging text and fanciful illustrations."--

A story of a young girl who dreams that howling winds whisk fur and feathers right off her animals friends. Trying to help, she sews each of them a new "coat."

Jeanne Williams is a master of the historical novel and nowhere more so than in this epic story of the Kansas Territory in the late 1850s. Jonathan and Ellen Ware have immigrated to the area from their farm in Illinois with thirteen-year-old Christy Ware and her two older brothers. The Wares are only one of the families that will soon be caught up in the burning issue of slavery with raids from the Border Ruffians out of Missouri and John Brown's

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While visiting her grandmother during the summer of 1944, a fourteen-year-old girl helps to heal the wounds that have been inflicted upon three generations of women.

Alena is a confident entrepreneur in a man's world who meets a rancher with a tragic secret in his past. They're both about to find their inner peace, their calling, and romance in Old California.