by Thera S. Callahan (2003)
When a brother and sister run out of tape while tryng to wrap their dad's birthday present, they use various other sticky substances to make the paper stick.
Gabrielle Williams
When superstitious eighteen-year-old John "Beatle" Lennon, who is dating the best friend of his twin sister, meets Destiny McCartney, their instant rapport and shared quirkiness make it seem that their fate is written in the stars.
Astrid Lindgren
Jonas, Maria, and Lotta, the rambunctious and unpredictable Nyman children, have a year of roughhouse adventures and prove that, while they are around, anything can happen.
Alison Smith
Twelve-year-old Henry takes charge of the family for two weeks to allow his mother uninterrupted time to work on an art portfolio.
Jonathan Safran Foer
A young man arrives in the Ukraine, clutching in his hand a tattered photograph. He is searching for the woman who fifty years ago saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Unfortunately, however, he is aided in his quest by Alex, a translator with an uncanny ability to mangle English into new forms; a 'blind' old man haunted by memories of the war; and an undersexed guide dog named Sammy Davis, Jr, Jr. What they are looking for seems elusive - a truth hidden behind veils of time, language and the horrors of war. What they find turns all their worlds upside down..