by Ellen Stoll Walsh (2005)
When two hamsters find a feather on the beach, they set out to find the seagull that lost it, meeting new friends and overcoming obstacles as they go.
W.G. Van de Hulst
Jimmy and Joe, unaware that their little sister Rosie is sick, tie a string to her teddy bear and dangle it over the creek, but when the string breaks the rowdy boys try to rescue Bruno before Rosie or their parents find out what they did.
Robert Hendrickson
Author Robert Hendrickson traces the sometimes bizarre, always fascinating origins and development of more than 9,000 words and phrases from A to Zzz, including slang, proverbs, animal and plant names, place-names, nicknames, historical expressions, foreign-language expressions, and phrases from literature. This greatly expanded and revised version of the critically acclaimed 1987 original contains more than 2,000 new entries. Comprehensive, authoritative, and eminently readable, The Facts On File Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins will delight the logophile and serve as an invaluable reference tool for all students of language and literature.
Marjorie Lewty
"He gets under your skin," Averil's sister Sara had said of William Randall, and Averil's reply had been, "Well, he won't get under mine!" Yet she was to find this disturbingly attractive man was in her thoughts all too often as her visit to Cornwall continued. How did William feel?
Sarah Fletcher
Explains the need for and purpose of good manners and the benefits that can be derived from showing consideration for others.