by Betty Ren Wright (1983)
A dollhouse filled with a ghostly light in the middle of the night and dolls that have moved from where she last lef them lead Amy and her retarded sister to unravel the mystery surrounding grisly murders that took place years ago.
Richard Rudnicki
In Nova Scotia during the depression, Dot's family is having a hard time. Her father has work, but her mother is terribly sick, and there is barely enough money to make ends meet, let alone to get a lot of presents this Christmas. Dot sees a beautiful dollhouse that is being raffled away, but her family doesn't even have a dollar to spend there so she can enter the contest.
Holly Black
Zach, Alice, and Poppy, friends from a Pennsylvania middle school who have long enjoyed acting out imaginary adventures with dolls and action figures, embark on a real-life quest to Ohio to bury a doll made from the ashes of a dead girl.
Mark W. Janis & Richard S. Kay
The European Convention on Human Rights -- Strasbourg's legal machinery -- The European Court of Human Rights -- The right to life -- Torture: inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment and slavery -- Freedom of expression -- Freedom of thought, conscience and religion -- Respect for private and family life; marriage -- The right to freedom from discrimination (Article 14) -- Property: Article 1 of Protocol no. 1 -- The right to education -- The right to liberty and security of person -- Right to a fair and public hearing in the determination of civil rights and criminal charges -- The effect in national law of the European Convention on Human Rights.
Anna Myers
In the late 1930s, H.J. Harper is intent on finding a way to help his older sister become a veterinarian and on tracking down a leopard that has escaped from the zoo in Oklahoma City where his father is working on a W.P.A. project.