Thirteen-year-old Ratchet spends a summer in Maine with her eccentric great-aunts Tilly and Penpen, hearing strange stories from the past and encountering a variety of unusual and colorful characters.
A high school freshman discovers the devastating consequences of refusing to join in the school's annual fund raising drive and arousing the wrath of the school bullies.
Contains a collection of twelve of John Steinbeck's short stories that take place in the Salinas Valley of California and reflect tensions between town and country, laborers and owners, and past and present, and includes the story "The Red Pony.".
Worried that his good friend Jennifer is becoming too involved with dropout Rick Andover, high school sports reporter John Pfeifer faces a dilemma when he becomes responsible for Rick's arrest and Jennifer blames her father.
Ten-year-old Keladry of Mindalen, daughter of nobles, serves as a page but must prove herself to the males around her if she is ever to fulfill her dream of becoming a knight.
