Hanlon, Emily

Imagining all the possibilities for disaster that could happen at the zoo almost dissuades two friends from going.

An 11-year-old deaf girl and a 13-year-old boy with family problems seek refuge at a swing which has come to have a special meaning for each of them.

Fifteen-year-old Kenny's involvement with the mentally retarded youth on his block brings out the best and the worst in him.

Using more than forty pairs of homonyms, relates in verse how the bear, deer, horse, bee, hare, gnu, ewe, witch, tern, and "me" set sail to see the sea.