Lasky, Kathryn

After earning the right to return to the wolf pack that abandoned him, the exiled Faolan joins the clan as a lowly "gnaw wolf," but his goal of rising in the pack order is threatened when a jealous rival frames him for an unspeakable crime.

In 1899 on an island off the coast of Maine, fifteen-year-old May learns why she has always felt different from the other girls in her small town, but must keep hidden that she is a mermaid or risk attracting the attention of a dangerous hunter, and losing a boy for whom she cares.

In 1899, a fifteen-year-old orphan named Hannah obtains employment as a servant in the home of one of Boston's wealthiest families, where she meets a noted portrait painter who seems to know things about her that even she is not aware of, and when she accompanies the family to their summer home in Maine, she feels an undeniable pull to the sea.

A story inspired by Edgar Degas's famous 1878 painting "L'?toile," or "Dancer on the Stage," in which Sylvie Bertrand, an ambitious young pupil at the Paris Opera Ballet, struggles to keep herself and her dreams alive when the Franco-Prussian War breaks out.

Princess Gundersnap does not believe in unicorns, but persistent rumors that a herd is headed for Camp Princess, and mysterious messages from the magical tapestry and a local witch, seem to indicate otherwise.

In London with their family, telepathic twelve-year-old twins Liberty and July receive strange emanations from an early residence of Arthur Conan Doyle and discover a literary ghost.

Sore, the owl, is born in the peaceful kingdom of the Forest of Tyto. But evil lurks, and Soren is captured and taken to a dark canyon called an orphanage. Soren believes this orphanage is much worse. He and his friend Gylfie know that they must escape against all odds.

Fifteen-year-old Reuven Bloom, a Russian Jew, in 1897, must set aside his dreams of playing the violin in order to save himself and his baby sister after the rest of their family is murdered.

In 1849, a fourteen-year-old Amish girl defies convention by leaving her secure home in Pennsylvania to accompany her father across the continent by wagon train.

A fictional journal in which eleven-year-old Minnie Swift tells how her family dealt with the difficult times during the Depression and how the arrival of an orphan from Texas changed their lives in Indianapolis just before Christmas 1932.