Lasky, Kathryn

Princesses from a number of neighboring kingdoms gather together at summer camp, where the girls of the South Turret attempt to solve an old mystery.

Lucille's brother and sister try to upstage her during her ballet performance on her fourth birthday, but they do not succeed.

Discusses the tall ships which sailed the world before the advent of steam. Describes how they were built, the men who built and sailed them, and life aboard.

When she is excluded from the group dance, a little girl insists to her family that she is going to dance a solo at her school's spring concert--with the entire Air Force in the audience.

Because of the strong influence which her grandfather, an abolitionist, has in her life, fourteen-year-old Lucy assists a fugitive slave girl in her escape.

Faolan, a wolf born with a twisted paw, returns to the pack that left him for dead to prove himself worthy, but just before he takes his place of honor as one of the Wolves of the Watch a wolf goes missing and Faolan discovers that she has been kidnapped by bears.

Abbey spends every summer with her parents and her grandmother on an island, where the leisurely activities include swimming in the ocean, picking blueberries, and finding the constellations.

Describes how babies look, eat, talk, play, sleep, and more.

Following the death of her mother, Mishoo the new shaman, must find a way to help her prehistoric tribe during a drought.

A young boy describes his close relationship with his grandfather.