Scout Finch, the young daughter of a local attorney in the Deep South during the 1930s, tells of her father's defense of an African-American man charged with the rape of a white girl.
After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the wilderness, learning to survive initially with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to cope with his parents' divorce.
Sir William Golding reads his novel about a group of British school boys, stranded on a tropical island after a plane crash, who attempt to form a civilized society that descends into brutal anarchy.
A performance of the classic Greek tragedy in which Antigone risks her life defying a royal decree in order to give her brother, who was killed while leading a rebellion, a proper burial.
Bored and lonely after his family moves from Berlin to a place called "Out-With" in 1942, Bruno, the son of a Nazi officer, befriends a boy in striped pajamas who lives behind a wire fence.
Describes the parts of a plant, how plants grow, and several kinds of plants, as well as threats to plants and the relationship between plants and people.
When Cam Jansen and her friend Eric go the music store at the mall for the latest CD by the Triceratops Pops band, Cam uses her photographic memory to foil a crime.
Druid Aphenglow Elessedil--living in a world in which elves have distanced themselves from other races, a sinister politician is the head of the Federation, and the Druid order is threatened with extinction--learns the truth about the vanished Elfstones, becomes the target of assassins, and joins an expedition to locate the missing stones.
Afraid that she is crazy, thirteen-year-old Mia, who sees a special color with every letter, number, and sound, keeps this a secret until she becomes overwhelmed by school, changing relationships, and the death of her beloved cat, Mango.
