Laiken, Deidre S

Advice for teenagers on how to cope with their angry feelings and the anger of others directed toward them.

A Swiss orphan is heartbroken when she must leave her beloved grandfather and their happy home in the mountains to go to school and to care for an invalid girl in the city.

A horse in nineteenth-century England recounts his experiences with both good and bad masters.

While going through the possessions of a deceased guest who owed them money, the mistress of an inn and her son find a treasure map that leads to a pirate fortune--and great danger.

The adventures and pranks of a mischievous boy growing up in a Mississippi River town in the early nineteenth century.

Recounts the adventures of a young boy and an escaped slave as they travel down the Mississippi River on a raft.

An adaptation of Mark Twain's novel, which chronicles the adventures of a boy and a runaway slave as they float down the Mississippi River on a raft.

An adaptation of Mark Twain's novel, which chronicles the adventures of a mischievous young boy and his friends growing up in a Mississippi River town in the nineteenth century.

An adaptation of L. Frank Baum's story of Dorothy, a girl who must seek out the help of a great wizard after a cyclone transports her from her home in Kansas to the fantastic land of Oz.

Tells the story of a young girl from the Swiss Alps whose life takes a dramatic turn when she must go to live in the city, leaving behind her grandfather and the mountains she loves.