Frances finds it difficult to go to sleep with the strange noises and menacing shapes that seem to fill her room after dark.

When Thelma tricks Frances into buying her tea set, Frances gets mad! Can Frances show Thelma that it's better to lose a bargain than to lose a friend?

Jealous of her sister's birthday, Frances becomes mean and selfish, until rare generosity and birthday spirit move her to reluctantly give her coveted gift.

When things change around the house after her baby sister is born, Frances decides to run away--but not too far.

Riddley Walker is a brilliant, unique, completely realized work of fiction. One reads it again and again, discovering new wonders every time through. Set in a remote future in a post-nuclear holocaust England (Inland), Hoban has imagined a humanity regressed to an iron-age, semi-literate state, and invented a language to represent it. Riddley is at once the Huck Finn and the Stephen Dedalus of his culture: rebel, change agent, and artist. Read this...

A little girl dreams of ways to help her parents pay their bills, and a magic horse named "Stickerino" comes to the rescue!

A crocodile family tries to conserve energy at home.

Sister Brute has no one to love until she makes a stone doll and finds an ugly dog.