Yuma Public Library

Three stories about being lost, being found, finding home, and, most importantly, about the dogs that help us find the way.

A collection of eleven short stories focusing on the everyday adventures of Hispanic young people growing up in Fresno, California.

Twelve tales, twelve dangerous tales of mystery, magic, and rebellious hearts. Each twists like a spindle to reveal truths full of warning and triumph, truths that free hearts long kept tame, truths that explore life, and death. A prince has a surprising awakening. A beauty fights like a beast. A boy refuses to become prey. A path to happiness is lost, then found again. Author Soman Chainani respins old stories into fresh fairy tales for a new era...

Five short stories in which young people gain a sense of self.

An account of how the author came to be a writer and selections from his writer's notebook augment stories juxtaposing fantasy and truth, and peopled with outrageous and courageous characters.

When seven little mice are tucked in bed, they ask their papa to tell them a story. Papa does better than that -- he tells them seven stories, one mouse tale for each of them. But can the little mice stay awake long enought to hear them all?

Everyone in Horrid Henry's class has lost a tooth except him. And when Perfect Peter loses one too, Henry can't believe it. There's only one thing for it - he'll have to trick the tooth fairy.

The classic tales of Peter Rabbit, Squirrel Nutkin, Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle, the Tailor of Gloucester, Jeremy Fisher, Benjamin Bunny, Miss Moppet, and the Two Bad Mice, plus Appley Dapply's Nursery Rhymes, with new illustrations

Contains three stories in which a boy's plans for a rocket, a bus driver, and an old hamster go wrong.

Presents eight tales about dragons, both dangerous and freindly, in a variety of times, places, and situations.