When supremely organized seventh-grader, Molly McGinty, loses the notebook she relies on to keep her life in order she spends the day in chaos.

When someone uses futuristic technology to play pranks on twelve-year-old Dorso Clayman, he and his best friend set off on a supposedly impossible journey through space and time trying to stop the gamesters who are endangering the universe.

Traces the life of U.S. Marshal Bass Reeves. Details how he learned to hunt and care for himself after running from the law and hiding out in Indian territory. Discusses the myths about heroes Wyatt Earp, Billy the Kid, and Wild Bill Hickock. Explains how Bass became a marshal who brought in hundreds of criminals without drawing his gun first.

Minnesota author and dog musher Gary Paulsen reflects on the growth of his sled dogs as he and his animals discover the world around them.

As twelve-year-old Duane endures the confusing and humiliating aspects of puberty, he watches a newborn bird in a nest on his windowsill begin to grow and become more independent, all of which he records in his journal.

When his camp van crashes into a raging river, Daniel has to decide whether to help the bullies who call him dork breath and retard and risk everything, or to save himself.

Bobbie always spends her summers breaking horses and rounding up stray cattle on Grandpa's ranch. But this year is different. Alex, her cousin from Los Angeles, is visiting. And Bobbie doesn't want to ruin her summer teaching a "city greenhorn" what to do. While saddling up their horses to search for cattle, the two girls start a vicious feud. But when they run into the horrible Bledsoe boys and a wild bull, they must depend on each other to survive!...

The story of Bass Reeves who was born a slave and later became one of the most respected federal marshals in Oklahoma and Texas.

With his truned-up nose and pointy ears, Warren Trumbull is an oddball, even in a world of warlocks and eight foot cyclops. He always gets the worst assignments working for Prince Charming's Damsel in Distress Rescue Agency; assignments like this one, exterminating a Gorgon.

Eager to enlist, fifteen-year-old Charley has a change of heart after experiencing both the physical horrors and mental anguish of Civil War combat.