After the sudden death of their parents, the three Baudelaire children must depend on each other and their wits when it turns out that the distant relative who is appointed their guardian is determined to use any means necessary to get their fortune.

Entwining history and fiction, the past and the present, The Muralist plunges readers into prewar politics and the plight of European refugees refused entrance to the United States, capturing both the beginnings of the school of Abstract Expressionism and the inner workings of today's New York art scene.

Fireheart, a full-fledged warrior cat, must confront questions of loyalty and identity as he faces the possibility of betrayal from within his own forest clan. Fireheart is a ThunderClan warrior cat now, but danger still lurks in the forest -- and possibly closer than he thinks. With the chill of winter setting in, the cats of rival RiverClan are growing restless, while WindClan is weak and facing threats from all sides. As tensions build to an explosive...

Owen Brown, a fourth grader, watches his best friend Dana disappear through the floor of the school, and he sets out with Jon and Sydney to find her.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tracy Kidder returns with the extraordinary true story of Deo, a young man who arrives in America from Burundi in search of a new life. After surviving a civil war and genocide, he ekes out a precarious existence delivering groceries, living in Central Park, and learning English by reading dictionaries in bookstores until he begins to meet the strangers who will change his life, pointing him eventually in the direction...

Tells the story of eight young people who, inspired by workshops on nonviolence, decided to become involved in the fight against segregation during the 1960s, beginning with staged sit-ins at Nashville lunch counters, and progressing to ever more dangerous actions on behalf of the civil rights movements.

A tale that brings the Ranger's Apprentice series full circle finds an adult Will struggling with the loss of his wife and reluctantly mentoring the daughter of Horace and Evanlyn so she can assume leadership over the floundering Rangers.

When the citizens of Superopolis begin to mysteriously lose their superpowers, Ordinary Boy and his friends investigate the world of master villains.

It is June 6, 1944, D-Day, and Dee Carpenter (true name Dietrich Zimmermann), an underage private in the United States Army, is headed for Omaha Beach, seeking revenge for his uncle, who was arrested by Nazis when Dee was a little boy; meanwhile, Samira Zidano, an eleven-year old French-Algerian girl is looking for the French resistance, desperate to deliver the message that the invasion is about to begin, and get their help in freeing her mother--this...

When Cass Levin, an orphaned eighth-grader at Elston Prep in New York City, begins a frienship with Rod Punkin, her world begins to change.