A scarecrow and his boy servant, Jack, set off on a dangerous adventure as they try to outwit the crooked Buffaloni family and stake their claim to valuable Spring Valley.
Siblings
The Broken Bridge
Over the course of a summer in Wales, 16-year-old Ginny, the artist daughter of an English father and a Haitian mother, learns that she has a half-brother from her father’s earlier marriage, and that her own mother may still be alive.
Isa’s Avocado Tree
Isa plants an avocado and enjoys taking care of her little tree until a typhoon comes and blows it down. As life slowly returns to normal after the storm, Isa is comforted by new life all around her–and a new avocado seed.
O Canada
An artist celebrates the beautiful and varied Canadian landscape in these impressionistic descriptions and full-color paintings of Canada’s provinces and territories, from Newfoundland to the Northwest Territories.
City At Night
Celebrates the night worker in the big city, focusing mainly on Toronto, and the active night life that occurs there.
Adeline’s Dream
When Linna, 12, moves from Germany with her mother and brother to Canada where her father has been working, she fears that she will be forced to give up her dream of becoming an opera singer.
Buddha In The Garden
After a small boy is adopted by monks at a Buddhist temple, he spends his time tending the temple gardens and discovering the nature of enlightenment.
Pack Of Wolves
In the forests of Belorussia in 1942 a group of disabled Russian partisans makes its way to a medical unit while being pursued by traitorous partisans, German soldiers, and vicious dogs.
Langley Longears
Teased by his brothers and sisters because his ears are too long, a puppy named Langley is able to rescue them, with help from his new friends Rabbit and a little bird, by using what is between his ears.
China Under Communism
This history of modern China covers the origins, founding, and development of the country’s Communist regime and examines the forces that are pushing the country–nuclear power and the home of a fifth of the world’s population–toward change.