From Barbara Kingsolver, the acclaimed author of Flight Behavior, The Lacuna, The Bean Trees, and other modern classics, Animal Dreams is a passionate and complex novel about love, forgiveness, and one woman's struggle to find her place in the world. At the end of her rope, Codi Noline returns to her Arizona home to face her ailing father, with whom she has a difficult, distant relationship. There she meets handsome Apache trainman Loyd Peregrina,...

When thirteen-year-old Koly enters into an ill-fated arranged marriage, she must either suffer a destiny dictated by India's tradition or find the courage to oppose it.

Invites the reader to join the adoring fans who watch a preschooler perform such daring stunts as eating broccoli, dressing himself, and going to bed without checking for monsters.

From bestselling author Katherine Lasky comes the first book in WOLVES OF THE BEYOND, a stunning new spinoff from her legendary owl series, Guardians of Ga'hoole.A wolf mother has given birth, but the warm bundle snuffling next to her brings only anguish. The pup, otherwise healthy, has a twisted leg, and the mother knows what the harsh code of the pack demands. Her pup will be taken from her and abandoned on a desolate hill. The pack cannot have...

"Kaia is the brave type. Like hottest-hot-pepper brave. But there is one thing that scares her: BEES! And right now, thousands of bees live on her roof because Kaia's dad is a beekeeper. But only he goes on the roof, not Kaia--unless she can find a way to be the brave girl she always says she is."--

A cat finds the courage to climb again after a frightening fall from his owner's apartment balcony.

The faction-based society that Tris Prior once believed in is shattered-- fractured by violence and power struggles, and scarred by loss and betrayal. When offered a chance to explore the world past the limits she's known, Tris is ready. But, will she be prepared to face impossible choices about courage, allegiance, sacrifice and love?

Pat the bat wants to be a superhero, but the trouble is he has no special powers, and the other bats just laugh at him--but when he hears a mouse in distress, he learns that sometimes you just have to use the abilities you already have to make a difference, and that makes you a superhero.

After accidentally killing a dragon, Wiglaf hopes his friends at Dragon Slayers' Academy will be able to help him prove himself a hero when he faces that dragon's mother, Seetha, the Beast of the East.