"In a reimagined 1987, mankind's ability to remember has deteriorated. To fight memory loss, men and women rely on artificial recall by storing memories on tapes and playing them back. Society's elite, dubbed recollectors, are able to retain "three-quarter memories" on their own-and they make the rules. Seventeen-year-old orphan Freya Latimore doesn't have time for rules. School and responsibilities take a backseat in her life as she tirelessly works...

"Set in a dangerous near future world, The Book of M tells the captivating story of a group of ordinary people caught in an extraordinary catastrophe who risk everything to save the ones they love. It is a sweeping debut that illuminates the power that memories have not only on the heart, but on the world itself. One afternoon at an outdoor market in India, a man's shadow disappears--an occurrence science cannot explain. He is only the first. The...

A letter to Amy : The wind spoils Peter's attempt to mail a special birthday invitation to Amy. May I bring a friend? : An imaginative boy graciously accepts an invitation from the King and Queen, and then invites them to the zoo. A Caldecott Medal winner. The trip : Louie constructs a shoebox diorama and uses his imagination to visit his old neighborhood. Wilfred Gordon McDonald Partridge : In this gentle, moving story of caring and sharing, a...