This book is about a girl who lived just before the Revolutionary War. The story is made up (it's fiction) but it is very lively. There are many other books in this series.
Never trust a wild boar! Boris, Morris, Horace, and Doris, the wild boars, are rude and disgusting. They'll soak in your toilet, clip their toenails in your bed, and make truly awful smells. What if just this one time, they promise to be good? Should you trust them?
Awards won: 2005 BCCB Blue Ribbon Picture Book Award
Bobby Pendragon is a normal 14-year-old boy. Or at least he thinks he is until his beloved Uncle Press wisks him away from his first girlfriend and his championship basketball game into another world. Here, he is expected to lead the fight against the evil St. Dane in order to save the universe. This book is followed by the Lost City of Faar.
Twelve-year-old Anna and her 13-year-old brother Jon become involved in mystery, adventure and dangers as they daringly seek to discover the secret means to undo a mermaid's curse upon their grandfather.
As a young boy, Matty escaped from another place to live in the Village. For the last six years, he has lived peacefully there with the blind Seer. Now changes are coming to the Village, and the nearby Forest is turning hostile. Will Matty be able to make one last trip through the Forest to bring the Seer's daughter Kira to live in the Village before its boundaries close? If you enjoy dystopian fiction and Lois Lowry's other books, The Giver and Gathering Blue, be sure to read this book. These three companion books have themes and characters in common. Lowry's new book, Son, will answer many of the questions raised in the first three books.