Presents an adaptation of the classic novel which follows the adventures and pranks of a mischievous, good-natured, boy growing up in a Mississippi River town in the early nineteenth century. Includes review questions.

"The Mulligans are used to adversity. But now someone wants to hurt something they love: the Mulligan Wild Animal Park. For a mini human, Stephie can be pretty tough. 'We don't believe in curses,' she says to Madame Claire. 'We have God to protect us.' Good words, but it's not long before the Mulligan kids begin to wonder if there is something real to the fortune teller's prediction of a curse. Strange things are happening at the animal park. Ghostly...

"In a fantasy world of anthropomorphic rabbits, Podkin and his siblings must go on the run when the villainous Gorm invade their home and enslave their clan. Facing pursuit and treachery at every turn, they must find allies and refuge if they are to survive-and fight to reclaim their world from the Gorm scourge"--

"Three new girls share an incredible secret -- they can transform into powerful Sea Dragons when they travel to the Magic Forest! They must work together to banish the evil Fire Queen, once and for all. Sofia the Lagoon Dragon must find the missing narwhal leader before it's too late. Otherwise the Magic Kingdom's seas will disappear forever!"--

Three young actors shooting a movie in the snow-covered Carpathian Mountains are separated from base camp by a terrible blizzard and come face-to-face with a pack of hungry wolves.

Seventh-grader Charley Decker's mother is on vacation with her boyfriend, and Charley plans to spend the weekend watching movies with her best friends Wade and Oona and her older brother, Greg; but Greg has a date and takes their mother's boyfriend's expensive, rare automobile, than manages to get it towed; Charley and her friends hatch a plan to get the car back--but things go seriously wrong when they discover somebody called Mitch hiding from a...

"In January of 1848, the discovery of gold at Sutters Mill in California sparked a nationwide frenzy, fueling the dreams of Americans from coast to coast. By 1849, hundreds of thousands of fortune hunters from across the globe headed west to stake their claim. Armed with pan or pickaxe, driven by greed or glory, every last one of them was determined to strike it rich—or die trying. . . . For Cord Bennett, it was more than a dream. California was...

"Set in a not-too-distant America, I Cheerfully Refuse is the tale of a bereaved and pursued musician embarking under sail on a sentient Lake Superior in search of his departed, deeply beloved, bookselling wife. Rainy, an endearing bear of an Orphean narrator, seeks refuge in the harbors, fogs and remote islands of the inland sea. Encountering lunatic storms and rising corpses from the warming depths, Rainy finds on land an increasingly desperate...