Eleven-year-old asthmatic Reuben Land chronicles the Land family's odyssey in search of Reuben's older brother, Davy, who has escaped from jail before he can stand trial for the killing of two marauders who came to their Minnesota farm to harm the family. A first novel. Reprint.

Set in the rough wilderness of early frontier Texas, Old Yeller is the tale of a boy left in chage of his family's farm, and the big yellow dog who helps him with his many responsibilities.

One day Trey Laporte wakes up in agony, with his clothes torn and his room trashed. Now, demons are closing in on him, and he is falling for a girl who is half vampire and half human. But above all, Trey must face one question: is he a boy, or is he a werewolf?

The teenage son of an Appalachian single mother who dies when he is eleven uses his good looks, wit, and instincts to survive foster care, child labor, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses. Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, this is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father's good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival....

Rudyard Kipling's epic rendition of the imperial experience in India is also his greatest long work. Born in India and growing into early manhood, Kim is the son of an Irish soldier born under British Imperial rule in 19th century India. Left in the care of a half-caste woman, Kim is free to explore the back allies and bazaars of Lahore. But when he meets with his father's old regiment he trades his native clothes for European suits and abandons his...

Public defender Lindy Field puts her faith to the test and risks her reputation-and her life-when she defends a young man accused of a series of grisly murders. After all-he may just be innocent.

Logan and his friend Benedict are playing tag in the library when a mysterious man "punishes" him by making him speak only in puns.

Nathan Bailey, left in the care of a drunken, abusive uncle, ends up in a juvenile detention center where he kills a guard in self-defense and begins a life on the run, gaining the help and sympathy of a radio talk-show host and a veteran policeman.

When unrest hits the streets of Havana, Cuba, Julian's parents must make the heartbreaking decision to send him and his two brothers away to Miami via the Pedro Pan operation. But when the boys get to Miami, they are thrust into a world where bullies seem to run rampant and it's not always clear how best to protect themselves.

When his son's mother dies and leaves him a single parent to Dean, a fourteen-year-old boy he has never met, Evan Wallace is forced to confront his music career and his epilepsy.