Twelve-year-old Lizzy Sherman believes there are signs everywhere that can help her keep her family safe, so when she begins helping a runaway girl her own age--a stranger to their small town in Maine--Lizzy hopes that she, too, can protect Lizzy's family.

"Mark Twain's classic The Adventures of Tom Sawyer has been enjoyed by generations of readers across the world since its publication in 1876. With its humorous glimpses into life in nineteenth-century, small-town America, this novel has provided unique social commentary that continues to be discussed in classrooms today. Tom Sawyer, a mischievous boy growing up in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, Missouri, is constantly getting in and out of...

Seventeen-year-old Anna finds herself on the run from her father's enigmatic Agency, along with the four teen boys the Agency had been experimenting on, as they try to make sense of erased memories, secret identities, and genetic alteration.

Running away after the random stabbing of her mother, a junior high school girl encounters a wounded coyote pup and nurses him in an abandoned root cellar in the Wisconsin woods.

A simplified, abridged version of the adventures and pranks of a mischievous boy growing up in a Mississippi River town in the early nineteenth century, accompanied by a short biography of Mark Twain, information about the abridgement, critical thinking questions, and other resources.

Fourteen-year-old Cody trades one dangerous situation for another when he runs away from his abusive mother and takes a job caring for lions and tigers on a Texas ranch where one of the owners has supposedly gone missing.

Struggling with painful memories of her parents' fatal car accident and abuse at the hands of her violent twin brother, orphan Leia hides in the elephant habitat at the zoo.

The Alden children have an adventure as they journey along with the Little North Railroad in two cabooses rented for the summer by their grandfather.

The children are spending the summer on their own private island but there is a mysterious stranger on the island.

Grandpa Alden's sister, Jane, is not feeling very well, and it's the Alden girls who go to care for her. Soon a mystery begins to unfold and the clues are everywhere; from the stranger on the train, to the beautiful yellow rocks on Aunt Jane's ranch. When Henry and Benny come out to join the girls, the four children find themselves unravelling the intriguing mystery.