Very strange occurrences have long surrounded fourteen-year-old Bran, who learns of his link to a curse created by his murdered mother and strives to make things right, hindered by the ban on magic in the city of Dunce and pursued by his mother's former masters.

"As a new threat arises from outside the walls of the City, the warring Truants and Educators must join forces or be destroyed. The fate of the City is determined at last"--

Teenagers from Ethiopia describe the conditions in that country that caused them to leave and their new lives in the United States.

After discovering that he has inherited the ability to transform into a cat, sixth-grader Tommy Bomani learns about his Egyptian warrior bloodline.

Two cavemen, Ogg and Bob, capture a mammoth and then try to train him as a pet.

"The granddaughter of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King delivers a stirring tribute to her grandparents that speaks to children everywhere about her hopes for a new future"--

"The Masked Man possesses a powerful magic potion that turns every book it touches into a portal, and he is recruiting an army of literature's greatest villains! So begins a race through the magical Land of Oz, the fantastical world of Neverland, the madness of Wonderland, and beyond. Can twins Alex and Conner catch up to the Masked Man?"--

Retells, in comic book format, Shakespeare's play about the strange events that take place in a forest inhabited by fairies who magically transform the romantic fate of two young couples.

A collection of poetry and prose by fifty-eight young American Indian writers, ages eleven to twenty-two.