Rescued from the outrageous neglect of his aunt and uncle, a young boy with a great destiny proves his worth while attending Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry. "Harry Potter has never been the star of a Quidditch team, scoring points while riding a broom far above the ground. He knows no spells, has never helped to hatch a dragon, and has never worn a cloak of invisibility. All he knows is a miserable life with the Dursleys, his horrible...

The enchanting story of a shipwrecked family --a minister, his wife, and four sons-- who are cast up on a desert island, build a wonderful house in a tree, and survive so cleverly and happily apart from the world that they never want to be rescued.

When Mary Anne suffers from a run of bad luck after throwing away a chain letter, her Baby-sitters Club friends try to help.

Thirteen-year-old Lemony Snicket begins his apprenticeship with S. Theodora Markson of the secretive V.F.D. in the tiny dot of a town called Stain'd By The Sea, where he helps investigate the theft of a statue.

"A fifteen-year-old girl longs for the father she never knew"--Provided by the publisher.

Stacey struggles with her parents because they refuse to believe that she has diabetes; to complicate matters, the Club is threatened when another group of kids set up a babysitting service similar to theirs.

Best friends Mary Anne and Dawn are ecstatic to discover that Dawn's mother and Mary Anne's father are planning to get married.

A fifth grade class, repelled by the overweight new student who has serious home problems, finally learns to accept her.

A boy becomes a phenomenal baseball player one summer when a mysterious stranger resembling Babe Ruth befriends him.

Claudia begins to think she might be adopted when she notices there are hardly any baby pictures of herself in the family photo album and she can't find her birth certificate or birth announcement in the newspaper.