The adventures and pranks of a mischievous boy growing up in a Mississippi River town in the early nineteeenth century.

Five-year-old Jack has spent his life living in an eleven-by-eleven foot space his mother calls Room and while Jack uses his imagination to create wondrous fantasies to entertain himself, his mother dreads the day her son begins to question why they must remain in Room and tries to find a way to escape.

Pi Patel is an unusual boy. The son of a zookeeper, he has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior, a fervent love of stories, and practices not only his native Hinduism, but also Christianity and Islam. When Pi is sixteen, his family emigrates from India to North America aboard a Japanese cargo ship, along with their zoo animals bound for new homes. The ship sinks. Pi finds himself alone in a lifeboat, his only companions a hyena, an orangutan,...

Braid Beard and his pirate crew return to retrieve the treasure they buried in Jeremy Jacob's backyard, but first they must help calm his baby sister, Bonney Anne, whom they awoke from her nap.

A Grammy nominee. Fourteen-year-old Gary, a self-described tree toad lover of a perfect lawn, the soft-porn masterpiece Carnal Cuties, his Underwood typewriter, and, above all, his rebellious cousin Katelives through one amazing Lake Wobegon summer. Gary preoccupies himself by spinning fantastic yarns about boogers, talking dogs, conversations between God and Jesus, and especially melodramas featuring himself as hero and Kate as distressed damsel.When...

A magic ring changes a teenage boy into a sheepdog--whose owner is the leader of a group trying to destroy to space program.

Kevin's mother struggles to love her strange child, despite the increasingly vicious things he says and does as he grows up. But Kevin is just getting started, and his final act will be beyond anything anyone imagined.

Michael, an enforcer for a New York organized crime family who fled the Iron Mountain Home for Boys after taking the blame for the murder of another orphan, falls in love with Elena and wishes he can start a new life and build a family with her, but the past and brother he left behind, as well as the vengeful son of the mob boss for whom he works, threaten his chance at happiness and he must confront them in order to have a future with Elena.

After the death of his parents, Collin Fenwick goes to live with his father's cousins, Verena and Dolly Talbo. Verena rules the with a stern hand, while her older sister Dolly charms Collin with her gentle, romantic spirit. Together with the maid Catherine, they escape Verena's oppression by running away to an old tree house in the woods. However, their adventure sets off a series of events that will change the lives and futures of the entire town....

Supremely confident middle school student Nate Wright manages to make getting detention from every one of his teachers in the same day seem like an achievement.