Emily Ralston is thrilled when she lands a job in the Children's Building at the Chicago World's Fair. and the White City seems to be living up to its promise of excitement when she meets a handsome Columbian guardsman. Surely Emily's not the only one to sense the spark of electricity between them? When Stephen Bridger finds a lost child, he delivers the boy to the Children's Building to be cared for until his mother is located. But when a dead body...

The Alden children visit a family friend at his apple orchard which is rumored to be haunted, but instead of a ghost they find that some of the family's valuable antiques are being stolen.

Ten years after surviving the tornado that killed his parents, Vane Weston, now seventeen, has no memory of that fateful day but dreams of a beautiful girl who, he now learns, is not only real, she is his guardian sylph, who harnesses the power of the wind.

For fans of Before We Were Yours and Where the Crawdads Sing, a gripping, poignant tale swathed in both mythical and mystical overtones (Bob Drury, New York Times bestselling author) that follows four orphans on a life-changing odyssey during the Great Depression, from the New York Times bestselling author of Ordinary Grace. 1932, Minnesota--the Lincoln School is a pitiless place where hundreds of Native American children, forcibly separated from...

Reprint of a 1978 novel of adventure and romance in the Himalayas.

Left on the doorstep of the Sisters of Mercy Orphanage, Moe, Larry and Curly grow up finger-poking, face-slapping and head-clunking their way into adulthood. Now, years later, the bumbling trio find themselves on a madcap mission to save the orphanage from foreclosure.

In the perilous Mortmain Mountains, Klaus and Violet Baudelaire meet another well-read person, who helps them try to rescue Sunny from the villainous Count Olaf and his henchmen as they all near "the last safe place."

It tells the imaginative story of a young girl and the Giant who introduces her to the wonders and perils of Giant Country. The BFG, while a giant himself, is a Big Friendly Giant and nothing like the other inhabitants of Giant Country. Standing 24-feet tall with enormous ears and a keen sense of smell, he is endearingly dim-witted and keeps to himself for the most part.

The Alden children save an old woman's house, land, and all the animals in her animal shelter from greedy contractors.

"Angélique Latham has grown up at magnificent Belgrave Castle under the loving tutelage of her father, the Duke of Westerfield, after the death of her aristocratic French mother. But when he dies, her half-brothers brutally turn her out, denying her very existence. Angélique has a keen mind, remarkable beauty, and an envelope of money her father pressed upon her. To survive, she will need all her resources--and one bold stroke of fortune. Unable...