E. L Konigsburg

Four students, with their own individual stories, develop a special bond and attract the attention of their teacher, a paraplegic, who chooses them to represent their sixth-grade class in the Academic Bowl competition. Mrs. Eva Marie Olinski always gave good answers. Whenever she was asked how she had selected her team for the Academic Bowl, she chose one of several good answers. Most often she said that the four members of her team had skills that...

Amedo moves to a new town with a dream. He wants to discover something and he wants a friend to share his search

While waiting in heaven for divine judgement to be passed on her second husband, Eleanor of Aquitaine and three of the people who knew her well recall the events of her life

Poor Little Rich Boy Winston Carmichael has it all: a big house, servants, vacations in Palm Beach, and a fancy private school. But with overprotective parents and a sense of responsibility for his younger sister, Heidi, Winston sometimes feels more as if he's living in a prison than a dream. Then one day a woman appears at the front door claiming to be Caroline -- Winston's half-sister, who was kidnapped and presumed dead long before he and Heidi...

The spirit of a dead actress turns two children invisible and sends them out among a group of colorful street performers to search for a missing necklace

Two fifth-grade girls, one of whom is the first black child in a middle-income suburb, play at being witches.