After fleeing the Oklahoma Dust Bowl, the Joad family finds the conditions in California are almost as bad, as people fight for jobs and their own day-to-day survival.

Tacky the penguin and his friends go to Camp Whoopihaha where they scare each other by telling ghost stories around the campfire, never expecting that one of the frightening stories will come true.

"School's out for summer! A.J. can't wait to spend his days playing video games, watching TV, and forgetting everything he learned during the school year. But when his parents announce they've signed him up for sleepaway camp, his great plans slip away right before his eyes. Now he's stuck at Camp Ahdoanwanna with his friends. Between the mosquitoes and bees, animals that break into the cabins, and a moose head that guards the mail, this is definitely...

"The Greek and Roman demigods will have to cooperate in order to defeat the giants released by the Earth Mother, Gaea. Then they will have to sail together to the ancient land--Greece itself--to find the Doors of Death"--

In this poem based on "The Night Before Christmas," Rick has the jitters over starting summer day camp, but when he discovers that his counselor is also nervous because she is starting her first job, he feels a lot better.

Froggy goes to a sleep-away camp, where all of his fun seems to cause trouble for the camp's director.

"London, 1953. Louise is still adjusting to her postwar role as a housewife when she discovers a necklace in a box at a secondhand shop. The box is marked with the name of a department store in Paris, and she is certain she has seen the necklace before, when she worked with the Red Cross in Nazi-occupied Europe--and that it holds the key to the mysterious death of her friend Franny during the war. Following the trail of clues to Paris, Louise seeks...

Publisher Annotation: Based on the experience of real-life Auschwitz prisoner Dita Kraus, this is the incredible story of a girl who risked her life to keep the magic of books alive during the Holocaust. Fourteen-year-old Dita is one of the many imprisoned by the Nazis at Auschwitz. Taken, along with her mother and father, from the Terezín ghetto in Prague, Dita is adjusting to the constant terror that is life in the camp. When Jewish leader Freddy...