David Small

"There were just a few signs that Imogene was different. First, there were the antlers growing from her head -- a spectacle that her mother could not bear. Then came the peacock's tail, the long neck, and ... oh dear, what will Mother say to that? Thirty-five years after David Small brought the inimitable Imogene to life, she's back -- with a new set of features that kids everywhere will see for what they really are : the things that make you utterly,...

A graphic novel set in the 1950s that features the coming-of-age story of thirteen-year-old Russell Pruitt whose mother runs off with another man so his father moves them to a small, run-down town in California. There Russell experiences bullying, peer pressure, and sexual curiosity. When his father abandons him, a Chinese couple take him in and try to help Russell as he enters into manhood.

Tongue-tied Ruby Mae Foote fulfills her dream of speaking for world peace at the United Nations when her nephew Billy Bob invents a device to solve her speech problem.

A good-hearted fellow who lives by the sea in a paper house and makes paper boats for the village children comes up against the devil in a life or death situation which can be salvaged only by his skill with paper folding.

Elliot, a very proper young man, feels a kinship with the penguins at the aquarium and wants to take one home with him.

A family living in the Appalachian Mountains in the 1930s gets books to read during the regular visits of the "Book Woman"--a librarian who rides a pack horse through the mountains, lending books to the isolated residents.

A series of letters relating what happens when, after her father loses his job, Lydia Grace goes to live with her Uncle Jim in the city but takes her love for gardening with her.

Marshall refuses to believe that gingerbread men can run, even after a series of clues leads his class on a riddle-filled gingerbread cookie hunt.

Presents some of the characteristics of inventors by describing the inventions of people such as Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison, and Eli Whitney.

Bloom was an extraordinary fairy with wonderful magical skills, but the inhabitants of her glass kingdom could only see the muddy mess she left behind everywhere she went. When Bloom leaves the fussy kingdom she isn't much missed until the glass of the castle begins to crack. And when an ordinary girl named Genevieve comes asking Bloom for help, they realize it will take both of them to save the kingdom.