For four long months, ten-year-old Cass has been dreaming of the day, her mom, Toodi, will come home. But when Toodi's welcome-back party takes a turn for the disastrous, Cass finds herself stuck a…
To get away from his violent, drunken father, Huckleberry Finn fakes his own death and lives wild in the woods. He soon meets Jim, a runaway slave, and the two outcasts set off on a dangerous journ…
Set in the wild landscape of the mighty Mississippi River, Mark Twain's classic first novel has been rivetingly retold for today's readers. It remains as fresh and exciting as when it was first wri…
This tome of staggering genius is scribed by me, the Dark Lord, a.k.a. Dirk Lloyd. My archenemy has cast me into your world in the body of a teenager. oh, the indignity! Brutal revenge will be mine…
It is I, the Great Dirk, destroyer of worlds and most gifted writer ever! My loyal servant Sooz, child of the night, is trapped in the Darklands. The horror! It is vital that I return there before …
The story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens Charles Dickens and Nelly Ternan met in 1857. She was eighteen, a hard-working actress performing in his production of the Frozen Deep; he was forty…