After spending her life with her mentally retarded mother and agoraphobic neighbor, twelve-year-old Heidi sets out from Reno, Nevada, to New York to find out who she is. Living with her mentally disabled mother who only knows just over twenty words, young Heidi has learned to live in her special world until a new word is suddenly used and repeated by her mother; causing Heidi to think it might be a key to a secret past about which she knows so little...

Verbena Colter knows she's bad news.

Trouble from the get-go. How could she not be, with parents like hers? Her mother practically pickled her before she was even born, leaving Verbie to struggle with the effects of fetal alcohol syndrome. And her father was just plain mean. Verbie wishes she could be somebody, anybody other than who she is. Enter Pooch, a flatlander boy visiting for the summer. When Pooch and his mom rent the house next

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When Sam the lamb has trouble sneezing, the other animals try to help.

Animal children find surprises of all kinds in their parents' pockets, the biggest being a new baby in a kangaroo's pocket.

Different animals ask to join a fish in a tub until the tub is full

After the death of Polly Portman, whose award-winning pies put the town of Ipswitch, Pennsylvania, on the map in the 1950s, her devoted niece Alice and Alice's friend Charlie investigate who is going to extremes to find Aunt Polly's secret pie crust recipe. Includes fourteen pie recipes.--

Pip Squeak the mouse works hard to clean the house for his friend Max's visit, but then he has to clean up after Max too

Two cats that are as different as night and day are nevertheless best friends

From morning to night, a young child playfully grabs and throws items, including a bathtime rubber ducky and snacktime raisins

Mrs. McNosh hangs up her wash with such gusto that her clothesline ends up holding the dog, a Christmas wreath, a kite, and other odd items