Ernie Banks, named for the legendary Chicago Cubs shortstop, is a troubled, thirteen-year-old juvenile delinquent. Abandoned on the doorstep of the Lakeside Home for Boys when he was three years old, his only proof that he once belonged to somebody is a vintage Ernie Banks baseball card, a crystal acorn he wears on a string around his neck, and a strange spiral birthmark on the bottom of his right foot. As a last reprieve before being sent to a juvenile...

A housekeeper's daughter returns to the wealthy family she grew up with, falls in love again with the family heir, and learns the family's dark secrets.

Sixteen-year-old Jean "Jinx" Honeychurch, the descendant of a witch, must leave Iowa to live with relatives in Manhattan after the first spell she casts goes awry, but she will have to improve her skills to stop her cousin from practicing black magic that endangers them and the boy they both like.

In ancient Egypt, a priest and his family must flee for their lives when the son accidentally kills a sacred cat.

"A feminist landmark, 'The golden notebook' tells the story of writer Anna Wulf and the crises she faces in her personal, political and professional life. Confounded by writer's block, the ferociously independent Wulf explores her situation in four notebooks, one for each of the strands in her life. The golden notebook is the one in which, struggling to retain her sanity, she brings these strands together."--Container.

It's Halloween, you 'fraidy mouse: Already afraid of Halloween, Geronimo is not happy when his nephew Benjamin drags him to a graveyard and he meets the spooky mouse Creepella von Cacklefur Merry Christmas, Geronimo!: Geronimo is looking forward to Christmas until various disasters threaten to ruin the holiday

Jake's distant past was a life on the streets, inflicting damage and suffering on more people than he can count. And now someone from his past, it seems, has come looking for him. When two men attack Jake in a parking lot and cut off his finger, he tries to dismiss it as an unlucky case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. But when events take a more sinister turn and his wife goes missing, Jake knows he can no longer hide from the truth....