One child who wants to make a difference joins with another and, through a series of simple actions and others' help, succeeds in making the world a better place. Includes a mindfulness exercise and notes about the importance of taking one first step.

Avi charts the turning points in seven young lives in this extraordinary collection of short stories. In the overlapping years when childhood and adolescence blend and shift like waves and sand, nothing is certain and everything is changing. Now award-winning author Avi creates seven astonishing portraits of life in the middle-school years. In these stories you will meet, among others, William, of "What Do Fish Have to Do with Anything?" who wonders...

Destructosaurus lays waste to a city, but he really is just looking for his teddy bear.

After viewing a scary movie about the Spacegrizzlies, Brother Bear has a nightmare.

An outcast in a school full of jocks, sixteen-year-old Bret struggles to keep his individuality through his interest in drama and music, while trying to reconnect with his father.

The Bear family decides it is time to move to a larger house.

Penny comes home from school eager to share her very own song, but must wait until the time is right to teach it to her parents and the babies.

Child loves her mother and everything they do together.

After he finds a brand new shiny penny, Theodore has a perfect day in Kindergarten.

For years, Miranda has stared at postcards of August Isle, Florida, where her mother spent her summers as a girl. When she arrives on the Isle to stay the summer with an old friend of her mother's, Miranda discovers a place even more perfect than she imagined. But there is more to August Isle than its bright streets and sandy beaches, and soon Miranda is tangled in a web of mysteries. A haunted lighthouse. An old seafarer with something to hide. A...