Sometimes I think I hear my name

By Avi

Thirteen-year-old Conrad, who lives with his aunt and uncle in St. Louis, decides to pay a surprise visit to his divorced parents in New York and comes face to face with bitter reality. Only the fr...

Who Was That Masked Man Anyway

By Avi

Romeo and Juliet Together

By Avi

;Avi's work spans nearly every genre and has received nearly every major prize, including the Newbery Medal for CRISPIN: THE CROSS OF LEAD and Newbery Honors for NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH and THE...

Something Upstairs: a tale of ghosts

By Avi

When he moves from Los Angeles to Providence, Rhode Island, Kenny discovers that his new house is haunted by the spirit of a black slave boy who asks Kenny to return with him to the early nineteent...

The man who was Poe

By Avi

In Providence, R.I., in 1848, Edgar Allan Poe reluctantly investigates the problems of eleven-year-old Edmund, whose family has mysteriously disappeared and whose story suggests a new Poe tale with...

The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle

By Avi

Nothing but the truth

By Avi

A ninth-grader's suspension for singing "The Star-Spangled Banner" during homeroom becomes a national news story.

Barn

By Avi

Romeo and Juliet--together (and alive!) at last

By Avi

The eighth grade's plan to get two reluctant "lovers" together by means of a classroom production of Shakespeare's play has some very unexpected results.

Something upstairs

By Avi

When he moves from Los Angeles to Providence, Rhode Island, Kenny discovers that his new house is haunted by the spirit of a black slave boy who asks Kenny to return with him to the early nineteent...