Nothing But The Truth

By Avi

Chronicling the results of a teacher's objections to a 9th grader's humming along with the Star Spangled Banner, it forces the reader to explore issues of perception, reality, bias, and expediency....

Blue heron

By Avi

While spending the month of August on the Massachusetts shore with her father, stepmother, and their new baby, almost thirteen-year-old Maggie finds beauty in and draws strength from a great blue h...

Who was that masked man anyway

By Avi

In the early forties when nearly everyone else is thinking about World War II, sixth-grader Frankie Wattleson gets in trouble at home and at school because of his preoccupation with his favorite ra...

Sometimes I Think I Hear My Name

By Avi

The barn

By Avi

In an effort to fulfill their dying father's last request, nine-year-old Ben and his brother and sister construct a barn on their land in the Oregon Territory.

Poppy

By Avi

At the very edge of Dimwood Forest stood an old charred oak where, silhouetted by the moon, a great horned owl sat waiting. The owl's name was Mr. Ocax, and he looked like death himself. With his p...

Tom Babette Simon

By Avi

Three original stories in which a boy and a cat change places, a young man learns the price of selfishness, and an invisible princess finds herself.

The Escape From Home

By Avi

Driven from their impoverished Irish village, fifteen-year-old Maura and her younger brother meet their landlord's runaway son in Liverpool while all three wait for a ship to America.

Beyond the western sea book II

By Avi

Driven from their impoverished Irish village, fifteen-year-old Maura and her younger brother meet their landlord's runaway son in Liverpool while all three wait for a ship to America; their fates c...

The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle

By Avi

As the lone "young lady" on a transatlantic voyage in 1832, Charlotte learns that the captain is murderous and the crew rebellious. The "Seahawk" looms against a darkening sky. Manned by an angry,...