The Far Side of Evil

By Sylvia Engdahl

A young girl from an advanced civilization is sent as an observer to a planet whose people have not yet learned to control their use of atomic power. Sequel to "Enchantress from the Stars."

The Stones

By Janet Hickman

While his father is fighting in Europe, a young American boy, motivated by misguided patriotism, harasses an old man who has a German name.

Old Ben

By Richard Cuffari Jesse Stuart

The Cartoonist

By Betsy Cromer Byars

Threatened with the loss of his private place in the attic of his crowded home, a young boy determines to keep it at all costs.

The odyssey of Ben O'Neal

By Taylor Theodore

The further adventures of Ben and Teetoncey as they take to the sea--he, to find his brother, and she to escape a forced return to England.

Teetoncey and Ben O'Neal

By Taylor Theodore

When the English girl Ben saved from a shipwreck recovers her memory and speech and reveals to him that two chests full of silver went down with the ship, Ben and his friends try to recover them wi...

The melodeon

By Glendon Fred Swarthout

A youngster relates how his grandparents donated a valuable family heirloom, their melodeon, to the church in an unselfish act of giving one Christmas during the Depression when they had nothing to...

Confessions of an only child.

By Norma Klein

Between the time her baby brother is born prematurely and dies and the time the next baby is born, Antonia gradually adjusts to the idea of not being an only child.

In her father's footsteps

By Bianca R. Bradbury

Jenny thought her future as a veterinarian in partnership with her father was assured until, beginning with the fire in the animal hospital, everything went wrong.

The blazing hills

By Sibyl Hancock

Relates the events of the 1846 Easter eve when the white settlers of Fredericksburg, Texas, made a treaty, still commemorated annually, with the neighboring Apache and Comanche tribes.