Kathi Appelt

An otherworldly fox is born to help eleven-year-old Jules, who is grieving over the death of her sister.

An old hound that has been chained up at his hateful owner's run-down shack, and two kittens born underneath the house, endure separation, danger, and many other tribulations in their quest to be reunited and free.

On the night of the blue moon when mermaids are said to gather on a sandbar in the Gulf of Mexico, ten-year-old Keeper sets out in a small boat, with her dog BD and a seagull named Captain, determined to find her mother, a mermaid, as Keeper has always believed, who left long ago to return to the sea.

A mother explains to her child all the ways her love remains even while she's away.

Pigs dance the night away when a polka band plays at the annual hootenanny. It's the yearly hootenanny for piggies all across the holler. They're hankerin' for a porky polka rhythm--plus a piggy rigadoon, a piggy roundelay, and, of course, a piggy mosh pit! Illustrations and rhythmic rhymes introduce musical styles and instruments to the youngest readers.

"The reader is invited to count hungry crows as they hunt for savory snacks" -- Title page verso.

In 1910, Zada the camel treks across the West Texas desert to save two baby kestrels from an approaching haboob, a mountain-sized storm, sharing adventures from her youth in Turkey to keep them calm.

While preparing for a visit from some relatives--and even after they arrive--Bubba and Beau want nothing more than to sink their paws into the squishy, squashy mud hole.

A collection of poems about the experiences of young people and a section with information about how each poem was written to enable readers to create their own original poems.

On a midsummer's night the Marching Bat Band makes a rare appearance, its members grouped in formations that demonstrate multiplication from two times two up to ten times ten.