Russell Hoban

When things change around the house after her baby sister is born, Frances decides to run away--but not too far.

Frances decides she likes to eat only bread and jam at every meal--until to her surprise--her parents grant her wish.

Frances is jealous of her sister's birthday, but birthday spirit moves her to reluctantly give her coveted gift.

A wind-up toy mouse and his child, broken and then mended, set out to find the animals and doll house with which they were in the toy shop. Along the way, they make enemies with a dump rat and have many adventures.

A young boy who is afraid of the operation that can help him get well learns to overcome his fear with the help of a caring nurse.

Riddley Walker is a brilliant, unique, completely realized work of fiction. One reads it again and again, discovering new wonders every time through. Set in a remote future in a post-nuclear holocaust England (Inland), Hoban has imagined a humanity regressed to an iron-age, semi-literate state, and invented a language to represent it. Riddley is at once the Huck Finn and the Stephen Dedalus of his culture: rebel, change agent, and artist. Read this...

John goes for a ride in the sky on Ace Dragon's back and finds him not so limited after all.

A little boy loses all the fights he has with his best friend until his father gives him some good advice.