Francis

In the rugged landscape of early frontier Texas, fourteen-year-old Travis is faced with taking over his family's farm and making a painful, important decision.

Alex, Alice and Alistair think they are just three ordinary mice, until Alistair mysteriously vanishes. Then Alex and Alice learn a secret about their family: a secret which means Alistair's life is in danger - unless Alex and Alice can find him first. So begins a hair-raising journey.

Shy, plain Jane is delighted with her new best friend, Natalie, who has magical power, even though this friendship costs her the friendship of all the other kids on Barkley Street. One day Natalie moves and Jane finds a four-legged friend.

Nine-year-old Mason's parents keep trying to get him a pet, but until he and his best friend Brody adopt a three-legged dog, he is not interested.

Fred, a plow horse on an Oklahoma farm, dreams of being Federico the Dancing Horse, but his antics cause trouble and he is sent away, to seek not only his dream but a home where he might truly belong.

Presents information about wild horses through the conversation of ten-year-old April, who is vacationing in the West, and the cowboy she meets.

Presents information about the millions of bison, or buffalo, which roamed the open prairies of the Far West when the country was young.

Here's the second entry in veteran author Claudia Mills' charming middle-grade series, which finds the lovably sardonic title character starting the fourth grade, which he's dreading: everyone in fourth grade is expected to join the school choir. And sing. In front of everyone. Mason can't think of many things he enjoys less than singing. But performing in front of other people might come close; Mason devises a foolproof plan that will keep him out...