Ari Meyers

"Told in alternating voices, when Theodore Finch and Violet Markey meet on the ledge of the bell tower at school--both teetering on the edge--it's the beginning of an unlikely relationship, a journey to discover the "natural wonders" of the state of Indiana, and two teens' desperate desire to heal and save one another"

Molly and Niel Sloan awake to see golden rain falling. In their remote California mountain town, they learn from their television of enormous waterspouts and blizzards around the globe; then, the television ceases, as do all other forms of communication with the outside world. The Sloans are left, together with their neighbors, in the midst of a purple fog, disturbed by a threat they cannot identify or understand. Together they discover that the world...

Follows the learning adventures of Stanley, an imaginative six-year-old who not only learns about animals but from them as well. This collection of four springtime stories explores the worlds of groundhogs, caterpillars, butterflies, and bluebirds. Stanley learns reassuring lessons about change and growing as well as respecting and protecting the environment and its creatures. Stanley and his friends also learn about patience while eagerly anticipating...