Barbara O'Connor

"Eleven-year-old Charlie Reese has been making the same secret wish every day since fourth grade. She even has a list of all the ways there are to make the wish, such as cutting off the pointed end of a slice of pie and wishing on it as she takes the last bite. But when she is sent to the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina to live with family she barely knows, it seems unlikely that her wish will ever come true. That is until she meets Wishbone,...

Unpopular sixth-grader Burdette "Bird" Weaver persuades the new boy at school, whom everyone thinks is mean and dumb, to be her partner for a spelling bee that might win her everything she's ever wanted.

After Owen captures an enormous bullfrog, names it Tooley Graham, then has to release it, he and two friends try to use a small submarine that fell from a passing train to search for Tooley in the Carter, Georgia, pond it came from, while avoiding nosy neighbor Viola.

Barbara O'Connor is a beloved author whose accolades include honors from the ALA and Junior Library Guild. On the Road to Mr. Mineo's introduces Sherman, the one-legged homing pigeon who flies into town and brings a bunch of hullabaloo with him. Now everyone is all aflutter with Sherman sightings. Everyone, that is, except for Mr. Mineo-he's desperate to find his missing pigeon.

Martin longs to be a musician, and with the encouragement of two very different friends, he eventually is able to defy his mean-hearted father and accept himself and the talent within him.

La situación familiar de Charlie es complicada: su papá está en la correccional y su mamá no puede cuidarla, por lo que debe mudarse con sus tíos Bertha y Gus a Colby, un pequeño pueblo en Carolina del Norte. Definitivamente esto no era parte de sus planes, y peor aún... ¡podría evitar que su misterioso deseo se cumpla! Es por ello que Charlie no hace más que pensar en cómo regresar a Raleigh para estar con su familia, pero todo cambia...

A biography of the notable Italian Renaissance artist, scientist, and inventor.

Describes the life of the modern dancer who created a spontaneous, free-form dance style accompanied by literary readings and non-dance music.

A biography of the nineteenth-century Frenchman, accidentally blinded as a child, who created the dot system of reading and writing that is now used by the blind throughout the world.