Dean Schneider
Content by Dean Schneider
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What exactly happened that day after swim practice, when Darren Flynn accepted a ride home with Mr. Tracy, his English teacher? Did anything happen? Mr.
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An orphan boy fulfilling an ancient legend, a dragon seeking the Rim of Heaven in the Himalayas, and a brownie named Sorrel journey together to find a new home when humans encroach upon the valley of
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<B>A fourth grader's fantasy</B> Leon Zeisel lives at the Trimore Towers, where his mother is the night manager.
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"Families are the strangest things.
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The homeless teenagers in Todd Strasser's gritty new novel Can't Get There from Here are named Maybe, 2Moro, Country Club, Maggot, Rainbow and Tears.
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This true tale of a whaling disaster averted begins in late spring 1871, when 1,219 men, women and children sailed in 39 whaling ships to the Arctic in pursuit of the bowhead whale.
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In the late 21st century in the USSA United Safer States of America safety is paramount.
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<B>A survivor's compelling story</B> In this National Book Award finalist, 13-year-old Lakshmi lives in a hut, perched on a mountainside in the Himalayas.
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This new offering from adult novelist Alice Hoffman is a haunting, beautiful post-9/11 fairy tale for our time.
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<B>A teen's endless tour of America</B> Called lots of things con artists, thieves, swindlers, trailer trash the Travelers are a band of contemporary gypsies who tour the roads of Amer
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A strange old man with a wicker basket approaches the Carbuncles' house in New England. In the basket are two baby boys and a beautiful dulcimer.
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Reading a novel by Angela Johnson is like reading a poem: you find yourself collecting favorite lines and images the way 13-year-old Bird catches fireflies.
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It's 1978, and life is good for high school senior Eva Lott.
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A school visit to the community of Ketchikan, Alaska, inspired acclaimed children's author Karen Hesse to write Aleutian Sparrow, a poignant new novel concerning a side of American history few
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True friends: Bailey defends 12-year-old Rosie from school bullies; Rosie secretly learns to read Braille as a surprise for Bailey, who is blind.
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As Walter Dean Myers says in the introduction to Antarctica, his fascination with the earth's coldest regions began, appropriately enough, during the Cold War, when he was on the U.
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In Valerie Hobbs' new novel, Defiance, we are introduced to two people from different worlds. Pearl is 94, born before television or computers or cell phones.
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In a magical tale woven by master storyteller Rafe Martin, characters have "fallen out of legend" into a story of extraordinary beauty and philosophical depth.
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When this story opens, 15-year-old Ruby says, "My life better not turn out to be like one of those hideous books where the mother dies." She hates books like that, where the main character's mother d
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The Collins girls are loud, loud, LOUD. Kentucky Collins is 14, the oldest and most popular. Virginia Collins is 12 and the prettiest. Georgia is 11 and the smartest.
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"Call me thief. Call me stupid. Call me Gypsy. Call me Jew. Call me one-eared Jack.
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Luke's father died two years ago, and since then his life has gone down the tubes.
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Before Naomi went on a quest to Mexico to find her father, she was a quiet girl, always speaking in a barely audible whisper.
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Good Kate and Bad Kate battle in the same body. Good Kate Malone is the minister's daughter, the honor roll student, the good sister.
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As Hazel Rochman has written, "Great literature humanizes history." Beverly Naidoo's new collection of short stories is excellent literature, and it humanizes the history of apartheid in
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Just in time for spring commencement comes a great literary gift idea, a book that might be classified as an anthology of epiphanies.
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Comeuppance is the theme of the six stories in The Ribbajack, an eerie new collection from master storyteller Brian Jacques.
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<B>Leo's casting call</B><BR><BR> Twelve-year-old Leo feels like a canned sardine at home with his big, noisy family, and his frequent lapses into a Walter Mitty-like f
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"Can a friend be somebody that nobody else likes but you?" This is the question 11-year-old Pearl Jordan asks herself in Some Friend, a poignant new novel by Marie Bradby.
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On his famous voyage on the HMS Beagle, Charles Darwin traveled around the world, from the Cocos-Keeling Islands of the Indian Ocean to Australia, Patagonia, Brazil and Chile, collecting fossil bon
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William Edmondson (1874-1951), the son of freed slaves, never attended school and never learned to read and write, yet he became one of the great sculptors of our time.
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Drugstore owner Frank Robinson wants to bring Dayton, Tennessee, back to life. Since Cumberland Coal and Iron shut down its blast furnace, business is hurting and the population is declining.
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Mark Warren has what seems to be an enviable life. He has a good family, he's the star pitcher of his high school baseball team, and he has a new girlfriend named Diane.
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<B>Petit's unforgettable feat</B> One August evening in 1974, a man dressed as a construction worker began moving equipment to the top of the south tower at the World Trade Center.
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Once upon a time there was a girl who served pizza in a rat costume. That was me. So begins the fairy tale of Ashley Hannigan, keen observer of her kingdom.
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"I guess I always felt even if the world came to an end, McDonald's would still be open," 16-year-old Miranda says when her life suddenly takes a turn for the worse.
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As a child and as an adult, Linda Sue Park has witnessed many episodes of racism between Asians and blacks.
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Emmett Till was a 14-year-old African-American boy from Chicago visiting cousins in Money, Mississippi, in 1955.
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"What's to be done about the gloom that's everywhere?" McNulty, the fire-eater, says to 13-year-old Bobby Burns. He's a small man, his skin scarred and covered with tattoos of women and dragons.
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Turner Buckminster has moved with his family from Boston to Phippsburg, Maine, where his father will be the new minister.
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David Case was doomed. Everywhere he looked he saw threats: plane crashes, car crashes, bird flu, serial killers, nuclear waste, alien invasions.
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Back in the heyday of circuses, tents were waterproofed, believe it or not, with a mixture of paraffin and gasoline.
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Much of Joss Aaronson's life is defined by what she isn't. She isn't a proper comp, a user of antique screte, or a genetic monster created in a lab.
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Dorso Clayman is getting annoyed. Who wants to open a locker door and find a cadaver? Especially one partially cut open, with stink rolling out in a green cloud.
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Benjamin Ward drops out of school to work at the Blackwater Logging Camp in Minnesota. His father, the cook, is proud of his work, and Ben is his assistant, his cookee.
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Cassie, Emily and Lydia could be Siamese triplets, if there were such a thing. Friends forever, they look out for each other as they weave their ways through high school life.
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Fans of The Birchbark House have eagerly awaited the second installment in Louise Erdrich's cycle of novels about the young Ojibwe girl Omakayas and her life on Lake Superior.
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Recent children's literature has been dominated by fantasies and magical quests, but there are many great nonfiction books out there, too.
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"Each of us has a story and it starts with a name." But who would ever name a kid Dillon Dillon? And what's his story?
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With her mind on the movies and a voice as fresh and electric as her personality, Ruby Millers loves films going to them, talking about them, writing scripts for them.
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A pistol shot, a teenage girl falling from an abandoned pier, a police interrogation, Coast Guard searches. Casey Carmody is missing. Was she shot? Is she playing a practical joke?
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In a simply written, swift-moving narrative that won the 2004 National Book Award for Young People's Literature, Pete Hautman's Godless explores the nature of religion, belief, power, obsessio
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