Kevin R. Free

The farm animals try to divert a busy little spider from spinning her web, but she persists and produces a thing of both beauty and usefulness.

Despite their best efforts, Carter and Sade Kane can't seem to keep Apophis, the chaos snake, down. Their only hope: find an ancient spell that might turn the serpent's own shadow into a weapon. The conclusion to the Kane chronicles trilogy.

Shrimpy learns that even though he may be small, he can still make a big difference to his friend, Big Al. In this sequel to Big Al, Andrew Clements's very first book, we meet Shrimpy, the smartest fish in the sea. But he's so small the other fish want nothing to do with him, except for Big Al, who understands what it's like to feel different. But when Big Al gets into trouble, it's Shrimpy's brains that save the day. Poor Shrimpy! He may be the...

In 1985, Anthony Ray Hinton was arrested and charged with two counts of capital murder in Alabama. Stunned, confused, and only twenty-nine years old, Hinton knew that it was a case of mistaken identity and believed that the truth would prove his innocence and ultimately set him free. But with no money and a different system of justice for a poor black man in the South, Hinton was sentenced to death by electrocution. He spent his first three years...

After Othella--the daughter of the town tramp in Shreveport, Louisiana--convinces her to give her baby away, fifteen-year-old Ruby Jean Upshaw runs away to New Orleans, where nothing can quell her simmering rage at Othella for persuading her to let her baby go.