Kathi Appelt

Graduating eighth graders relate their stories of love and heartbreak that have brought them to Dogwood Junior High's magical Stardust Dance.

A collection of poems about the experiences of young people and a section with information about how each poem was written to enable readers to create their own original poems.

Even after a long day of running errands, baby Bubba and his puppy Beau are not ready for bedtime.

On the night of the blue moon when mermaids are said to gather on a sandbar in the Gulf of Mexico, ten-year-old Keeper sets out in a small boat, with her dog BD and a seagull named Captain, determined to find her mother, a mermaid, as Keeper has always believed, who left long ago to return to the sea.