Frank Carlson Library

Horrid Henry builds a big, mean monster snowman in order to win the snowman competition against Moody Margaret's ballerina snowgirl, and claim the prize--a year's supply of ice cream--all for himself.

A mischievous frog makes a scene when his parents take him to a fancy restaurant to eat.

As Student of the Week, Carly makes a wish that her classmates celebrate St. Patrick's Day by wearing green and eating green food but not everyone in the class agrees.

When fourth-grader Bernie schemes to have his servile friend Belzer win the Most Outstanding Fourth Grader award, his success yields unexpected consequences.

In 1924 a 17-year-old girl tries to rebuild her life after a personal tragedy by taking a job as switchboard operator in a small town far from home. Instead of a haven, however, she finds her new community in the grip of fanatic prejudices that force her to take a stand for what she knows is right.

Lacey Walker talks constantly, but when she loses her voice one day she learns that being quiet and listening can be good too.

Each of the girls in a middle-school clique reveals the strong, manipulative hold one of the group exerts on the others, causing hurt and self-doubt among the girls.

Horrid Henry causes his brother Perfect Peter all sorts of problems when he behaves properly for a change, upstages Peter at a dance recital, plays pirates, and goes on a camping trip.

Airline captain Rayford Steele goes in search of his family and answers to how billions of people just disappeared off the face of the Earth.

When he and his younger sister move in with their older brother after their grandmother dies, thirteen-year-old Gordy finds himself caught between the boy he was when he lived with his abusive father and the boy his grandmother was helping him become.