A collection of stories and poems about tricksters in all parts of the world by a variety of authors.

From the editors of From One Experience to Another -- a New York Public Library "Best Books for the Teen Age" selection -- a new collection featuring celebrated writers for young adults. Contributors include Paul Zindel, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for drama, Adele Griffin, a National Book Award Finalist, and Jon Scieszka, author of The Stinky Cheese Man & Other Fairly Stupid Tales, a New York Times "Notable Book of the Year." Other authors include...

"Risking Everything : A Freedom Summer Reader documents the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer Project, when SNCC and CORE workers and volunteers arrived in the Deep South to register voters and teach non-violence, and more than 60,000 Black Mississippians risked everything to overturn a system that had brutally exploited them. In the 44 original documents in this anthology, you'll read their letters, eavesdrop on their meetings, shudder at their suffering,...

"Welcome back to the sleepy 1950s Cotswold village of Kembleford, where-in addition to shepherding his flock-Father Brown (Mark Williams, Harry Potter films, Doctor Who) uses his personal blend of intuition, psychology, compassion and justice to solve local crimes. He's ably abetted in his investigations by no-nonsense parish secretary Mrs. McCarthy, glamorous socialite Lady Felicia Montague and her accommodating chauffeur, Sid Carter. If only Detective...

"Back from Africa, the Doctor is short of money as always. So he takes the pushmi-pullyu on tour in Doctor Dolittle's Circus! But in Albert Blossom's circus, what he finds is a whole new family of animals in need of his help. In Doctor Dolittle's Caravan he expands his circus to include the grand "Canary Opera," and makes a sensation of its star, Pippinella, whose story is told in full in Doctor Dolittle and the Green Canary! And in Doctor Dolittle...

"There was a time when no one burned hotter than Eve Babitz. Possessing skin that radiated "its own kind of moral laws," spectacular teeth, and a figure that was the stuff of legend, she seduced seemingly everyone who was anyone in Los Angeles for a long stretch of the 1960s and '70s. But there was one man who proved elusive, and so Babitz did what she did best, she wrote him a book. She also pulled off a remarkable sleight of hand: Slow Days, Fast...

Thousands of books for teens are published every year, but until now no general reference has existed. Anita Silvey"s book is the one everyone has been waiting for. Parents will see what their teenagers are actually reading and be able to lead them to the best of an overwhelming bunch. Teachers will spot excellent additions to summer reading lists. Booksellers will have a host of suggestions in every genre to offer their customers. Librarians can...

Cob, a structural composite of earth, water, straw, clay, and sand, has been used for centuries, in virtually all parts of the world, to create homes ranging from mud huts in Africa to lavish adobe haciendas in Latin America. This practical and inspiring hands-on guide teaches anyone to build a cob dwelling.

A collection of contemporary American poetry for the general reader compiled to commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Pitt Poetry Series.