Helen Plum Library

Explores concepts of color, shape, and food using only five simple words, as a bear juggles and plays

A collection of short one-person plays featuring characters, between ten and fifteen years old, who live in or near a thirteenth-century English manor

Thanksgiving time is here again, but there's a turkey on the run! Can you catch this tricky bird before the school play has begun?

"Hailey Twitch has a secret. She has a friend named Maybelle--a sprite no one else can see. Hailey's class is performing a play that is fun, fun, fun! Hailey wants to the star. But when a substitute teacher takes over the class, he makes the play BORING! Hailey needs Maybelle's help. But Maybelle still doesn't have her magic back."--P. [4] of cover

A sprained leg threatens to take away Henry's role as the lead character in his school play

A fire destroys a New York City rare bookstore-and reveals clues to a treasure worth killing for. . . . A disgraced scholar is found tortured to death. . . . And those pursuing the most valuable literary find in history are about to cross from the harmless mundane into inescapable nightmare. From the acclaimed, bestselling author of Tropic of Night comes a breathtaking thriller that twists, shocks, and surprises at every turn as it crisscrosses centuries,...

The setting is a walk-up apartment on Manhattan's West Side where, as the curtain rises, Frankie (a waitress) and Johnny (a short-order cook who works in the same restaurant) are discovered in bed. It is their first encounter, after having met several weeks ago on the job, and Frankie is hopeful that Johnny will now put on his clothes and depart, so she can return to her usual routine of watching TV and eating ice cream. But Johnny, a compulsive talker...