Barbara Bottner

A school librarian encourages her students to make up stories, and teaches a lesson about bullying in the process.

"Priscilla is obsessed with gorillas. But when her ape-like behavior gets her sent to the Thinking Corner, Priscilla wonders if she is really channeling her inner gorilla, or just being a troublemaker"--

In the Bronx in the early 1960s, fourteen-year-old Maisie and her longtime friend Richie start high school, as each struggles with an abusive parent.

A young girl prepares for and participates in the wedding of her favorite aunt.

Good night Gorilla: There is someone at the zoo making hilarious mischief you won't want to miss! Seven blind mice: One by one, on successive days of the week, six different colored blind mice investigate parts of the strange something near their pond and speculate to the group about its identity. Not until the seventh day, when the seventh mouse examines all of it, do they see what it truly is, proving that wisdom comes only from seeing the whole. Wallace's...