I wonder if this love of books is hereditary. I sometimes think that might be why I'm still coming so often to the shop on my days off from work
LET'S GET ONE THING STRAIGHT: This camp's "fun and games" do not include singing campfire songs and eating s'mores all night long... But at least at Camp Wannamorra, I, Rafe Khatchadorian, actually have friends for the first time in my life! Introducing just a few of my partners in crime: (TERRIFIES me) My sister, ORCIA (can't get RID of her) BOOGER LATER (my BUNK MATE!) So what do you…
Richard III is one of the finest of Shakespeare's historical dramas. Although it has a huge cast, Richard himself, gleefully wicked, charismatically Machiavellian, always dominates the play: a role to gratify such leading actors as David Garrick, Laurence Olivier, Anthony Sher, Ian McKellen and Al Pacino. Since, in real life, political Machiavellianism is never out of date, Richard III remains …
THIS IS THE TOTALLY INSANE STORY OF HOW I, RAFE KHATCHADORIAN, fought and overcame a diabolical teacher called the Dragon Lady, sold my soul to the school bully, a dollar at a time, wrestled with a real live bear, repeatedly, went into the soda business and went bust, and fell kind of in "like" with the most popular girl in school. The worst days of my life were good sometimes Bad someti…
Kristy, Claudia, Mary Anne, and Stacey try to be prepared for anything when they baby-sit. So when they hear about the Phantom Caller, a jewel thief who's been breaking into nearby homes, they come up with a plan to keep their kids safe. But when Claudia and the other girls start receiving creepy phone calls while they're out on jobs, they start to get really spooked. Will the mystery caller…
"I believe that the reader will discover here the essential nature of one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history," Arthur Miller wrote in an introduction to The Crucible, his classic play about the witch-hunts and trials in seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts. Based on historical people and real events, Miller's drama is a searing portrait of a community engulfed by hyst…
The Pike family is taking a vacation to the beach, and Stacey and Mary Anne get to go along to help out! Two weeks of sun, sand . . . and the cutest lifeguard Stacey has ever seen! Mary Anne says that Scott the lifeguard is way too old for Stacey, and besides, she shouldn't be ignoring the Pike kids to spend more time with a boy. But Stacey is in love. What could possibly be more important t…
Stoneybrook has gone star-crazy! Derek Masters, an eight-year-old regular on a hit TV sitcom, has moved to town. Everyone's wondering what a real-live TV star will be like - will he drive to school in a limo? Jessi can't believe it, but even stars need baby-sitters, and she's the lucky club member to watch Derek Masters. Even though a lot of kids at school call Derek a spoiled brat, Jessi like…