A determined girl spends the summer before middle school learning to stand up for her low-income community in this funny, fast-paced read just right for fans of Kelly Yang's Front…

Fourth-graders Maisie and Hank, who has autism, become friends as they devise schemes to save a neighbor’s dog, Booler, from being tied to a tree because of his epilepsy.

Demonstrating that oral media and native cultural forms are vital throughout the South Pacific, this book raises issues in comparative scholarship on oral tradition: what it means, extra-textual elements, and…