"Beloved American hero Buzz Aldrin reflects on the wisdom, guiding principles, and irreverent anecdotes he's gathered through his event-filled life--both in outer space and on Earth--in this inspiring guide-to-life for the next generation. Everywhere he goes, crowds gather to meet Buzz Aldrin. He is a world-class hero, a larger-than-life figurehead, best known of a generation of astronauts whose achievements surged in just a few years from first man...

"Isaac Fitzgerald has lived many lives. He's been an altar boy, a bartender, a fat kid, a smuggler, a biker, a prince of New England. But before all that, he was a bomb that exploded his parents' lives-or so he was told. In Dirtbag, Massachusetts, Fitzgerald, with warmth and humor, recounts his ongoing search for forgiveness, a more far-reaching vision of masculinity, and a more expansive definition of family and self. Fitzgerald's memoir-in-essays...

Four stories set in the fictional town of Odyssey follow Mark, Patti, and other members of the Whit's End gang as they learn of loss, love, and of life.

Hakeem is on good terms with all of the neighbors on his street - playing with the children, and helping the adults.

Just like the rest of us, superheroes have bad days. They could use super-powers to cause a big scene. Or run amok and act super-mean. But even when they're really, REALLY mad, they can't--they won't act super-bad.

Sixty seconds. Seven floors. Three rules. One gun. Will's older brother, Shawn, has been shot. Dead. Will feels a sadness so great he can't explain it. But in his neighborhood there are THE RULES: No. 1: Crying. Don't. No matter what. No. 2: Snitching. Don't. No matter what. No. 3: Revenge. Do. No matter what. But bullets miss. You can get the wrong guy. And there's always someone else who knows to follow the rules.

A beloved and very sleepy little boy resists his mother's efforts to put him to bed.

Teach children how teasing, when done with the wrong motives, in the wrong place or at the wrong time, can be destructive. Also teaches children how to protect themselves from unwanted teasing.

Lauren is friendly with Sarah even after the new girl brags that her horse is much better than Lauren's, but when Sarah gets in trouble while riding in the woods, Lauren and her horse come to the rescue.