KATHERINE PATERSON

All summer, Jess pushed himself to be the fastest boy in the fifth grade, and when the year's first school-yard race was run, he was going to win.But his victory was stolen by a newcomer, by a girl, one who didn't even know enough to stay on the girls' side of the playground. Then, unexpectedly, Jess finds himself sticking up for Leslie, for the...

2013 Laura Ingalls Wilder Award Rosa's mother is singing again, for the first time since Papa...

Robbie is the son of a preacher in small-town America in 1899. People are saying that the world's going to end at the turn of the century, so Robbie decides that he'd better make the most of his life and have as much fun as possible. But his outrageous behaviour does little to improve people's opinions of him, or his father.