Russell Hoban

Frances decides she likes to eat only bread and jam at every meal--until to her surprise--her parents grant her wish.

Frances is jealous of her sister's birthday, but birthday spirit moves her to reluctantly give her coveted gift.

A wind-up toy mouse and his child, broken and then mended, set out to find the animals and doll house with which they were in the toy shop. Along the way, they make enemies with a dump rat and have many adventures.

Riddley Walker is a brilliant, unique, completely realized work of fiction. One reads it again and again, discovering new wonders every time through. Set in a remote future in a post-nuclear holocaust England (Inland), Hoban has imagined a humanity regressed to an iron-age, semi-literate state, and invented a language to represent it. Riddley is at once the Huck Finn and the Stephen Dedalus of his culture: rebel, change agent, and artist. Read this...

When Albert and his buddies have a "no girls" baseball game, Frances and her sister organize a "Best Friends Outing -- No Boys."

A young boy who is afraid of the operation that can help him get well learns to overcome his fear with the help of a caring nurse.

Twenty-two poems reflect Frances' observations on the events in her life.

When Rosie's popsicle stick turns into a horse named Stickerino, they have a lot of adventures.

When Megafright International flattens their beautiful mountain to put up a hi-tech plastic theme park, the O'Saurus family uses faith and lots of Monsta-Gloo to put things right.

Frances has trouble going to sleep because of frightening sounds and objects that may be going to get her.