New Releases by E. L. Konigsburg

Connor is sure his best friend, Branwell, couldn''t have hurt Branwell''s baby half sister, Nikki. But Nikki lies in a coma, and Branwell is in a juvenile behavioral center, suspected of a horrible crime and unable to utter the words to tell what really happened. Connor is the only one who might be able to break through Branwell''s wall of silence. But how can he prove Branwell didn''t commit the unspeakable act of which he''s accused — when Branwell can''t speak for himself?

Great middle greats fiction.

Two fifth-grade girls, one of whom is the first black child in a middle-income suburb, play at being apprentice witches.

Traditional Chinese edition of From the mixed-up files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg. In Traditional Chinese. Annotation copyright Tsai Fong Books, Inc. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.

The many sights of New York provide daily distractions for Amy Elizabeth and Grandma as they attempt to find the time to go see Bloomingdale''s.

Author biography, chapter summaries, discussion questions, vocabulary builders, reproducibles, cross-curricular activities for students of all learning styles for the novel The view from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg.

While his mother is off honeymooning with her rich, straitlaced new husband, R. Maximilian Stubbs is shipped off to spend the summer with his father, an itinerant camel-keeper.

A ten-year-old orphan comes to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors where she discovers an invalid cousin and the mysteries of a locked garden.

ALA Notable Book "Horn Book" Fanfare Winner of the International Children''s Literature Association''s 1999 Phoenix Award * A retired college president is determined to best a young beachcomber * A store manager accuses a boy of shoplifting * A tour guide strikes a bargain with an enterprising orphan * A boy recovering from a broken arm befriends an elderly woman in an old folks'' home * A widow and her son seize an opportunity presented by a pair of antiques dealers In each of these extraordinary short stories from the perceptive pen of E. L. Konigsburg, a chance meeting between two people casts a shadow on what things have been and what they can become, and changes a life forever.

Spending the summer in Florida with her stepfather''s sister who operates a "meals-on-wheels" van, twelve-year-old Chloë and her aunt become involved in a controversy surrounding the wearing of T-back bathing suits.

Caroline, who was kidnapped as a teenager, returns home to claim her family fortune.