Colorado Parks & Wildlife Research Library

Discovering that the house where his family has just moved has a mysterious history, newcomer Tamal has terrifying encounters with a girl who desperately needs his help and whom his parents cannot see.

Wheelchair-bound middle school student Jamie Grimm's recent victory in the Planet's Funniest Kid Comic Contest leads to a television sitcom based on his life, but being the star of the show forces him to balance his newfound success with the responsibilities of being a good friend.

"Far away, on a distant planet, two aliens meet...but Janet is a Smed. Bill is a Smoo. And everyone knows that Smeds and Smoos can't be friends. What will their families do when they find out?"--Dust jacket.

A German shepherd is transformed from Etzel, a police dog in Berlin, to Strongheart, a silent movie star that will need his best acting skills to prove himself innocent of attacking a girl.

An honest young boy tries to get rid of an ever-increasing number of snakes that have come with the bowlful of silver coins he found.

A biography focusing on the childhood of the inventor who patented more than 1,100 inventions in sixty years, among them the electric light and the phonograph.

This is a biography of the youngest skater ever to win United States and World Figure Skating Championships.

Despite the dangers, Black Cloud enjoys his life as a wild mustang colt in 1951 Nevada but when humans round up and slaughter his herd, he is rescued by a talkative girl named Annie who gives him a safe and comfortable life, lacking nothing but freedom.

Just after his best friends make a list of things sixteen-year-old Ted should do to live it up, he learns that he has injested poison and will be dead in twenty-four hours--which might be enough time to do everything on the list.