A vacant lot, rat-infested, and filled with garbage, looked like no place for a garden. Especially to a neighborhood of strangers where no one seems to care. Until one day, a young girl clears a...

Paul Fleischman is a master of sound, incorporating a soaring, energetic musicality into his writing. His poems for two voices--Joyful Noise and I Am Phoenix--make for irresistable listening....

Young Brent Bishop is connected to little in his life--not his parents, his friends, nature and least of all, himself. He commits a drastic act without thought of consequences and, in retribution...