Thora Birch

With a simple, witty story and free-spirited illustrations, Peter H. Reynolds entices even the stubbornly uncreative among us to make a mark and follow where it takes us. Her teacher smiled. "Just make a mark and see where it takes you." Art class is over, but Vashti is sitting glued to her chair in front of a blank piece of paper. The words of her teacher are a gentle invitation to express herself. But Vashti can't draw - she's no artist. To prove...

Jimmie Fails dreams of reclaiming the Victorian home his grandfather built in the heart of San Francisco. Joined on his quest by his best friend Mont, Jimmie searches for belonging in a rapidly changing city that seems to have left them behind. As he struggles to reconnect with his family and reconstruct the community he longs for, his hopes blind him to the reality of his situation.

A young girl wants to reunite her divorced parents during the holidays. Determined to carry out her plan, she seeks out the Santa Claus at Macy's to tell him what she truly hopes for.

An emotionally & spiritually comatose suburban man decides "to hell with it all" and reverts to living as he did when he was happiest--as a carefree teenager. His desperately uptight wife and sullen daughter can only look on as he quits his corporate job to become a burger flipper, starts getting high with a strange new neighbor (whose parents are even stranger) and lusts after a pouty blonde teenager--his daughter's best friend.

As a new day begins in the small American town of Minninnewah, the residents start their day as ordinary as the next. Mother Nature, however, has other plans for them. Inhabitants have just thirteen minutes to seek shelter before the largest tornado on record ravages the town, leaving them struggling to protect their loved ones and fighting for their lives. Left to deal with the aftermath, four families must overcome their differences and find strength...

A heartwarming comedy about the childhood mischief of four best friends who reunite after twenty years.

Princess Savina inherits the throne and the royal scepter, which has the power to command dragons. She decides all people should be equal. This doesn't sit well with Profion who leads a revolt against her.

Two teenagers challenge both nature and themselves on a death-defying mission, as they set out to rescue their father in the arctic wilderness of Alaska where his plane has crashed, rescuing an amazingly friendly polar bear cub from a poacher along the way.

An artist recovering from a psychological breakdown retreats to a remote Victorian house to convalesce and finish her screenplay by the approaching deadline. When she begins hearing strange sounds and seeing apparitions, her search for the source uncovers disturbing videotapes in the attic. As she digs deeper to uncover the mysterious story of the couple on the tapes, she becomes twisted up in a terrifying pursuit to find out what is behind the endless...

Liz Murray was raised in poverty by drug-addicted parents. Though they loved her, they were unable to care for her and Liz ended up living on the streets by the age of 15. Profoundly affected by her mother's AIDS-related death, Liz forced herself to look at her future and make some significant changes. Her prospects were dismal, yet she turned her life around by going back to high school. While still homeless, Liz earned her diploma in two years....