Living in ruin and rubble with a wire fence and soldiers separating him from the cool hills where his father used to take him as a small child, a boy's tiny, green plant shoot gives him hope in a bleak landscape. En un pueblo reducido a escombros y ruinas, una cerca de espino prohibe a un niño a quien le encantaba pasear por las colinas al otro lado. Un día aparece un retoño verde. ¿Podrá este retoño devolver la esperanza a este paisaje devastado...

While helping Grandpa Mike do volunteer work at a shelter for less fortunate people, Izzy tries to figure out the best way to help a girl her own age who is staying there.

Corren los años veinte del siglo pasado, y descubrimos a la pequeña Francie Nolan leyendo sentada en la escalera antiincendios de su casa, a la sombra de un árbol que solo crece en los barrios más pobres de las grandes ciudades. Poco a poco, la mirada se aleja de la chiquilla para abarcar a la estrafalaria familia Nolan, que malvive en un vecindario de Brooklyn. Conoceremos así a sus padtres, a su hermano y a la entreñable tía Sissy, que usa...

When her grandmother reveals that the daughter that she had given up for adoption is coming from America to visit her Vietnamese family, nine-year-old Binh is convinced that her newly-discovered aunt is wealthy and will take care of all the family's needs.

At first dismayed at having to spend the last month of her summer vacation helping out in the household of recently widowed Mrs. Hata, Rinko discovers there are pleasant surprises for her, but then bad things start to happen. Sequel to "A Jar of Dreams."

Novel based on personal experience of the author with his mother.

Armando and his father are trash-pickers in Tijuana, Mexico, but when Señor David brings his "school"--a blue tarp set down near the garbage dump--to their neighborhood, Armando's father decides that he must attend classes and learn. Based on a true story.

Armando and his father are trash-pickers in Tijuana, Mexico, but when Señor David brings his "school"--a blue tarp set down near the garbage dump--to their neighborhood, Armando's father decides that he must attend classes and learn. Based on a true story.

First, in a special stand-alone issue, we meet a couple of characters for the first and last time - an aging husband and wife who eke out a living in the harsh and rugged heart of the Badlands. Next, Red Crow sends his right-hand man Shunka to sort out a feud with a rival Native American casino, but now he's become embroiled in a murder mystery. He knows he should walk away, but something inside won't let him, which means things are about to get bloody....