Most Popular Books by Brock Cole

Two children, exiled, lost, in a few ordinary American places clustered around a lake, bring about their own deliverance.

At the request of her social worker, 13-year-old Linda gradually reveals how her life with her unstable mother and her younger brother led to her rape and the murder she witnessed. This "School Library Journal''s" Best Book of the Year, "pushes the envelope of children''s literature" ("Booklist").

Maggie, Katie, and Nora try to help their always-worried and fearful grandmother by entering her dreams and replacing her fears of burglars, trains, and bills with images of sails, sun, and the sea.

Before Celine, a sixteen-year-old artist, can take a promised trip to Europe, she must show a little maturity, finish an overdue term paper and support her seven-year-old neighbor during his parent''s separation. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

One of Horn Book''s Best Picture Books of 2011 A turkey poult causes turmoil for a family in this exuberant romp through the Christmas season, The Money We''ll Save, by award-winning author/illustrator Brock Cole. When Pa brings a turkey poult home to fatten for Christmas dinner, he assures Ma that it will be no trouble since it can live in a box by the stove and eat table scraps--and just think of the money we''ll save! But it''s not quite so simple to raise a turkey in a tiny flat in a nineteenth-century New York City tenement. Can Pa and the children manage the willful and growing Alfred and keep the neighbors happy until Christmas? Pa finds a solution for every difficulty--until he encounters one that threatens to ruin Christmas completely. How the family joins together to solve this last difficulty makes for a very funny and satisfying holiday story.

A beggar arrives at the inn declaring he is a king but only manages to convince Little Baggit, the servant.

À la colonie, les autres trouvaient cela vraiment très drôle, de les laisser tous les deux seuls sur l’île aux Boucs, nus, pour la nuit. Lui n’était pas très costaud. Elle ne savait pas nager. Ce qui n’était pas prévu, c’est que Laura et Howie s’échapperaient. Sans argent, sans vêtements, sans nulle part où se réfugier, et ne pouvant compter que l’un sur l’autre. Maintenant, la police, leurs parents, tout le monde les cherche. Eux, ils se sont trouvés. Mais jusqu’où ?

Stripped and marooned on a small island by their fellow campers, a boy and a girl form an uneasy bond that grows into a deep friendship when they decide to run away and disappear without a trace.

At the request of her social worker, thirteen-year-old Linda gradually reveals how her life with her unstable mother and her younger brother led to her rape and the murder she witnessed.

Once there was a poor girl who had no mama and no papa and nothing at all, not even a name. But then one day an Ogre comes knocking at the town’s gate, threatening to ravage the town unless the townspeople give him one of their fair maidens. Of course they pick this poor girl to be sacrificed. They dress her in a gown and a paper crown, put her in a sack, and leave her for the Ogre. But this brave and clever girl manages to outwit the Ogre and all the townspeople, too, earning a purse full of gold, a fine sharp sword, and most important, a fitting name for herself: Good-Enough-to-Eat. This satisfying story has the feel of a classic fairy tale, brought to life by Brock Cole’s expressive watercolors. Good Enough To Eat is a 2008 Bank Street - Best Children''s Book of the Year.

When their father eats so much that he pops the buttons off his britches, each of his three daughters tries a different plan to find replacements. Reprint.

Stripped and marooned on a small island by their fellow campers, a boy and a girl form an uneasy bond that grows into a deep friendship when they decide to run away and disappear without a trace.

Laura en Howie zijn noodgedwongen op elkaar aangewezen als ze door de kinderen van het zomerkamp uit pesterij op een onbewoond eiland worden achtergelaten.

Sixteen-year-old artist Celine suffers the painful experiences of adolescence--school problems, an uneasy love, and unwanted responsibilities--but she learns much about the adult world that she will soon join.

Two misfits at summer camp find inner strength and self-knowledge when they are cruelly marooned on an island by fellow campers. They are the "goats." They escape and learn--in addition to survival-on-the-run skills such as petty thievery and grand theft/auto--cooperation, intimacy, and loyalty. Quietly witty, this remarkable book yields new depths with each reading.

At the request of her social worker, thirteen-year-old Linda gradually reveals how her life with her unstable mother and her younger brother led to her rape and the murder she witnessed. A ground-breaking sexually explicit story about Linda and how the experiences in her life lead to murder.