New Releases by Donn Kushner

A pixie who helps and hinders a boy disappears just before the child's parents bring home a new baby.

He had "disappeared," Manuel's parents agreed. Many people disappeared these days. One instant they were where they should be: at work, or in their gardens, or walking down the street to buy a newspaper. And then suddenly they weren't anywhere. No one had seen them; sometime no one had heard anything about the. The stories of their lives just stopped, and remained unfinished. The way they vanished seemed worse than death itself.

Grade level: 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, e, i, s.

Mr. Mopski, the museum dinosaur bones duster, tries to make his dinosaur friends happy with very surprising results.

A boy from Nigeria overcomes racism in his new American town with the help of Black American spirits.

Nonesuch, the last in a line of dragons, uses his unique ability to change in size to survive for six centuries, during which time he observes such different humans as a medieval monk, an eighteenth-century London chemist, and a modern American bookseller.

Paul discovers the story of his Great Uncle Jacob, the black sheep of the family, who believed that the ghosts of two beloved friends followed him when he emigrated from Poland to America.

A poor violin-maker gives away a foundling bird, not realizing its rare and wonderful gifts.

A poor violin-maker gives away a foundling bird, not realizing its rare and wonderful gifts.