New Releases by DyAnne DiSalvo

Brian Higman is about to be in major trouble. Another big red zero is headed his way. This time his parents will definitely explode. He needs a really good excuse for not doing his sloppy copy. His teacher, known as The General, is waiting. But how can he make her understand that his impossible five-year-old brother, a rock band rehearsal at his house, and the disappearance of his entire life savings all kept him from doing his homework?

Angelo and his grandfather help rejuvenate a local park with the help of neighbors who remember their roots and band together.

A hardworking family gets their own house at last by joining a community program that restores old houses. Includes a note about housing organizations, such as Habitat for Humanity.

The true story of a mother cat that becomes a celebrity when it rescues its kittens from a burning building in New York in 1996.

Grandfather''s corner grocery business is threatened by a new supermarket, but his granddaughter, Lucy, organizes the neighbors to convince him to stay.

After a long life of chasing squirrels, licking ice cream cones, and loving his adoptive family, an old dog comes to the end of his days.

A little girl enthusiastically describes a visit to spend the night with her grandma.

"A straightforward fictional view of an urban soup kitchen, as observed by a boy visiting it with his `Uncle Willie,'' who works there every day....The difficult lives of those fed (including children)--as well as the friendly, nonintrusive attitude of the kitchen workers toward them--are presented sensitively but without sentimentality.

Dads do just about everything.