New Releases by Jennifer Armstrong

Illustrated in full color. Watch out below! Here comes a giant snowball tumbling down a hill, picking up everything--and everybody--in its path!

A small snowball gets bumped by a skier and rolls down the hill growing in size and picking up people as it goes.

Jailed by an evil foe, a king receives invaluable help from a crow that regularly brings him the latest news.

Absent-minded poet Wan Hu is so curious about the stars that finally, after several unsuccessful attempts, he finds a way to travel among them.

Conflict ensnares emily when the Stockwells, a wealthy southern family, come to stay at the Inn with their slave.

Set in Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1695, Bridie has to overcome suspicions by the colony that she is practicing witchcraft.

Awaiting her fiance+a7''s return from World War II, Grace MacKenzie finds strength in managing her family''s inn and is heartbroken when Jimmy returns a changed man, bragging of his wartime heroics and insisting that she give up her own dreams. Original.

Struggling with financial difficulties due to the Prohibition and her brother''s wish to make the inn into a speakeasy, Claire MacKenzie is drawn into a mystery regarding the murder of the town drunk and fears her brother may be involved. Original.

In 1855 two thirteen-year-old girls, one white and one black, run away from a southern farm and make the difficult journey north to freedom, living to recount their story forty-one years later to two similar young girls.

Illus. in full color. When Chin Yu Min''s wealthy husband drowns, her life of idleness comes to an end--until she meets a mysterious ginger cat fishing with his long tail. Striking illustrations complement this original folktale of a haughty widow whose life is transformed by friendship.

Hugh wants to seek his fortune in the city but first he must find a way to pay the toll-taker at the bridge.

Two sisters and their best friends decide to form a pet-sitting business.

If Pets, Inc., doesn''t get more organized their business will be in danger. As much as Tina loves animals, too many pets means too many problems.

Explains how to compile records in an efficient way.

Jenny Sawyer does not realize the responsibility she is taking on when she enthusiastically accepts an assignment to babysit a chimp named Pansy.