New Releases by Richard Cuffari

Disguised as a boy, ten-year-old Ellen Toliver manages to smuggle a secret message to General Washington during the Revolutionary War.

With the help of his friends Rory, a wandering kangaroo rat, restores a model of a Fairey Fox airplane to fly on his travels and foils a flock of starlings that has overrun the town.

Devoted to the revolutionary cause, sixteen-year-old Sarah finds it difficult to accept the presence of a young British officer convalescing in their Concord house.

When Jackie Robinson first stepped up to bat for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 194 7, he faced a long, hard battle. People called him horrible names. Pitchers aimed the ball right for his head. And players used the spikes on their baseball shoes to cut his legs. Jackie Robinson didn''t back down. As the first black player in the white major leagues, he had made up his mind to play ball-and to open baseball''s doors to all black men. This is the dramatic story of his triumph.

The life of a little fir tree who, when discarded, recalls with nostalgia its two glorious moments--being a beautiful fir and being a brightly-lit Christmas tree.