Used bookshops often have cats roaming their aisles, sleeping on their book stacks or sleeping on their customers. Here is a novel all about one bookshop and its cats, Stomper and Buglit; and about Kris, a 12-year-old boy who apprentices in the shop. Kris is a foster child getting used to a new family, and the cats in the bookshop are getting used to being fostered for the shelter until their own new families bring them home. Stomper, Buglit and Kris all get into trouble, have some wild adventures, and find out just what having a family really means. This is the first book in the Turning...

You are invited to visit Henrietta Hornsby's Museum of Tragical Hairstyles, Bison World, a haunted bookshop and the mysterious Cafe Sotano. Take a few natural science lessons for the gullible and you'll meet a baby vampire rat, a zombie rabbit, the blue-skinned moaning lilygator and a disco-loving chicken. The author interviews her dog, finds friends living in bowls, conjures up ancient relatives, sails through the center of the earth to see a wind beast's collection of unusual antiques, and learns the secret to growing old. Here you'll find a poem of wintering with bears, and on about the...