Alamosa Public Library

Meg Murry can't help but be worried when her six-year-old brother, Charles Wallace, announces there are dragons in the vegetable garden. He's so bright, and so different from other kids, he's getting bullied at school, and he is also strangely, seriously ill. But Charles Wallace is right about the dragons - actually a friendly entity who has come to help Charles Wallace fight his sickness, and to take Meg and her friend Calvin O'Keefe on a terrifying,...

The Dog is a story for young children, and for anyone who has ever owned a pet. But most of all, it shows how important animal companionship is for children. The warmth of animal friends helps make life worth living, especially when times are tough.

A miser learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future.

BOARD BOOK. A fashionable way to introduce a toddler to the world of classic literature. With clever, simple text paired with stylish design and illustrations by Sugar design studio's Alison Oliver. A must for every savvy parent's nursery library. 3 yrs+

Share the comforting rituals, tender care, and unexpected laughter that fill a child's sick days.

Amazing Grace is a book about the hearts of children who grow up in the South Bronx - the poorest congressional district of our nation. Without rhetoric, but drawing extensively upon the words of children, parents, and priests, this book does not romanticize or soften the effects of violence and sickness. One fourth of the child-bearing women in the neighborhoods where these children live test positive for HIV. Pediatric AIDS, life-consuming fires,...

Because she has been very ill and weak, River cannot join in the dancing at this year's tribal powwow, she can only watch from the sidelines as her sisters and cousins dance the celebration--but as the drum beats she finds the faith to believe that she will recover and dance again.

A child lay gravely ill. His parents, on opposite sides of the hospital bed, pray for a miracle. Jennie and Michael Stratton's marriage fell apart, leaving them both devastated and alone. Yet now, as Michael sits holding his son's small hand, he finally understands what it is to believe. Jennie struggled to resolve her feelings for the stubborn man she'd married. But their brave little boy needs the strength of both his parents united in love. They...