Alamosa Public Library

When the family moves to Connecticut, twins James and Laura make new friends and begin a series of unusual adventures after discovering an old well that seems to be magic in their backyard.

Dr. Heywood Floyd travels to Jupiter to find out what happened to the astronauts of the spaceship Discovery and its computer, HAL 9000.

Fifty years after meeting the spirit of Dave Bowman aboard the abandoned Discovery and witnessing the fiery transformation of Jupiter into Earths second sun, 103-year-old Dr. Heywood Floyd boards the luxury spaceship Universe for the historic first landing on the surface of Halley's Comet. At the same time, the Galaxy expedition sets out to probe the evolutionary upheaval on Jupiter's former moon Europa haunted by the fate of a doomed Chinese mission...

A collection of eleven short stories focusing on the everyday adventures of Hispanic young people growing up in Fresno, California.

Describes the history and near-extinction of the American bison or buffalo and its preservation today mainly in parks and preserves.

Describes the life cycle and amazing migratory flight of the monarch butterfly.

Summer camp doesn't seem like much fun when Mark finds out that he is sharing a cabin with a bully from Odyssey and that his best friend Patti has a boyfriend.

Lylah Stuart yearns to escape poverty in the Arkansas hills at the turn of the century, even if it means attending Bible school. On a school-related trip, Lylah steals away from hr classmates and is "discovered" by an actor of dubious character who whisks her away to the big time: New York City.