Books with author Stephen Rea

Laura is a lady bird who loves eating leaves. She eats them all day long. One morning when Laura is at the top of the garden getting a snack she notices through the window of the house a little girl eating something that is not a leaf! 'I wonder what that food tastes like'! she thinks and decides to find out, Join the happy little bug on her journey from the bottom of the garden and into a house, somewhere she has never been before, in her search for new fluffy food. Does she find it?! Will she like it?!

Convinced that he is a rotten kid and disgusted that his father is still taking physical advantage of his mother even though they are now divorced, sixteen-year-old Marcus finds that a vodka bottle is the only thing to get him through one horrible day toanother.Wealthy, popular Marcus finds his life unraveling until he comes to terms with his drinking problem and begins the slow, difficult road to recovery

Lots of kids think of running away from home. But what's a kid to do when his home runs away from him?That's what happens to twelve-year-old George Honiker when his sister and brother-in-law move out of the Versailles Trailer Park while George is at school. Is it the end of George's world? Well, hardly! For the quick-witted, resourceful, and upwardly mobile George, it's the chance of a lifetime. Faster than you can say "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous," George bunks in with his classmate Rennie Whitfield. Rennie just happens to be the richest kid in town. A motorboat for his birthday. Thoroughbred horses. A butler. Really nice clothes. It's life at the top for George, and he's more than ready to have it all...until he finds that the Whitfields have some very big plans for him, too!Populated with a host of giddy, offbeat characters, Recycling George is a funny, exuberant story that also packs an emotional wallop.

Warsaw Junction has a lot of secrets. Who could guess that Augie Knapp has collected most of them in an old suitcase? No one, until Lydie Rose Meisenheimer blows into town and signs up for sixth grade. Driving a broken-down convertible, wearing a black straw hat, and proclaiming herself Augie's new best friend, she turns his days into embarrassing nightmares. But she also fills his nights with bright-shining visions of Gypsies -- Gypsies who could make Augie's dreams come true . . . if only he'd dare to dream a little harder. This title is included only in Juvenile 10.