Hyperion Paperbacks for Children

Don't even think of starting this book unless you're sitting in a comfortable chair and have lots of time. Afast-paced, impossible-to-put-down adventure awaits as the young orphan Peter and his mates are dispatched to an island ruled by the evil King Zarboff. They set sail aboard the Never Land, a...

laugh Attack "The School Yard Elastic-Powered Net Bomb!" A crowd gathered as quickly as ants on a dropped ice cream cone. The name of the new trick play was whispered excitedly around the circle of students. The Monday Night Football Club was already famous for their weekly sleep-overs to watch...

CHAPTER ONEBitter wind from Crazy Peak tugged at the sagebrush as fourteen-year-old Elliot Schroeder coaxed his big buckskin horse back toward the ranch. He rode easily as if his short frame had grown from the saddle. Across his lap, he held a kicking newborn calf. The morning wind gusted. Elliot...

ENGLAND , a . d . 1377 "In the midst of hfe comes death"How often did our village priest preach those words. Yet I have also heard that "in the midst of death comes life"If this he a riddle, so was my life. ill' r T HE DAY AFTER MY MOTHER died, the priest and I wrapped her body in a...