Marion Dane Bauer

Each of these stories is original, each is by a noted author for young adults, and each honestly portrays its subject and theme--growing up gay or lesbian, or with gay or lesbian parents or friends. Includes: "Michael's Little Sister" / C. S. Adler "Dancing Backwards" / Marion Dane Bauer "Winnie and Tommy" / Francesca Lia Block "Am I Blue" / Bruce Coville "Parents Night" / Nancy Garden "Three Mondays in July" / James Cross Giblin "Running" / Ellen Howard "We Might as Well Be Strangers" / M. E. Kerr "Hands" / Jonathan London "Holding" / Lois Lowry "The Honorary Shepherds" / Gregory Maguire "Supper" / Lesléa Newman "50% Chance of Lightning" / Cristina Salat "In the Tunnels" / William Sleator "Slipping Away" / Jacqueline Woodson "Blood Sister" / Jane Yolen

"Land of the Buffalo Bones" is the diary of Mary Rodgers, known as Polly. Promising religious freedom and fertile land, Polly's father, Reverend Rodgers, moves their Baptist community from England to the Minnesota prairie. After a treacherous journey across the sea and across this country, Polly finds that it is no paradise at all. Written with incredible heart and compassion, insight and sensitivity, Marion Dane Bauer has created one of the most sophisticated and courageous characters Dear America has seen.

If you take your trick-or-treat sack and venture into the dark woods on Halloween night, you'll find cat bones, rat bones, and bat bones--and all are looking at YOU! This Halloween adventure is a real treat.

In an astonishing unfurling of our universe, Newbery Honor winner Marion Dane Bauer and Caldecott Honor winner Ekua Holmes celebrate the birth of every child. Before the universe was formed, before time and space existed, there was . . . nothing. But then . . . BANG! Stars caught fire and burned so long that they exploded, flinging stardust everywhere. And the ash of those stars turned into planets. Into our Earth. And into us. In a poetic text, Marion Dane Bauer takes readers from the trillionth of a second when our universe was born to the singularities that became each one of us, while vivid illustrations by Ekua Holmes capture the void before the Big Bang and the ensuing life that burst across galaxies. A seamless blend of science and art, this picture book reveals the composition of our world and beyond -- and how we are all the stuff of stars.