"From Percival Everett-a recipient of the NBCC Lifetime Achievement Award and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Booker Prize, and numerous PEN awards-comes James, a retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby...

Follows pre-teen neighbors Dylan and Kylie, who decide to run away from their disfunctional homes on Christmas Eve and set off in search of Dylan's brother on the streets of inner-city Dublin.

Where the wild things are: Max has an active imagination and will throw a fit if others don't go along with what he wants. Max throws a tantrum and runs away from home when his mother pays more attention to her boyfriend than to him. Wearing his wolf costume at the time, Max not only runs away physically, but runs toward a world in his imagination. This world is inhabited by large wild beasts, including Carol who has the same temperament as Max. Instead...