In a realm where magic is as mundane as housework, we meet Rosemary, a tenacious 14-year-old girl who believes she is destined for something greater than washing the family's clothes and chasing brownies out of the mill. As the seventh daughter of a seventh son, her life should be filled with adventure and good fortune, just like the lives of seventh sons of seventh sons. Unfortunately no one else believes that, since a wise woman in the village pronounced her just another daughter. When a...

Floriana and the rest of the garden fairies are scurrying to get ready for the most important spring holiday: Easter. But when the eggs she is supposed to deliver to the Easter bunny are stolen, the holiday might have to be cancelled this year. Can the fairies and their friends save Easter?

When troubled teen Lira is sent from Chicago to live with her grandmother in the North woods of Wisconsin, she thinks it is the worst thing that ever happened to her. But things get even worse when she falls asleep on a garden bench and wakes up in a strange and magical land. In a village, she hears tell of a great wizard who lives in the mountains beyond the great forest and sweeping plains, so she sets off to find him, in hopes he will be able to send her home.On her journey, she...

This book updates and adds to the classic Social Movements of the Sixties and Seventies, showing how social movement theory has grown and changed-from an earlier emphasis on collective behavior, to the resource mobilization approach, and currently to analyses that emphasize culture, ideology, and collective identity. Top social scientists combine insiders' insights with critical analyses to examine a wide variety of social movements active in the most recent U.S. cycle of protest....