Miggy Brenneman is a wild and reckless seven-year-old with a fierce imagination, hellbent on pushing against the limits of childhood. Ellen is polite, cautious, and drawn to her friend's bright flame. While the adults around them adjust to unstable times and fractured relationships, the girls respond with increasingly dangerous play. When tragedy strikes, all the novel's characters grapple with questions of fate and individual responsibility, none...

A hill covered with rocks and wooden boxes becomes an imaginary town for Marian, her sisters, and their friends.

Relates the experiences of a little girl as she learns to tell the difference between make believe and real life.

Because he spends his time dreaming, the villagers are convinced that Appelemando will never amount to much but in time his dreams change the village and all the people in it.

When August's wild behavior gets him sent outside, he imagines he is a real tiger, able to do whatever he wants, but finds that being wild has disadvantages, too.

The city streets become a jungle, then a desert, as a child forges her way to school, observing and avoiding all the wild animals posing as trees, chimneys, fences, and even fruit.

"A young girl and her dog spend the day playing in her backyard, where with their imagination--and a few helpful props--anything can happen"--

After Mary makes a garden in an old cooking pot and includes in it a boy fashioned out of clay, she finds herself with him in the garden.

A homework-eating owl, an angry piggy bank, several talking sheep, and some snow people help Hilary to make the right decisions at home and at school.

After her brother tells her she is too little to play with him, Lulu, dressed as Ladybug Girl, makes her own fun.