Orem Library

Four wild stories that are not only humorous and entertaining but also teach valuable lessons about human nature.

Jane Gable first sees young Milo Turner, member of the first black family ever to move to her area of East Tennessee, on the day her abusive father is buried. When tragedy strikes the Turner household, the Gable family is asked to make a decision that could rip their world apart.

George won't let any of the other children into his cardboard box house, but when the tables are turned, he finds out how it feels to be excluded.

Three astronauts land on an planet very much like Earth, except that here apes rule over humans.

Clancy the cow is a misfit in his herd, but when he proves himself in the annual cow wrestling match, he demonstrates the foolishness of judging by appearances.

Papa Bear learns a lesson in the importance of acceptance when a new family of pandas moves in across the road.

"The Illustrated Man is classic Bradbury--a collection of tales that breathe and move, animated by sharp, intaken breath and flexing muscle. Here are eighteen startling visions of humankind's destiny, unfolding across a canvas of decorated skin--visions as keen as the tattooist's needle and as colorful as the inks that indelibly stain the body. The images, ideas, sounds and scents that abound in this phantasmagoric sideshow are provocative and powerful:...

Everyday life for the Watsons, an African-American family from Flint, Michigan, is drastically changed after they go visit Grandma in Alabama in the summer of 1963.

The villagers are afraid of the "Ghoul." For years, they've tiptoed around the village for fear of disturbing it. The monster doesn't look like them, and it is believed to eat humans. One day, the brave Hassan embarks on a dangerous mission to face the long-feared Ghoul. When Hassan finally meets the Ghoul living on top of the mountain, he discovers that the Ghoul is just as terrified of people as they are of him. Hassan and the Ghoul realize that...