Kids feeling jaded? Avi, the man with one name but 1,001 story ideas, offers a fistful of remedies in Strange Happenings: Five Tales of Transformation (Harcourt, $15; ages 8-12). Take the 12-year-old hero of "Bored Tom"--a boy with "few interests, little desire, and almost no energy." Tom lucks into...
For Young Readers
Kids feeling jaded? Avi, the man with one name but 1,001 story ideas, offers a fistful of remedies in Strange Happenings: Five Tales of Transformation (Harcourt, $15; ages 8-12). Take the 12-year-old hero of "Bored Tom"--a boy with "few interests, little desire, and almost no energy." Tom lucks into...