The green lizards and red rectangles are always at war, until enough of them question why they are fighting.

Meet thriteen unusual lizards up close and see what makes them interesting.

Tired of her large, noisy, baboon family, young Leyla runs away and meets a lizard who teaches her to sit alone, be quiet, and do nothing.

"A lizard named Claude lived under a log on the shore of Cupcake Lake ... After Claude settles in, he searches for food, only to find he is terribly afraid of flies, which are in large supply around Cupcake Lake. Before his fears get the best of him, a frog comes along who appears to be uncomfortable around gnats. Shortly, the two realize that, as a team, they can overcome their fears" -- back cover.

PI Tony Lowell of Florida lands in hot water when he flies to New Mexico to help a woman who was raped and beaten by her stalking husband. The husband is a Latino and Latino men in the area consider Lowell is attempting to impose Anglo cultural values. By the author of Night of the Panther.

A local rock festival appears to be going off without a hitch, until the terribly disfigured body of a local girl turns up in a nearby quarry, and the prime suspect becomes charismatic rock star Zeno Vedast.

"Sixth grader Betsy is the one who informs her best friend, Lizard, that thousands of the world's languages are currently threatened by extinction; Betsy's mother is a linguistics professor working frantically to study dying languages before they are lost forever. But it is Lizard who, gripped by the magnitude of this loss, challenges Betsy, "What if, instead of WRITING about dying languages, like your mom, you and I SAVED one instead?" As the girls...