Just One More Spell, Please... Ever since kindergarten, Gretchen Nichols has been waiting to star in the school play. Now at last she was in the fifth grade, and ready for the spotlight! So when her teacher chose the new girl, pretty blonde Amy S...
Fifth grader Andrea, getting glasses for the first time, just wants to see better. She has suspicions about the creepy building her ditzy Aunt Bets finds -- and about the white-coated woman, Ms. Weirse, who fits her with strange-looking glasses. Then...
Exploring the hills near his house, Richard sees an odd drawing and hears eerie sounds: "vratch, vratch." Is a strange animal hiding in the sagebrush, or is it Richard’s imagination? What’s the matter with Richard’s new dog? And why is that cre...
A calendar with magic powers? Amy couldn’t resist trying them. What if she could be two places at once? Amy tried to word her calendar wish carefully, and she did appear in two places at once. But her clothes turned up in only one place! Then, when...
How can Alison Harrity beat bully Spencer Cunningham? Alison would have a good chance to win the fifth grade chess tournament -- except that Spencer is cheating his way to the championship. And Alison isn’t pushy enough to stand up to him. Then Mar...
They’re really on the Titanic! Matt and Emily's great-grandfather is an inventor, and he's just created the greatest invention of all -- a way to travel through time. He plans to return to the Titanic, which he sailed on as a boy, and try to sa...
They're about to join the American Revolution! Matt and Emily's grandfather has invented a way to travel back in time. Now Matt, Emily, and Matt's best friend Jonathan are about to take a trip: to the night the American Revolution began. They a...
When their grandfather invents a time machine, Matt and Emily, accompanied by their scientific genius friend Jonathan, journey back to the night when President Lincoln was shot in the hopes of preventing the assassination. Original....
Nine-year-old Andrea orders wingsguaranteed to fly!through an ad in her comic book. Incredibly, they work. This is the beginning of her exciting and disturbing adventures with the wings, culminating in a long flight and a difficult decision. A fast-p...
This story begins with Mariamne, a vulnerable girl who knows little of the ways of the world. Much as she wants to be in control of her own destiny, she soon learns she has no such power. She must do as her father and brother see fit, and when traged...
One of the most popular series ever published for young Americans, these classics have been praised alike by parents, teachers, and librarians. With these lively, inspiring, fictionalized biographies -- easily read by children of eight and up -- toda...
Fifth-grader Alison loves Sharkey, her adopted stray cat. But where did his mysterious collar come from, and why is he acting so weird? At the same time, Alison's best friend, Denise, seems to be ditching her for a mean but "popular" girl. Can Ali...
It's 1773, and Boston is in political turmoil. As tension rises between England and the colonies, lines are being drawn between the Loyalists and the Patriots. And Sally Gifford, a shoemaker's daughter, finds herself on the opposite side from her bes...
In this delightful and touching story, three endangered creatures land in a New England village:•The Cat (humans give him various names, but to himself he is the only Cat who matters) has just been wrongfully evicted from his comfortable first ...