Barnaby Sharpe becomes a hero of the War of 1812 when, as he sits in a tree hoping to catch sight of an approaching British warship, he has an idea that could save a Maryland town from the ship's cannons...
A baby dragon...named SPIKE?!! Alastair and his friends have decided that this will be the best summer ever -- at least that's what they were thinking when Alastair fell off the dog-powered skateboard train and broke his collarbone. Now Alastair...
When her family moves to the Virginia countryside, eleven-year-old Melinda, her older brother, and their new friend Dan work together to solve the mystery of a Civil War-era ghost who is haunting their house...
Through a series of poetic narratives, three girlfriends explore the world of the early 1950s, a microcosm of dog weddings, a visiting cousin with a secret, the courting couple across the street, and a myriad of other topics, on a hot summer day in G...
Zarah hates to miss ballet classes. What is she going to do all summer without electricity, microwave, refrigerator, INDOOR PLUMBING? Why does her young cousin Loomis rake dirt all day? And why is that chicken so frizzled?"A sophisticated New Yorker ...
On Christmas Eve day, 1822, Clement Clarke Moore struggled to write a surprise for his children. While traveling to lower Manhattan from his farm, Chelsea, many thoughts ran through his head. What would his children enjoy more?a poem or a story? The ...
Courtney Carmichael, her younger brother, and her depressed, newly-divorced, out-of-work mother move from New Hampshire to Florida into a decrepit house on Cemetery Street, where spooky occurences make the family feel increasingly unsettled....
Fourth-grader Jerry Johnson loves soccer and dreams of being a star someday like his hero Pele until the telephone rings as he's leaving for the playground and second-grader, Sherita complicates his life and his game. He likes her but she asks too ma...
Taylor has come to Swain's Fancy to spend the summer with her father and his new wife, Sylvia, and her children, Nicole and Peter. She has to share a room with Nicole, who thinks Taylor is about as welcome as Lyme disease. But the stepsisters' enmity...
Life is hard enough for Abby without a ghost. Her father, a soldier, is missing in action, and she and her mother have had to move in with relatives in rural New York State, far from her Florida home. Her cousin Chad and his friends seem to hate her,...
India was all the things Laurie had heard about and more â€" too much more. She couldn’t process the seething, glistening, teeming, glaring melee. She needed to rethink this spur-ofâ€"the-moment trip the summer after graduation when a crime is comm...
Things had changed a lot in Alastair's life since he found the little blue dragon he named Spike. Now it was time to start back to school and Alastair was faced with entering the fourth grade with the dreaded Ms. Cassowary as his teacher. All his luc...
Alastair McKnight and his Uncle George set off on a camping trip to the Green Slime Swamp to search for proof that the legendary Lizardman actually exists! Alastair brings his best friend and smuggles his pet dragon, Spike. To the boys horror, their ...
Digby, a London street dog, hopes he can find a crumb of food and maybe a warm place to sleep around the next corner. Instead, he finds himself face-to-face with the Great Detective himself, Sherlock Holmes Digby is thrilled. He decides to prove his...
Did you ever wonder where Sherlock Holmes found the Persian slipper he keeps his shag tobacco in? Had Holmes and Watson ever met before that day at St. Barts? Did Holmes really believe in curses when he said he did? Dr. John Watson reveals the answer...
Did you ever wonder where Sherlock Holmes found the Persian slipper he keeps his shag tobacco in? Had Holmes and Watson ever met before that day at St. Barts? Did Holmes really believe in curses when he said he did?Dr. John Watson reveals the answers...