Convinced that the fatal accident she witnessed at the basketball game was not accidental, thirteen-year-old Chelsey, a paraplegic, and her unusual friend Jack join forces to prove it was a deliberate murder....
T.J.'s eccentric Uncle Ainsley builds a time machine that accidently brings a pirate from 1690 to the present, and the pirate, Captain Billy, is having such a good time in the modern world that he refuses to return to his own time...
An International Reading Association Children’s Choice: When high school student Holly Baldwin is murdered, her friends decide to consult a Ouija board—with disastrous consequencesWhen her classmates throw a party soon after the brutal mu...
Kids keep notes on their activities and thoughts with this daily journal. Includes check lists, fill-in-the-blank pages and blank space for personal ideas and impressions. As a companion to The Tree House Kids Series, each section begins with a parag...
When the boy Amy is babysitting swears he witnessed a kidnapping, Amy isn’t sure whether she should believe his crazy story
Thirteen-year-old Amy Whipple is forced to babysit the son of her dad’s most important client, and she i...
HERE LIES THE BUGMAN. WOE TO ANYONE WHO WAKES HIM. Janet didn't mean to disturb the Bugman. It was an accident. She was just mowing the lawn when she ran over his tombstone. Now insects attack her everywhere she goes. Wasps, bees, ants. Even a ...
A wonderful short story collection starring the husband and wife team's favorite creatures-cats. Including an introduction written by Ed Gorman, this collection includes stories by Nancy Pickar, Carole Nelson Douglas, Wendi Lee, Mat Coward, and Joan...
LIFE AS A SIXTH-GRADE DORK: COMEDY OR TRAGEDY? Now that Jerry Flack is sixth-grade class president, he can't wait to come up with cool things for his class. In order to raise money, Jerry and his friends decide to put to use what they're learning ...
Twelve-year-old Charlie Nebraska wants two things he can’t get: to make the local baseball team and to have life to return to the way it was before his father died two years earlier in the Korean War.
When Charlie meets Luther Peale, a stranger ...
At his new school, Jerry Flack is determined to stop being a dork and start being a cool guy -- but does this science nerd really have what it takes to be popular? Jerry Flack is starting middle school in a new town where no one knows him and he can ...
Can geeky Jerry Flack win the election for class president, running against the most popular boy around? For the first time in his life, Jerry Flack is OK with being a dork. He has fun new friends, he's on the school science team, and he even has a g...
Lizard Flanagan is stunned when she is chosen as a model for the local fashion show -- this tomboy in a dress has her work cut out for her When Lizard Flanagan finds out about a trip to Wrigley Field to see the Chicago Cubs play -- for only fifty dol...
In her first year of middle school, tomboy Lizard Flanagan feels left out -- her friends are growing up, but all Lizard wants is to stay the same Twelve-year-old Lizard Flanagan can't believe it when her best friend, Mary Ann, wears a skirt on their ...
When his uncle invents a time machine that can summon people from the past, T.J. has his hands full with a seventeenth-century pirateT.J. O’Brien witnesses a break-in behind the library. But when he sees the burglar -- a real, live pirate -- he rea...
After witnessing the murder of a classmate by local bullies, Julia is threatened to keep the act secret and fears telling the truth to the police, but things become more complicated when she receives an ominous note from the dead boy...
An International Reading Association Young Adult Choice: When a night in a graveyard with her friends turns fatal, Kelly knows it’s up to her to find the killer—before the killer finds herNew to town, Kelly reluctantly agrees when he...