Caddie Woodlawn is a real adventurer. She'd rather hunt than sew, plow than bake, and beats her brothers' dares every chance she gets. Caddie is friends with the Indians, who scare most of the neighbors -- neighbors who, like her mother and sisters...
What would you do if you were shipwrecked with four babies in the middle of the ocean? Mary and Jean aren't bothered a bit. Before long, they are all happily settled on a tropical island. There's no problem these two babysitters can't seem to solve a...
Join a Young Boy in His Fantastical AdventureAndy Buckram has many uses for tin cans: keeping worms, bailing the boat, storing screws and washers and nails and whatnots. He has made a few things out of tin cans as well, such as cowbells and even a de...
Caddie Woodlawn is back and there are more frontier adventures to go on in this sequel to the Newbery Medalâ€"winning novel, Caddie Woodlawn!The high-spirited Caddie is back with her lively siblings for some amusing escapades. In these fourteen stori...
Susan, George, and Dumpling have a special life in Midwest City, where they live with their college-professor dad and mystery-writer mom. Not only can they watch the university’s football games from the tower of their house on College Avenue, but n...
Professor Ridgeway is on sabbatical in the South of France -- and the whole family is along for the adventure. Susan has brought her diary to document their vacation fun, but Dumpling isn’t convinced that France can compete with their house with th...
There is so much work for a boy to do in the serious town of Puddling Center that eleven-year-old Willie can’t even go to school. So when Willie meets Professor Petit and his five “Highly Trained Dogs” -- each with its own special talent -- heâ...
Travel Back to a Time of Innocence and AdventureUntil Kirby Mellen was ten nothing very exciting had ever happened to him or his father or his mother or his little sister Bitsy. All of this changes very suddenly with the death of far-distant Uncle Hi...
Immerse Yourself in This Story of Love and Companionship Amidst DeprivationIt is the fall of 1930, and America has plunged into the Great Depression. On a remote dirt road deep in the snowy woods of northern Wisconsin, misfortune forces the impoveris...