When Mr. Reez's quiet and ordinary life is interrupted by a large sneeze that blows him out the window, across the street, and to many other exciting places, he is glad when another large sneeze blows him back home where he can resume his ordinary ex...
All of Emily_s friends have someone special to take them to the ice cream parlor, or the ballet, or the park. Now that her mother is busy with the new baby, Emily doesn_t have anyone to entertain her -- no uncles or big sisters or aunts. Emily sets o...
Shortlisted for the 2005-2006 Red Cedar Book Award, Fiction
Selected by the Pennsylvania School Librarians Association as one of the PSLA YA Top Forty Fiction Titles 2003
The prospect of spending summer vacation sailing in the Grenadin...
On a rugged mountain in the center of Italy stands an ancient Benedictine monastery. It is January 1944, and Monte Cassino, the mountain on which the monastery stands, becomes the staging ground for one of the most fiercely fought battles of World Wa...
Kingsport, a small town on the shores of Lake Ontario, is struggling through the fall and winter of 1941 in the aftermath of the Great Depression. For fifteen-year-old Neil, life is simple and routine, until his favorite uncle, Chester, suddenly dies...
A death, a curse, a ghost, nasty people . . . an excellent new mystery!Intrigue. An eccentric millionaire. A woman’s disappearance. A child’s skeleton. A ghost. A towering castle. A secret tunnel. All of these and more make up this compelling new...
During World War II, a German agent landed in Canada from a U-boat. Curtis Parkinson has used this true historical event to tell a fast-paced, exciting story. Sixteen-year-old Scott and his friend Adam find summer jobs as deckhands on the Rapids Prin...