Meet the Moffats. There is Sylvie, the oldest, the cleverest, and -- most days at least -- the responsible one; Joey, who though only twelve is the man of the house...sometimes; Janey, who has a terrific upside-down way of looking at the world; And R...
Jane is neither the youngest nor the oldest, and so she calls herself the middle Moffat. And she's always in the middle of all the fun, whether it's a fast and furious card game with the oldest inhabitant of Cranbury, or playing the old pump organ an...
"I've got a hundred dresses." Nobody can believe it -- Wanda wears the same old blue dress every day. "A hundred dresses -- all lined up!" If Wanda really does have a hundred dresses, she's certainly keeping them hidden....but why? ...
Meet the marvelous Pyes -- There is Mrs. Pye, the youngest mother in town; Mr. Pye, a famous bird man, who handles all the nation's important bird problems; Rachel Pye, who is so reasonable she can make unreasonable ideas sound like good on...
Kim Chu borrows her father's umbrella without his permission and, when it disappears from the library, she and her best friend follow a mysterious stranger to South Ferry and then onto a Staten Island ferryboat...
This story of two girls trying to banish a witch is “full of wonderful fun, excitement, and humor” (Library Journal). Old Witch likes nothing better than to fly around on her broomstick, crying “Heh-heh!” and casting abracadabras. But ...
There has never been a museum in Cranbury...until now. Among its treasures are the first bike each of the Moffat kids rode, stardust from a meteor that fell to earth, a beautiful painting made by Sylvie, and-most spectacularly-Rufus, the Waxworks Boy...
Nobody believed Hugsy Goode when he prophesied that a tunnel lay beneath the alley until--generations later--Nicholas (alias Copin) and Timothy (alias Tornid) decide to explore. And lo and behold, right under the vine-covered hole outside the house w...
Jimmy McGee is a tiny, leprechaun-like man whose peaceful life is disrupted when he rescues Amy's doll Little Lydia from a monstrous wave that sweeps her off the beach. Can Jimmy find a way to restore Little Lydia to her original state as a "do-nothi...
When barbarians invade Rome, Miranda the cat and her daughter Punka must find a safe place to hide from the chaos. They make their way through the burning city, collecting motherless kittens as they go. At last they reach the Colosseum--but even ther...