Jill and Gwen do some sleuthing when Jill's basset hound disappears.A boundary-breaker, a story about girls that boys will readit's too much fun to miss.Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books....
Jill's excited about entering her basset hound, Fletcher, in the big dog show, so she and her best friend, Gwen, go to the library to learn about training dogs.
But they're puzzled and surprised to find that many pictures are cut out of the sp...
"The new neighbor is weird," Sam whispers to Robert.
"He could be the real Frankenstein."
So Sam and Robert decide to spy on their strange, scowling neighbor, Mr. Frank. First th...
Jody was organizing a rock concert to raise money to rebuild the burned-down school stadium. She had invited Michael Harper, a rock star and a recent graduate of her high school, to perform. But nothing went right with Jody's plans! Someone spilled r...
A Jody and Jake mystery. A race to the finish! Jody and Jake are excited about their new jobs helping out at the stables of Mr. Barrett, a famous racehorse trainer and his jockey son, Peter. Jody is looking forward to a wonderful summer until a se...
When the words Werewolf Power mysteriously appear on the school blackboard, all the children are frightened. Only days before Halloween there are terrifying screams and haunting sounds surrounding the classroom. Jill and Gwen know there's something q...
Many people have asked the question, "Does Dracula go to summer camp?" But nobody has lived to find the answer. At least that's what Robert's counselor tells him on his first night at Camp Hunter Creek. So far, the only Dracula anybody's seen is R...
Some rules are meant to be broken! Christi Bay could sing and act better than almost anyone else in her school. Phil Grey, a famous actor and Christi's idol, arrives in town to direct a production of OLIVER using local kids for the street urchins....
Shortly after sixteen-year-old Dani volunteers to work undercover in a police investigation of illegal liquor sales to teenagers, she finds herself being framed as a accomplice in a liquor store holdup....
Cindi, Lauren, Darlene, and Jodi are all "acorns", members of the junior team at the Evergreen Gymnastic Academy. Senior gymnast Becky is making things difficult for the acorns with her annoying practical jokes. But when she gives Lauren some false a...
Working at the Dome, a sports arena in New York City, during a pre-Olympic skating exhibition, Kelly meets two competitive male skaters whose lives become threatened by a string of mysterious accidents....
With her mom running for city council, Lauren has no time to take stock of the events in her life--especially her crush on her new gymnastics coach--but with the help of friends, family, and even the new coach, Lauren discovers the truth....
When the boys' gymnastics team sets up shop in the gym right alongside the girls', the Pinecones flip over their cute new neighbors, but Cindi is sure that having the boys around will be no good for Pinecone team spirit...
Unhappy about her mother's impending marriage to Barking Barney, the pet store owner, and her own impending acquisition of a new stepbrother, Nick the Pest, Jodi takes her frustration out on her gymnastics team...
When Lauren has the opportunity to meet Heidi Ferguson, the world-class gymnast, she cannot understand why Heidi is so unhappy and why all she worries about is staying thin, until Heidi ends up in the hospital...
Everyone is thrilled when Dimitri Vickorskoff, the great Hungarian gymnastics coach, agrees to help out the Evergreen Gymnastics Academy, but Lauren is convinced that he makes her work harder than the others...
When her prolonged antics at practice suddenly hurt her standing on the gymnastics team, Jodi is determined to prove that she can compete with the best of them, but her sudden resolve could alienate other team members. Original....
Jill has the greatest plan for surprising Gwen on her birthday. Even Jill's dog, Fletcher, bribed with a salami slice, is ready to do his part. Then queer things start to happen. First the party invitations disappear; next a painting vanishes. The...
Hoping to attract the attention of the most popular boy in school, Lucy cheats on a test so that she can brag to him about it and is dismayed when her plan backfires. By the author of The Gymnasts series. Reprint....
Jackie is a teacher’s nightmare. . . She's smart-alecky in class. Her handwriting is crummy, and her spelling's even worse. She spent most of second and third grade going to the principal's office. And Jackie expects fourth grade with Ms. Sugarm...
"Second-grader Brian and his sister Penny, a kindergartner who he calls Pea Brain, [try] to discover who is undermining School Spirit Week. Readers will have a good chance of solving this mystery, which features...the lively, but fundamentally good-n...
Realizing his talent for soccer, Brian quickly becomes the victim of rumors that credit him with employing a private coach, having an athletic grandfather, and taking steroids, and his sleuthing younger sister comes to the rescue. Original....
Brian and Pea Brain go to a science fair in order to do research for their dinosaur project for school and come across a mammoth mystery that they need to solve in order to save their science project from ruin. Reprint....
While staying in Atlantic City for the summer, Lily Potter concocts her own tour of the city, a tour that includes the haunted side of town and the eerie stories and cycle of death surrounding the Gurney mansion....
When snacks begin to mysteriously disappear from classroom lunch bags, an invisible boy and his friends seek out the culprit, in a third installment in the Invisible Inc. Hello Reader series. Original....
When the class goes online to invite their favorite author, D. B. Spooks, to visit their school, someone starts sending scary messages over the school computer, and their invisible companion must help to save the day. Original....
The Rebels plan a daring attack on the Empire's greatest weapon, the Death Star. While Han Solo travels to Endor to disable the Death Star's defense shield, Luke must face not only Darth Vader but the Emperor himself! ...
Invisible Inc., the mystery-solving trio with an invisible friend, is back on the case. They must help Justin find his missing karate belt--he can't do anything right in karate lass without it. Full color...
Sam's little brother, Robert, begins his trick as a practical joke, but when Sam begins to grow hair and turn into a werewolf, both Robert and Sam know things are getting completely out of control. Reprint....
On vacation in New Mexico, Gwen and Jill discover an old barn believed to be haunted by a wild horse, and as strange happenings begin to occur, the girls find themselves curious and decide to take a look behind the barn's padlocked doors....
A; Becuase they taste funny. BOBBY'S situation is no joke. His constant clowning has the principal threatening to send him to the School for Intervention, which is just one step away from reform school. It seems like Bobby's headed down the same r...
Everybody is ahead of my shadow! Everybody in the third grade knows you don't tell Jake what to do if you want to survive in the same classroom as him -- everybody except Sally, the new student. When Jake teases Sally about being short, their war ...
The day that ballroom dancing invades William T. Harris Middle School comes with no warning. And once the cute new dance teacher, Mr. DePalma, sweeps into Rebecca's life, being able to dance becomes one of her biggest priorities. Paired with her frie...
When Exterminator dies, Robert is so crushed, he can't even talk about it. It doesn't help that his older brother, Sam, keeps telling dead-gerbil jokes. Things get even wor...
Ready-for-Chapters Who's Got The Bunny? Fletcher's no ordinary basset hound. In the first place, his markings form a map of the world. In the second place, his best friend is...a flea. Fletcher and his flea pal, Jasper, have survived a lot ...
When he finds out that his brother's friend, Vlad, is coming to New York from Romania, Robert is worried because he fears that Vlad is a vampire and may be working to turn his brother, Sam, into one too. Reprint....
WARNING: Reading May Be Hazardous To Your Health The principal of Jill and Gwen's school promised to spend the morning on the roof if the kids read one thousand books during their reading marathon -- and they did! Now he's on the roof, and he's go...
Someone's trying to sabotage the masked ball for pets that's celebrating the opening of the new park in town, but in spite of evidence pointing to a young park ranger, Fletcher refuses to believe she's the culprit. Simultaneous....
Elvis Lives! Jill and Gwen are excited about the pet talent show coming up at their school -- after all, this is the first year they've had a pet. The problem is, Fletcher's talents are pretty much limited to eating salami and sleeping. But when J...
From the author of Frankenstein Moved in on the Fourth Floor, Tackling Dad is the story of 13-year-old Cassie's struggle to make her father understand that even though she's a girl, she can still play football -- just as he did.
...Phillipa has always loved Agatha Christie mysteries, but it’s not until the new captain’s son and some interesting guests come aboard the cruise ship where she lives (and her parents work), that she finally gets a chance to do some sleuthing of h...
It's been six months since their last adventure aboard the S.S. Excalibur and Philipa and her friend Philip (who happens to be the son of the ship's captain) are both excited to meet the ship's new assistant cruise director, Herby Twining. Herby is a...
A young detective and her partner, an amateur magician, solve a case involving missing bunnies, a pink sock ghost, and a remote-control squash that gobbles like a Thanksgiving turkey. Includes instructions for performing four magic tricks. ...