An entertaining guide for building safe and fun forts -- outside, inside, at the beach, and in snow country.Ages 8-14...
Things go from bad to worse for Ima Bean on a day that starts with her breaking Grandpaw's fishing pole by catching a huge catfish, continues with numerous other mishaps, and finally ends with her family forgiving her....
In a special version of the popular Appalachian song that includes music, the Sweets await the arrival of an old friend they have not seen for many years--but when she finally arrives, she looks very different than they remembered....
The newest kid in Macinburg, Kentucky, eleven-year-old Ryan O'Keefe hits on a money-raising, people-meeting plan of charging the other kids an admission fee to see his pet tarantula's spectacular stunts. By the author of
When Jackson Cooper is suddenly sucked into another world, he must find the courage to fight an evil monster before it destroys everything in its path! Even on his birthday, nothing is going right for Jackson Cooper. His friends think he’s a wi...
In an attempt to leave his "wild and wacky guy" reputation behind, Cody Lee Carlson has made a personal pledge to change his ways when he goes back to school as a fifth grader, but after he is seen in his underwear in a local store by a female classm...
When her father tells her that she is going to spend time on a farm in Kentucky helping a sick grandfather she never met, Cassie Bell leaves the city with her brother full of curiosity and questions, especially about the major fight that caused her f...
Impossible! Suicidal! That's thirteen-year-old Cat's reaction to her impulsive, irrepressible cousin Ty's harebrained scheme to spread the ashes of their late fathers at the summit of the same treacherous mountain that claimed both their lives. But w...
Arlo Moore has resolved to break the world record for eating bananas -- consuming seventeen in two minutes should be easy, right? Arlo Moore's favorite book of all time is The Guinness Book of World Records, and as bananas are his favorite food, he h...
Fifth-grader Patrick can't read, but when the new girl next door encourages him to overcome his fears and try, he starts believing he isn't so stupid after all Patrick Lowe has always loved imagining his own fantastic stories of brave knights and dra...
A high-adrenaline story of what it really means to man up. Seventeen-year-old Ren Adams feels lucky to be living with his brother, Levi, and Levi’s girlfriend, Ellie -- a welcome escape from his mother and her fundamentalist husband. Ren fin...