Christian, Mary Blount

Three children try to explain to their mother the chain of events that brought havoc to the household during her twenty minute absence.

Mama--looking for mittens, scrubbing the storm windows, and taking Craig ice skating--is really the first sign of winter.

A little boy catches a big turtle but returns it to the pond when he discovers how unhappy the animal is in captivity.

Tormented by the memory of his best friend's suicide, for which he feels partly responsible, seventeen-year-old Gideon struggles to fulfill their shared dream of breaking into the country music business in Nashville.

While on a vacation ski trip, Sebastian, dog detective, and his master John, run into a case of stolen gems.

In Massachusetts in 1636, Goody Sherman begins a 1egal battle over her pig that ends up dividing the legislative department of the colony into two independent branches.

Examines the life of the nineteenth-century woodsman John Colter and describes his experiences accompanying the Lewis and Clark Expedition and, later, as an explorer on his own.

The clever people of Gotham keep the king from building a hunting lodge outside their village by convincing him that they are fools.

Dog detective Sebastian helps his master protect a mystery patient at City Hospital, at a time when an attempted coup has just occurred in a nation friendly to the United States.

A young boy combats summer doldrums by outfitting himself as a secret agent and cooperating with a suspicious character.