Hiser, Constance

Fourth-grader James is resigned to his mother's healthy but boring lunches until he gets a very unusual lunchbox for his birthday.

Fourth-grader James is resigned to his mother's healthy but boring lunches until he gets a very unusual lunchbox for his birthday.

James and the gang are busy with spring baseball practice until James's dog, Tag, whom they use for third base, disappears.

Getting a part in the sixth-grade play doesn't keep Jill from being jealous of the attention her younger sister gets from her repeated participation in beauty pageants.

James and his friends start a summer pet-sitting business and are dismayed when their hard-earned cash starts to disappear from the money box.

James and the gang are busy with spring baseball practice until James's dog, Tag, whom they use for third base, disappears.

Abby buys a one-of-a-kind doll that not only tells her answers to her homework and what is for dinner, but also helps her find a fourth-grade classmate who is in trouble.

Having been turned into a werepoodle by the bite of his neighbor's dog, Jonathan must find a missing wolfbane chewbone or be doomed to remain a beast forever.

James and his friends turn the old Hathaway house into a haunted house to scare Mean Mitchell, the class bully, on Halloween night.