Griffith, Helen V

Camping in the Florida Keys with his parents, Jeff finds an abandoned, mistreated dog that he desperately wants for his own.

John's parents try to interest him in a gerbil or chameleon or frog for a pet, but John will be content only with a puppy.

Janetta enjoys her visit to her grandfather, including such highlights as listening to the night insects make music and admiring his cat's new kittens.

After twelve-year-old Nathan's pesky younger brother Ryan claims to have found a dinosaur fossil, they are suddenly transported into a misty world where Ryan's toy dinosaurs are alive.

Nata, the fairy, acts oddly on the first day of summer and the other small insects and animals soon discover the reason.

Three stories about Janetta's friendship with her grandfather.

At first Janetta does not like Grandaddy, his farm, or his animals--but they like her, and as she gets used to them, she likes them too.

After twelve-year-old Nathan's pesky younger brother Ryan claims to have found a dinosaur fossil, they are suddenly transported into a misty world where Ryan's toy dinosaurs are alive.

In a series of journal entries, a young scientist describes his less-than-successful experiments and trips into the past using his neighbor's time machine.

Starting a new life on a farm in the country, Nickel has to adjust to the attentions of a local bully and the appearances of a ghost horse that was supposed to have died in a fire.