fiction

Eleven-year-old Orville enters a cooking contest, which he has high hopes of winning with his recipe for chop suey burgers.

Horrible Harry falls in love with Song Lee, and Harry's best friend, Doug, can't stand all that mush.

Herbie's experiences in the third grade include finding bones in the boy's bathroom, wandering away from his class on their field trip, and being promoted to a higher reading group.

The well-known account of how the elephant gets his trunk because of his curiosity about what the crocodile has for dinner.

While helping the police find the owner of a mysterious house with a crooked staircase and an unpredictable robot, Nancy Drew, teen detective, also helps capture a swindler.

Nine-year-old Austin visits his grandmother the summer after his grandfather dies and together they try to come to terms with their loss.

A collection of mini-mysteries in which the reader must decipher the clues to learn which of Mr. Boddy's six guests committed a crime.

Collection of mini-mysteries based on the game Clue. Mr. Boddy invites his six best friends over for the weekend, and the crimes begin to happen.

Lucas thinks his summer vacation is ruined when Mom hires a French au pair to watch over Lucas and his two-year-old twin brothers.

Because Nora and her brother live in an apartment, personal privacy, making friends, and finding places to play are sometimes a problem.