Steiner, Barbara A

Samantha Parkington, a compassionate and intelligent girl being raised by her rich grandmother in the early twentieth century, takes her friend Nellie to Piney Point, Grandmary's summer home in the Adirondacks, where they find the lodge to be cursed with accidents.

Jolene Allen and Paka Powell investigate a killing at their high school reunion after the murder weapon is found in Paka's bag.

At the start of the Klondike gold rush of 1897, while traveling through Canada with her father, uncle and friends, twelve-year-old aspiring author Hetty tries to determine the identity of a thief.

Immersed in studying his favorite topic, dinosaurs, Oliver involves his fifth grade class in a campaign to make the stegosaurus the Colorado state fossil and runs afoul of an interfering bully.

Beginning by painting his dog with tiger stripes, ten-year-old Ollie embarks on a series of sometimes disastrous moneymaking ventures to raise funds on behalf of wildlife preservation.

At the start of the Klondike gold rush of 1897, while traveling through Canada with her father, uncle and friends, twelve-year-old aspiring author Hetty tries to determine the identity of a thief.

Turning fourteen in 1946 brings several unwanted changes for Tessa as her long-standing friendship with a black boy is threatened and her parents' separation forces her to choose between living with her mother in the city or staying with her father in the Arkansas woods and hunting for Indian relics.

Reggie Westlake, the quarterback and captain of Stony Bay High School's football team, led his team to the championship two years in a row, raising school spirit higher than ever. But, there's just one thing--Reggie's dead.

A guide to a variety of techniques for keeping a journal and ways to use these in the classroom to encourage students to write about themselves in a personal way.