Babbitt, Natalie

The Prime Minister is compiling a dictionary and when no one at court can agree on the meaning of delicious, the King sends his twelve-year-old messenger to poll the country.

The new tutor at Goody Hall is pleased with his job but can't help feeling there is something peculiar about the household.

When eleven-year-old Jenny goes to stay with her widowed grandmother who lives by the seaside, she learns a great deal about the nature of love and the ways of the sea.

With his mother's help, Mylo discovers a way to conquer his fear of the dark.

A millionaire offers twelve-year-old Joe Casimir "a perfect life," filled with wealth. But accepting means Joe would have to give up his own dreams for his future.

Everyone else in the village is afraid of the creature who supposedly dwells at the top of Kneeknock Rise but young Egan investigates for himself.

The Tuck family is confronted with an agonizing situation when they discover that a ten-year-old girl and a malicious stranger now share their secret about a spring whose water prevents one from ever growing any older.

Because he is too nice to be a pirate, Jack Plank looks for a new career, but each night he tells tales of why the one job he looked into that day is wrong.