Byars, Betsy Cromer

As each of the five members of the Bean family tries to write a "roof" poem, they come to realize just how nice it is to be a Bean.

As each of the five members of the Bean family tries to write a "roof" poem, they come to realize just how nice it is to be a bean.

When the toughest boy in school swears to kill him, twelve-year-old Mouse finds little help from friends and must prepare for this emergency alone.

When Junior accidentally gets caught in his own coyote trap deep in the woods, he is rescued by the reclusive woman known as Mad Mary and begins an unforgettable adventure.

Two sisters look upon a beach vacation with their father, his woman friend, and her son, as two weeks in the wrong place with the wrong people.

When he builds his raft, a twelve-year-old boy never dreams that it will serve as the sole means of escape for himself and his grandmother when hostile Indians threaten their prairie cabin.

It looks like a long summer for both of them when Charles is sent to spend it with Uncle Coot, but then a colt is born with wings!.

To escape failure, boredom, and loneliness, a young boy plunges with all his imagination into the world of television.

Herculeah meets a murder mystery writer, and has the uneasy feeling that he knows more about murder than he should.

With a young brother in the hospital, a grandfather in jail, and their mother traveling with a rodeo, Maggie and Vern try to settle family problems.