Byars, Betsy Cromer

After attempting to save his ex-babysitter from wife abuse, Cracker Jackson gains an adult insight into the sadness of failed heroics.

After attempting to save his ex-babysitter from wife abuse, Cracker Jackson gains an adult insight into the sadness of failed heroics.

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.

A compilation of short stories and extracts from novels about turning points in life, by twenty-six authors including Judy Blume, William Saroyan, L.M. Montgomery, and Roald Dahl.

A teenage girl gains new insight into herself and her family when her mentally handicapped brother gets lost.

Herculeah Jones and her bumbling pal, Meat, investigate the murder of a palm reader.

A panel of three judges has to decide which dog out of eight finalists deserves to win the title of My Hero.

The intrepid Herculeah Jones helps her mother, a private investigator, solve a puzzling and frightening case.

While describing her humorous adventures with a blacksnake, Betsy Byars recounts childhood anecdotes and explains how she writes a book.

Herculeah Jones gets involved in another dangerous mystery when she goes to visit old Mr. Shivers Hunt, resident of the forbidding Hunt House.