juvenile fiction

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Something might happen

2003
Twitchly Fidget the lemur worries about almost everything until his Aunt Bridget Fidget pays him a visit and shows him another way to live.

Alice the fairy

2004
Alice, a very imaginative little girl, practices her trade as a Temporary Fairy, but still has trouble learning the difficult tricks, such as making her clothes put themselves away.

The lake of tears

2001
Three companions face the hideous guardian of the Lake of Tears in order to keep the Shadow Lord from conquering Deltora.

How to steal a dog

a novel
2007
Living in the family car in their small North Carolina town after their father leaves them virtually penniless, Georgina, desperate to improve their situation and unwilling to accept her overworked mother's calls for patience, persuades her younger brother to help her in an elaborate scheme to get money by stealing a dog and then claiming the reward that the owners are bound to offer.

Fred stays with me!

2007
A child describes how she lives sometimes with her mother and sometimes with her father, but her dog is her constant companion.

Follow the line through the house

2007
Rhyming text invites the reader to search different rooms of a house to find hidden objects.

Rain player

1991
To bring rain to his thirsty village, Pik challenges the rain god to a game of pok-a-tok.

The stranger

1986
The enigmatic origins of the stranger Farmer Bailey hits with his truck and brings home to recuperate seem to have a mysterious relation to the changing season.

Moxy Maxwell does not love writing thank-you notes

2008
Ten-year-old Moxy Maxwell has promised to write twelve thank-you notes by the day after Christmas so that she and her twin brother Mark can go to Hollywood to visit their father, but all her brilliant ideas to help finish the task more efficiently end up creating chaos in the house.

My many colored days

1996
This rhyming story describes each day in terms of a particular color which in turn is associated with specific emotions.

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