Van Leeuwen, Jean

A 17-year-old minister's daughter who feels her world is crashing down suffers an emotional breakdown which eventually forces her to make some difficult decisions.

A fictionalized account of the true life journey made by nine-year-old Mary Ellen Todd and her family from their home in Arkansas westward over the Oregon Trail in 1852.

In comfortable residence at Macy's during the Christmas season, Merciless Marvin the Magnificent and his gang are convinced that the store's Santa Claus has been kidnapped and determine to save him.

Follows a family's emigration by prairie schooner from the East, across the plains to Kansas.

Five more adventures of Amanda Pig and her family, in which noisy cousins come to visit and Father gets a stuffed toy for his birthday.

Oliver and Amanda Pig's Halloween activities include making their costumes, getting a pumpkin for a jack-o'-lantern, and going trick-or-treating.

Samantha Slayton's eleventh year includes losing her last baby teeth, towering over every boy in dance school, and being mortified by everything her mother does.

Luke and his family take their annual trip to their grandparents' lakeside cabin where they spend time fishing, camping, and hiking.

Samantha Slayton's eleventh year includes losing her last baby teeth, towering over every boy in dance school, and being mortified by everything her mother does.

When her father leaves, Twig feels isolated from her older brother and her mother as they all try to cope with the change in their lives.