Krensky, Stephen

When Buster impulsively drops a Cybertoy into Arthur's backpack in the drugstore one day, he feels so guilty that he finally confesses to his friend and they try to return the popular toy before anyone else finds out.

While visiting his grandfather, Paddy hears a story about monsters on the radio and is sure they are coming to the house to get him, but Pop has an idea sure to stop them--or is it?.

In 1735 in New York City, a young printer's apprentice learns about the importance of freedom of speech when the printer Peter Zenger is arrested and tried for writing articles criticizing the government.

Although each child is making a mess of his or her own, they all deny responsibility for the mud being tracked through the house.

Simple Simon plays detective as he becomes involved with a variety of nursery rhyme characters in his attempt to locate two missing blind mice.

Relates some of the exploits of Paul Bunyan, a lumberjack said to be taller than the trees whose pet was a blue ox named Babe.

A retelling of a Native American folktale about a coyote that tries to steal summer from Old Woman who keeps it tied up in a bag.

Relates some of the exploits of Pecos Bill, the extraordinary cowboy who was raised by coyotes, rode a mountain lion, and used a rattle snake as a rope.

In 1814, when their father leaves them in charge of the Scituate lighthouse outside of Boston, two teenaged sisters devise a clever way to avert an attack by a British warship patrolling the Massachusetts coast.

The Wynd family pit their forces against a group of witches with a ghastly plan to turn the town's children into monsters.