Thatcher Hill's summer job is helping his uncle with his seaside museum of curiosities. Thatcher is bored with his job until a mysterious girl steals an artifact from the museum and it's his job to retrieve it. Then he learns that the thief is a princess of the lost city of Atlantis and her people are in trouble.
Uno builds a home and garden in the magnificent forest among the playful puddlebuts and feathered frinklepods, but as the place becomes more and more popular, it is overtaken by tourists and buildings until the forest and animals seem to disappear altogether.
fabulous lives of the creepy, the revolting, and the undead
Slade, Arthur G
2005
Presents a collection of humorous entries that describe the characteristics and lifestyle of various monsters, including Dracula, Golem, Medusa, and Frankenstein.
While fifteen-year-old Ellie tries to find her missing eleven-year-old brother, Danny, in alternating chapters Danny dreams of a parallel quest in a fantasy world of dragons and shapeshifters that he and Ellie knew as children.
During the California Gold Rush of 1848, ten-year-old Estrella, who runs so fast she is called "la Estrella corriente," the running star, faces a group of greedy ghosts who have stolen her exotic pets to work in their gold mine.
Matt, a young cabin boy aboard an airship, and Kate, a wealthy young girl traveling with her chaperone, team up to search for the existence of mysterious winged creatures reportedly living hundreds of feet above the Earth's surface.