juvenile fiction

Five tales recounting the adventures of two best friends, Frog and Toad.

No sooner do Frank and Joe Hardy, America's favorite teen detectives, rescue a family from a flashflood, than they're off on a new top-secret ATAC (American Teens Against Crime) mission. Frank and Joe must go undercover on a new reality TV show called 'Madhouse,' to discover how far the producers are willing to go risking the contestants' lives for the sake of huge ratings. The plot thickens when the producer of Madhouse turns up murdered!.

When a visiting dignitarys daughter is scheduled to attend a party at a horror-themed restaurant in New York City, ATAC agents Joe and Frank Hardy are enlisted as undercover protection! But in a building where anything can happenwhere the walls literally have earscan the Hardy Boys find and stop the assassin before it is too late? .

Written in the style of Dr. Seuss, this adorable adventure is bursting with colorful imagery to heighten a child's imagination and stir creativity. Children will learn much about selfishness, pride, and vanity through the characters of Brawny, Smarty, and Beauty. But most importantly, they will want to be more like Trusty, our hero, who is so eager to help. With self-sacrifice and courage, Trusty is willing to try. Hardcover.

When Mandie Shaw runs away from her log cabin home in 1899, she convinces Cherokee friends to help her escape into the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. After a treacherous journey, they reach the extravagant mansion of Uncle John, only to discover that his ship has been lost at sea. The house staff, headed by caretaker Jason Bond, kindly allows Mandie to remain. When strangers arrive claiming to be the rightful heirs to Uncle John's fortune, Mandie and her new friend Polly find themselves in a race through hidden passages to locate Uncle John's will.

In an upstate New York farming community, high school reporter Hildy Biddle investigates a series of strange occurrences at a house rumored to be haunted.

Fourteen-year-old Cecilia has always known she is the true princess of Suala, but when she and her best friend, Harper, decide to speed up her ascendancy to the throne, they find danger and many imposters who challenge her claim.

In October 1942, seventeen-year-old Helmuth Hubener, imprisoned for distributing anti-Nazi leaflets, recalls his past life and how he came to dedicate himself to bring the truth about Hitler and the war to the German people.

Sam, a shy but creative mouse who lives in a library, decides to write and illustrate his own stories which he places on the shelves with the other library books, and when the children find Sam's stories they all want to meet the author.