Seabrooke, Brenda

As she establishes an increasingly close relationship with a couple on a nearby ranch, a young girl comes to realize that there is nothing left between herself and her alcoholic mother.

A collection of narrative poems about three girls growing up in the South during the 1950s and what happens when they discover boys.

Courtney Carmichael, her younger brother, and her depressed, newly-divorced, out-of-work mother move from New Hampshire to Florida into a decrepit house on Cemetery Street, where spooky occurrences make the family feel increasingly unsettled.

When Wilfong the wolf fails to blow down the house of the Pygg brothers, he stays outside their door all winter learning their games and listening to their jokes and stories, but although he claims to be reformed, the pigs are reluctant to offer friendship.

A young girl shares a special visit with her grandparents in the countryside.

While recuperating from a skateboard accident, Alastair finds an unusual new pet in Mr. Hobson's petunia garden.

When her family moves to the Virginia countryside, eleven-year-old Melinda, her older brother, and their new friend Dan work together to solve the mystery of a Civil War-era ghost who is haunting their house.

At Christmas time in 1944, while staying with disagreeable cousins in New York State because her father is in Europe fighting in World War II, eleven-year-old Abby discovers that her relatives' old house is haunted by the ghost of a girl from the Civil War era.

After three years in a barbarous orphanage, Nicholas is raised in near-isolation in a castle, where he is watched every moment, prevented from reading or seeing the outside world, and given "treatments" designed to retrieve some mysterious, forgotten bit of information from his brain.

Eleven-year-old Taylor spends the summer with her father and his new family in a historic house in West Virginia and, while contending with hostility from her stepsister Nicole, attempts to solve the mystery of ghosts who haunt the site.