Ullman, Barb Bentler

Mary Day's younger brother Albie is mute, but he can send her telepathic messages. One day on winter break, he sends an alarming message: bad order. There is a spot in the woods giving off a red mist that causes negative thoughts. Mary, Albie, Mary's friend Brit, and her brother Lars learn from three aliens that there is a leak in the dimensional universe and unless Albie repairs it, evil thoughts will take over the whole world's population.

After her grandmother dies, Zelly and her mother move to tiny Plunkit, where Zelly searches for her estranged father and helps the Nutfolk save their home from developers.

After her parents divorce and she moves to the country with her mother, fourth-grader Willa Jane, anxious and unhappy with the changes in her life, discovers a world of little people called Nutfolk living in the woods around her new home.

After her parents divorce and she moves to the country with her mother, fourth-grader Willa Jane, anxious and unhappy with the changes in her life, discovers a world of little people called Nutfolk living in the woods around her new home.