Messner, Kate

Believing his long-absent father is missing and leaving clues behind through geocaching, Zig, thirteen, relies on his love of electronics, a garage sale GPS unit, and his best friend, Gianna, to search for answers.

During a cross country ski trip through the winter woods, adventurers can discover all sorts of animals living under the snow.

Gianna has less than one week to complete her leaf project if she wants to compete in the upcoming cross-country sectionals, but issues like procrastination, disorganization--and her grandmother's declining health--seem destined to keep her from finishing.

"With help from her Grandma Barb, Marty builds a habitat for worms in her school cafeteria as part of the Save the Earth Project"--Publisher.

Fergus the class pet stows away in a backpack when the human kids in Miss Maxwell's classroom leave for a field trip to the museum without him.

Believing his long-absent father is missing and leaving clues behind through geocaching, Zig, thirteen, relies on his love of electronics, a garage sale GPS unit, and his best friend, Gianna, to search for answers.

"This time the mysterious box transports the golden retriever Ranger back to the shipyards of Belfast in 1912, where a ship is being prepared for her maiden voyage, and when he saves young Patrick Murphy from being crushed by falling boards, Ranger expects to be transported home; when he is not, he knows that somehow his job is not finished--but then, Ranger has never heard of the Titanic, and knows nothing of the fate that awaits Patrick, and all the other people on board"--Provided by publisher.

From multiple perspectives, tells of a time capsule project and the middle schoolers who contribute, including future journalist Nora Tucker and newcomer Elidee Jones, whose brother is in the local prison.

In a story that mixes fantasy with realism, Charlie--who is constantly ignored by her family--sees her life change dramatically when she goes ice-fishing one day and finds a wish-granting fish.

When the original Star Spangled Banner is stolen, seventh-graders Anne, Jos?, and Henry, all descendants of the Silver Jaguar Society, pursue suspects on airport carts and through baggage handling tunnels while stranded at a Washington, D.C., airport during a snowstorm.