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The little red pen

When a little red pen accidentally falls into the waste basket while trying to correct papers all by herself, the other classroom supplies must cooperate to rescue her.

The strange affair of Adelaide Harris

2001
An experiment to see if a wolf will adopt an abandoned baby turns into a desperate situation for two schoolboys in early nineteenth-century England when the child is recovered by well-meaning passersby.

Boys and girls like you and me

stories
2010
A collection of eleven stories by American writer Aryn Kyle in which she examines the lives of young protagonists who are disappointed by life and subject themselves to torment and heartache.

Island of the sequined love nun

2004
Tucker Case makes a living as a pilot for a cosmetics corporation; but when he crashes his boss's pink plane, he tries to conceal his identity by piloting shady secret missions for an unscrupulous medical missionary.

The rules of attraction

1998
Three students, Lauren, Sean, and Paul, form a love triangle amidst the drinking and drugs in a small, affluent, liberal-arts college in New England.

Sammy's house

2007
Sammy Joyce accepts a position as a health-care advisor to the President and soon finds herself knee-deep in the middle of a White House scandal involving alcohol and a secret deal with an Indian pharmaceutical company that threatens to tear apart the entire administration.

I didn't do my homework because...

A humorous story about the absurd excuses for not doing homework.

The princess and the pea-ano

1997
In this humorous retelling of the traditional fairy tale, the prince is forced to place increasingly large peas under the mattresses of the candidates for his wife in order to find someone sensitive enough to be his bride.

The three little pigs and the new neighbor

2014
A wolf moves next door to a pig, who runs in terror to his brother's house when the wolf, who is choking on pepper, comes over to ask for some water. Includes puzzles and notes for adults.

The princess and the frozen peas

2014
A beautiful princess tries to avoid marrying an ugly old king by pretending to sleep well each night despite the best efforts of the king's servants to disturb her rest with peas and other things that start with the letter P. Includes puzzles and notes for adults.

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