fiction

While helping his grandfather herd and shear his flock of sheep on a small island off the coast of Maine, twelveyear-old Gabe encounters a mysterious woman who may be the ghost of a drowned milkmaid.

Taking her overprotected young charge to the public park to broaden his horizons, fourteen year old babysitter Enid enjoys unexpected friendship with a black saxophonist and bag lady until she is charged with kidnapping.

The adventures of Toad, Mole, Rat, and Badger.

The peaceful life of a boy with dyslexia is interrupted when his great-aunt, who has a morbid fascination with ghosts and death omens, moves in.

In England with her mother for a year, dreamy Diana meets an eccentric old man and shares his frustrations and use of the royal family as a means of escape.

Kenny longs to ride a horse like his father and the other cowboys, and finally his sympathetic mother teaches him.

Laurie's letters to her divorced father chronicle her year in the sixth grade and her efforts to enter her school's program for the gifted and talented.

When they discover mysterious hieroglyphics on the back of a photograph encased in an old locket, the three Shadow Beach Treasure Hounds determine to find out what they mean.

The members of the Vulcan club offer sacrifices to their model volcano until the evil spirit of the volcano comes to life.

Norby the robot and his friend Jeff travel to the distant planet of Izz and help to rescue a lost princess.