juvenile fiction

Polarhog takes his reluctant best friend on a walk while a surprise is brewing.

Determined to focus on work rather than books, as his father had, twelve-year-old Patrick Waters leaves Belfast as a steward on the Titanic, but the very wealthy Harry Widener arranges to tutor him, drawing Patrick into association with thieves seeking Harry's very rare edition of Francis Bacon's Essays.

Before becoming the first female private investigator in Botswana, eight-year-old Precious Ramotswe tracks down a thief who has been stealing her classmates' snacks.

Nick, Carter, and Angelo, who are all very interested in monsters and Halloween, visit an aunt and discover a cursed amulet that turns Nick into a zombie, and although the situation seems fun at first, the boys soon find themselves crossing paths with strange creatures on their quest to reverse the curse.

Rabbit makes a list of the things he loves about Pig, but needs Pig's help deciding what to write.

After spending weeks making valentines for all of her family and friends, self-proclaimed fairy princess Gerry takes the wrong folder to school and must find another way to tell her classmates how they sparkle.

Rufus is visiting his Grammy and he encounters a totem in the adjacent woods that turns him into a Bigfoot and he becomes the enemy of a wolf pack that wants the totem.

While strolling home through the woods one evening, a young boy happens upon a rollicking dancing party in Bugtown.

Lily, a garden-talent fairy, finds an unusual seed in the forest, plants it in her garden, and hopes that she will not be forced to uproot the plant it produces.

Contains two Hardy Boys adventures, including "The Tower Treasure," in which a dying criminal confesses that his loot has been stashed "in the tower," leading the young sleuths to an astonishing discovery; and "The House on the Cliff," in which the brothers search for the truth when their father disappears while investigating a mystery surrounding a vacant house rumored to be either haunted or an abode for criminals.