juvenile fiction

Marley causes trouble for his family when they try to safely transport their award-worthy pumpkin to the fair.

When Lucy the beagle goes to a lake with Bobby and his family, she does not want to go in the water and, instead, has an adventure on her own.

A little girl hears the sounds of nature all around her when she follows a butterfly into a meadow.

Two brothers spend a year attending a one-room schoolhouse on the frontier.

Auki, a young member of the Tehuelche tribe in Patagonia, wants to prove himself as a hunter but when he sets out on his own to face the puma, he stumbles upon a sacred cave and its guardian.

Nellie Sue, who fancies herself a real cowgirl, wants a horse for her birthday, but she discovers that a brand new bicycle--her first--takes almost as much taming as a filly.

Henry tries to help his tennis partner Rocky train so they can win the doubles trophy, while also working on a history project with Jazz, and worries his efforts will not pay off.

While visiting an old castle in England, Samantha and Nellie solve mysteries involving a ghost and some missing rare books.

When two best friends, a giant and an elf, grow Christmastown's holiday tree, disaster strikes.

In 1715 Italy, eight-year-old Anna Maria Lombardini arrives at a Venice orphanage with little but the special violin her father made for her, but when her teacher, Antonio Vivaldi, favors her over a fellow student, the beloved instrument winds up in a canal. Includes glossary and historical note.