Kehret, Peg

After losing an acting role and fighting with her alcoholic stepfather, Kit is arrested for shoplifting and ordered to work, as part of her sentence, at an animal shelter.

Apprehensive about spending the summer in Washington State with his Aunt Ethel when his parents get an overseas job, twelve-year-old Josh soon finds adventure when he meets the ghost of a coal miner.

Sixth-grader Emmy and her classmates start a secret community service project to help a hungry family, but soon Emmy finds herself involved in a home burglary ring operated by the family's neighbor.

A series of burglaries in their quiet community upsets Alex's family, particularly his younger brother Benjie, but the bad guys are no match for the very protective family cat and Benjie's "spy" skills.

When twelve-year-old Shannon is kidnapped by a psychopath, her new friend, Katie, finds her life in danger when she unknowingly becomes the kidnapper's only witness.

While visiting the Oakwood Nursing Center, Rosie and Kayo ignore the ramblings of one of the patients who keeps talking about a man with a gun, but when they see on the news that someone has been shot in the house across from the Center, they realize the elderly man is a witness to the crime.

Twelve-year-old Ellen and her younger brother Corey are excited about their overnight campout at the zoo, until they discover that they are locked inside with a desperate escaped convict.

Rosie and Kayo see a man snatch an eaglet from its nest and they attempt to follow him and free the eaglet when they become lost.

A collection of monologs for use in junior high and high school drama classes.