Woodruff, Elvira

The mummy that Andrew creates for his fifth grade project seems to have special powers and helps him to understand his feelings about himself, his dead mother, and his stepbrother, who he calls Mr. Gifted.

When Mrs. McClosky's three rambunctious boys wake up one day and find they have turned into monkeys, Mrs. McClosky takes them to live at the zoo where they are a big hit.

In the midst of a backyard campout, ten-year-old Matt and four other children find themselves transported back to the time of George Washington and the American Revolution, where they begin to live out American history firsthand and learn the sober realities of war.

During summer vaction in West Virginia, eleven-year-old Jenna quickly makes friends with Angel Always. When Angel learns that Jenna's five-year-old brother, Nelson, can't talk, she suggests taking him to the haunted marble factory late at night. That's where Angel and Jenna think they've seen a ghost with yellow wrinkly fingers and an arm "with lots of goose bumps all over it." Angel is convinced Nelson will be shocked into speaking at the spooky factory. Jenna's scared but agrees when Zack, another visitor, says he'll join them. But no one could have predicted that the older kids would meet the ghost again before dark and that Nelson would mysteriously disappear.

The eleven-year-old son of the Ravenmaster at the Tower of London befriends a Jacobite rebel being held prisoner there.