Woodruff, Elvira

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.

Marty receives a surprising reply when he writes a letter describing his spirited but sick grandfather to Napoleon Bonaparte.

Two boys investigate an inventor's secret room and travel back in time.

Vacationing on a farm in West Virginia near the haunted glass factory where crazy old Irwin Loop used to make marbles, eleven-year-old Jenna decides to use the place to shock her mute younger brother into talking.

After finding the magic powder again, Noah and his friend Nate shrink to the size of Noah's miniature toy men and have an exciting adventure.

In the midst of a backyard campout, ten-year-old Matt and four other children find themselves transported back into 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.

Forrest Harper, son of the Ravenmaster at the Tower of London, faces a moral dilemma when he befriends Maddy, the daughter of a Jacobite rebel, who has been imprisoned at the Tower, and learns she is slated for execution.