cincinnati (ohio)

An all-American girl with Chinese ancestors and a new immigrant from China find little in common when they meet in their fourth grade classroom, but they are both missing their best friends and soon discover other connections.

Ruthie Smithens doesn't mind being "goofy Ruthie" if it makes her best friend, Kit Kittredge, smile and forget about the hardships of the Depression, but when Ruthie finds out that the Kittredges are going to be evicted, she makes up her mind to help.

Wally & Cheyenne Shluffmuffin are back to the clutches of the show-tune happy Hortense Jolly at the Jolly Days Orphanage where another odd adventure ensues.

George Lankford, a fifteen-year-old in early nineteenth-century Cincinnati whose main interests include creating a steam engine and avoiding a friendship with the badly scarred new boy, Charles Lidell, finds his life radically changed when an earthquake hits town.

A modern-day girl finds herself in 1933 Cincinnati, Ohio, and as she and Kit experience life during the Great Depression, the reader is invited to choose how Kit might help her family and others who are less fortunate.

When Kit's family has to take in boarders, it seems as if they may be able to keep their house although her father lost his business, but the changes put a strain on Kit's friendship with Ruthie, especially as Kit spends her days helping cranky Uncle Hendrick.

An all-American girl with Chinese ancestors and a new immigrant from China find little in common when they meet in their fourth grade classroom, but they are both missing their best friends and soon discover other connections.

"Ruthie Smithens, a girl who loves fairy tales and happy endings, doesn't mind being 'goffy Ruthie' if it makes her best friend, Kit Kttredge, smile and forget about the hardships of the Depression. But when Ruthie finds out that the Kittredges are going to be evicted from their house, she makes up her mind to help..."--P. [4] of cover.

In the late 1800s, a baseball with strange powers belonging to their late father works wonders for three children and a travelling baseball team which must raise $10,000.

Having been reunited with their zombie father only to have him turn into a vampire after drinking an experimental elixir of life, the ten-year-old Shluffmuffin twins continue to try to elude the giant ants who want to enslave all humans.