Examines the Reconstruction period in the South at the end of the American Civil War and discusses how the westward expansion between 1865 and 1900 effected the landscape and the Native Americans who were forced off their land.
Eight-year-old spy Adam Sharp pursues the very short Ambassador of Barkastan, who has stolen a top secret computer program, DOGBARK, that will let him understand the language of dogs.
After a horoscope predicts that something weird will happen at her slumber party, Judy suspects that the two strange girls who turn up uninvited are actually aliens.
Sharyn and Charlotte prepare for their beach vacation by taking swimming lessons at a new marine water pool, but they are frightened when an angry escaped shark gets into the pool and tries to bite Sharyn.
When Mrs. O'Dell's science experiment with shrinking plants goes awry, her third-grade students find they have become miniature people in a world of giants.
"Someone knocked out Todd and Noelle's friend Pops Verner, the night watchman at the department store, and stole his treasured pocket watch. He's pretty sure the robber is one of the three men who work in the storeroom. But how can he figure out which one ..."--Cover back.
A fictionalized look at Renaissance-era artist and inventor Leonardo da Vinci's youth, which explores his uncle Francesco's influence and his period as an artist's apprentice in Florence.
