Stanley, George Edward

In 1922, thirteen-year-old Woodrow Harper and his recently-widowed mother move to his father's childhood home in Lawton, Oklahoma, where he is torn between the "right people" of the Ku Klux Klan and those who encourage him to follow the path of his "nigra-loving" father.

When Stevie Marsh leaves for his stay at Camp Viper, he believes it is a camp to learn about "Viper" computer software.

When he finds a clue to a mystery in his tree house, Todd enlists the help of his third-grade classmates to identify the trespasser who had left it there.

Noelle and her friend Todd decide to investigate when her dog Rover is unjustly accused of tearing up Mrs. Ruston's tomato plants.

Third-grader Todd, suffering from a run of bad luck, brightens up when he learns that the unit on spiders he has been forced into at school--Todd hates spiders--may actually teach him a way to find the thief of his beloved baseball card collection.

Noelle and Todd hope to impress their new third grade teacher by being the first to use his clues to figure out who sent an anonymous note to another classmate.