Amy learned a lot in her babysitting course, but not what to do if two thugs show up, intent on kidnapping. Armed with misinformation and a weapon, the men take Amy and little Kendra to a remote cabin
Working on a class project on Mount Saint Helens, Warren and Betsy are accidentally sent through time to the day of the volcano's eruption and must outrace a billowing cloud of volcanic ash. Reprint.
A new Pete the Cat mystery in paperback for the first time! Alex and his friends witness a pig falling from a speeding red truck. Working with the police and an animal rescue group, the kids get permi
Although able to understand English, Pete the cat is unable to speak it and so must find a clever way to communicate with Alex about the men who burglarized his home and kidnapped his little brother,
If there?s a mystery to be solved, Pete?s your man. Er, your cat. Pete?s a cat, specifically, Alex?s cat. And since Alex and his family moved into a new housing development, Pete is Alex?s only friend
Each day, sixth-grader Rusty feeds a dog that's left chained in the frigid weather with no shelter, food, or water. When he realizes the dog has been injured, he tries to have Animal Control help - bu
Megan's efforts to save some wild cats in an empty field get in the way of an ex-convict's criminal plans, and he kidnaps her, taking a hot air balloon flight that ends in the middle of the wilderness
Oh, BRRRRROTHER! Hi. I'm Julie Welsh. My nine-year-old brother is always cooking up schemes...and I get blamed. Because I'm older. Eleven, to be exact. But Frankie has his good points too, as I told
As soon as Molly arrives at her aunt and uncle's ranch in rural Washington, things start to go very wrong. Her cousin hates her on sight. Her aunt falls into a mysterious coma. Then, left alone on the
Thirteen-year-old Sunny runs away from her current foster parent in search of her twin sister, from whom she was separated ten years earlier. On the way, she'll face a tornado, bullies, and a stray do
Kit never means to steal the bracelet; it is just a dumb mistake. But when she is caught Kit is sentenced to twenty hours of volunteer work at the humane society. Kit knows how it feels to be stuck in
Who is the strange woman in the white car watching Ginger? She appears at Ginger's birthday party, at her school, and in front of her house, but Ginger has never met her before. When she confronts Gin
Matt is missing. Bonnie's brother left his classroom to use thebathroom —and disappeared. A police dog traces his scent to the curb, where he apparently got into a vehicle. But why would Matt go anywh
What Josh thought would be the dullest summer of his life, spent with his eccentric great-aunt, turns chilling when he meets the ghost of a coal miner killed in a mine explosion. Willie has been waiti
When Katie Osborne goes to visit her new friend Shannon Lindstrom, a stranger says Shannon’s at her piano lesson. The next day Shannon is reported missing and Katie is the victim of a hit-and-run driv
When Jonathan and his family go camping on Magpie Island, they look forward to a fun, relaxing weekend. But their fun quickly vanishes when Jonathan, his sister, Abby, and their dog, Moose, find thems
In a tenth anniversary edition of the original, the author describes months spent in a hospital when she was twelve, first struggling to survive a severe case of polio and then slowly learning to walk
AGAINST ALL ODDS Erin Wrenn and her friend David are in big trouble because they refuse to go on a field trip to the Glitter Tent Circus. They wrote a report on the sad lives of circus animals, and d
