A sophisticated New Yorker returns unwillingly to her roots when her mother sends her for a summer with her grandmother Quanamina off the Carolina coast.
A sophisticated New Yorker returns unwillingly to her roots when her mother sends her for a summer with her grandmother Quanamina off the Carolina coa...
An engaging, often humourous, new-kid-at-school story combined with a spooky and suspenseful mystery in a can't-put-down novel guaranteed to delight readers ages 8-12. It was bad enough that Courtney's mom, recently divorced from her latest husband, has moved the family all the way from Vermont to Florida; but when she rented a rattletrap house on Cemetery Street, it was just too much Fifteen-year-old Courtney is used to being uprooted, to being the practical member of the family, to looking out for her half brother, Bucky. She's smart and sensible and knows how to stay invisible at each new...
An engaging, often humourous, new-kid-at-school story combined with a spooky and suspenseful mystery in a can't-put-down novel guaranteed to delight r...
Life is hard enough for Abby without a ghost. Her father, a soldier, is missing in action, and she and her mother have had to move in with relatives in rural New York State, far from her Florida home. Her cousin Chad and his friends seem to hate her, too. Then she sees the ghost of Felicia Stratton, a girl her own age who died many years before, waiting for her own father to come home from war. Is her appearance a warning? Abby must discover the ghost's secret before it's too late--and she'll need Chad's help. Blending evocative period details with thrilling suspense, Brenda Seabrooke has...
Life is hard enough for Abby without a ghost. Her father, a soldier, is missing in action, and she and her mother have had to move in with relatives i...
Stonewolf: At the Orphanage, all Nicholas ever knew was fear, silence, and hunger. He lay in wait in the bone-rattling cold, trembling, wanting nothing but to avoid Matron and the daily beatings. Nicholas didn't know how long he'd been there, how old he was when he came, or even where he had come from. Nobody spoke his language. One day a stranger named Ranik arrives to whisk him away to a secluded castle. But Nicholas quickly learns that he can't trust his new captors any more than the people at the Orphanage. He is a prisoner and is being kept for a purpose: to unlock secrets buried in his...
Stonewolf: At the Orphanage, all Nicholas ever knew was fear, silence, and hunger. He lay in wait in the bone-rattling cold, trembling, wanting nothin...
When her family moves to the Virginia countryside, eleven-year-old Melinda, her older brother, and their new friend Dan work together to solve the mystery of a Civil War-era ghost who is haunting their house.
When her family moves to the Virginia countryside, eleven-year-old Melinda, her older brother, and their new friend Dan work together to solve the mys...
India was all the things Laurie had heard about and more - too much more. She couldn't process the seething, glistening, teeming, glaring melee. She needed to rethink this spur-of-the-moment trip the summer after graduation when a crime is committed in front of her and nobody even notices. Nothing had prepared Laurie for this world - not movies or TV shows or diner at tandoori restaurants. Laurie is on her own in a whirlwind of travels across exotic India joined in her quest by Graham taking a semester off from college to experience India while his uncle is stationed at the U.S.Embassy
India was all the things Laurie had heard about and more - too much more. She couldn't process the seething, glistening, teeming, glaring melee. She n...
Things had changed a lot in Alastair's life since he found the little blue dragon he named Spike. Now it was time to start back to school and Alastair was faced with entering the fourth grade with the dreaded Ms. Cassowary as his teacher. All his lucky clothes on the first day didn't help and things got worse as the weeks went on. On top of his school troubles, his pet dragon was depressed because Alastair was gone all day. Then there was the mysterious face peering in the window. And why was Alastair being followed when he took Spike for a walk? He seeks help from his best friend, Josh, and...
Things had changed a lot in Alastair's life since he found the little blue dragon he named Spike. Now it was time to start back to school and Alastair...
Alastair McKnight and his Uncle George set off on a camping trip to the Green Slime Swamp to search for proof that the legendary Lizardman actually exists Alastair brings his best friend and smuggles his pet dragon, Spike. To the boys horror, their dragon of a teacher Ms. Cassowary joins them along with her pesky relative. Alastair's next-door neighbor enemy soon turns up and so does a mystery--does the Lizardman really live in the Green Slime Swamp or will Spike, Alastair and the gang discover something even more sinister going on?
Alastair McKnight and his Uncle George set off on a camping trip to the Green Slime Swamp to search for proof that the legendary Lizardman actually ex...
