SEARCH FOR THE SILVER SWAMP MONSTER A Griffin Ghostley Adventure - Book #1 For readers ages 10 - 13 Sixth grader Griffin Ghostley has a lot on his mind today. One intriguing map. Three head-scratching clues. Oh, and a water-dripping, vine-wrapped swamp monster out to defeat him. Can Griffin solve the three clues in time to help him unlock a mysterious vault in the abandoned Kensington Circle Corporation building that is the key to everything? With the help of Mindy Mayhew, his friend and classmate, and his three canine companions, he'll certainly try. But first they must follow the map to an...

In 1966, eight-year-old Jack Mason glanced up at a shooting star while building a snow castle in his backyard on Christmas night. Now in 2048 at age ninety, he finally learns what resulted from such a trivial occurrence. Gloria Grant, a new resident at the Harbor View Retirement Home, tells Jack that she would never have been born if he hadn't seen that shooting star eighty-two years ago. But Jack is skeptical since he has known Gloria for only three months. So begins A Christmas Castle, a heartwarming tale of two ordinary people caught up in a conversation about distant memories and...

Gabriel mouse and his friends enjoy a carefree existence in the field along the country road-until the night of the wild summer storm When a fiery bolt of lightning destroys an abandoned barn across the road, their lives are changed forever. But was the barn really abandoned after all? Rumors have always existed of green-eyed beasts living there, but the mice had never seen them and so never believed in them. Until now. Six creatures have fled the burning barn like shadows in the night, secretly crossing the road into Gabriel's field during the storm, and now live in the nearby woods....