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When a string of humiliating events leads to an even greater disaster involving her older brother Lester, Alice McKinley, who is definitely not enamored with the fourth grade, must try to find a way to make things right.

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Abaguchie mania! Caroline Malloy thrills when Wally Hatford tells her that a strange animal called the abaguchie was spotted in their area. Wally warns Caroline not to search alone, but she is bent on finding the abaguchie. Wally and his brothers try to foil the plan. Caroline and her sisters plan to outfox them once and for all.

When a rumor that a madman is loose in town and may be staying at the hotel his parents run, Bernie decides to do some investigating on his own and save his family's livelihood. Reprint.

As Halloween approaches, the three Malloy sisters find themselves continually trying to get even with the four Hatford brothers, who have been playing tricks on them since the Malloys moved from Ohio to West Virginia.

When guests report the presence of a ghost in the 125-year-old hotel Bernie Magruder's father is managing, Bernie begins to believe that ghosts are real. By the author of The Bodies in the Bessledorf Hotel. Reprint. SLJ. AB.

Dead bodies which appear and disappear mysteriously are threatening to lose Sam's father his job as manager of the Besseldorf Hotel. What can be done? How do you find a ghost?

It’s spring break and the only assignment Wally Hatford and Caroline Malloy have is to do something that they have never done before. Wally’s sure that will be a cinch once he hears the great news about the mighty Benson brothers coming to stay for vacation. It will be nonstop action all the way. For starters, the nine Benson and Hatford boys plan on scaring the three Malloy sisters silly by convincing them that their house is haunted. Of course, the boys don’t know that the girls are hard at work plotting their own special surprise welcome. The Bensons don’t know what they’re up against with the Malloy girls. But they soon will.

Meanwhile, everyone in town knows there’s a hungry cougar on the prowl. When the kids decide to take a break from their tricks and join forces in catching the cougar, guess who gets stuck with the scariest job? This will surely be something no one has ever done before.


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Christmas is around the corner and Caroline Malloy and Wally Hatford, sworn enemies, must interview each other for the dreaded class project. Caroline plans to shock Wally in front of the class, and Wally and his brothers find a way to spy on the Malloy girls. The girls vow revenge with a trap the boys won't soon forget.

Once again the Hatford brothers and the Malloy sisters find themselves pitted against each other when embarrassing pictures of the boys turn up in the girls' basement, and the boys try to figure out how to get them back. Reprint.

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Did undertakers Joe and Moe murder the crooked vice president, who absconded with his company's retirement money, so that they could finance their new drive-in viewing window? Or is the VP hiding next door? Once again, Bernie Magruder proves that a first-class bumbler can also be a first-class detective.

The Hatford brothers start a campaign to force their new neighbors, the Malloys, out of town when they learn that the family has all girls--no boys. What the Hatfords don't realize is that the Malloys are as good as causing trouble as they are. Will the boy's pranks start an all-out war? The story continues in the sequel THE GIRLS GET EVEN.

When the Hatford boys and the Molloy girls get involved in another competition, the pressure is on for both teams as the winner of the bottle race down the river will become the queen or king of the day while the losers will be forced to act as their servants.

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Sam attempts to discover who is gassing the assembly-line workers at the parachute factory, the town's largest industry, and traces the culprit to the hotel his own family manages.

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After being robbed and left abandoned on the side of the road, young Josh is thankful to the Melungeons who tend to his wounds in their remote village in the Appalachians, yet soon Josh realizes that something is eerily wrong and begins to fear that leaving the town won't be as easy as he expected. Reprint.

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Staying with a married cousin who is expecting a child, Evie Hutchins gains a new perspective on her family, her values, and her friends.

The 1992 Newbery Medal was awarded to Shiloh, as well as 25 state children's choice awards. "A moving and powerful look at the best and the worst of human nature as well as the shades of gray that color most of life's dilemmas".--Booklist starred review.

There are all kinds of fearful night noises on the backwoods farm where Ellen lives, often by herself because her salesman father travels a lot. But more than anything, Ellen is terrified of their horse, Sleet, who had thrown her brother a year ago and killed him.Then a local boy is kidnapped, and to Ellen the woods are full of devils and demons. One morning she is awakened before dawn by a cry--is it a "night cry" or the cry of the kidnapped child? Does Ellen have the courage to venture out into the dark and find out?

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Lynn's growing conviction that her sister is learning witchcraft from a neighbor reaches its peak when Lynn, her sister, and brother are left for a weekend in the neighbor's charge.

Its scary being the new girl in town. Thats why Josie is so excited about quickly becoming best friends with Sarah. So what if Sarah used to be best friends with Kimberly. Thats over. But Josies troubles begin when she and Sarah accidentally break the leg on Sarahs piano bench. The girls must pay for the repairs. It seems easy to do when they start a plant and pet-sitting business. But Josie never dreamed that a plant, a cat, a dog, and fish could cause so many problems. And what about her best friend Sarah? Is Kimberly trying to come between them? Between pets, plants, and best friends, Josie's in triple trouble.

With strict, old-fashioned Hildegarde Brasscoat hired to baby-sit them, Timothy, Ann, and Douglas John Megglethorp gear up for some super troublemaking. By the author of Night Cry. Reprint. H. K.

Pressured by his family to get into Harvard, high school senior George Richard decides to forego college, and over the next year, while his friends are off at school, George takes on a series of "gopher" jobs and reexamines his life. Reprint. PW.

When his doctor accidentally gives Jonathon's balloon the flu shot intended for Jonathan and Jonathan gets a shot of helium, the little boy is soon floating around town. Reprint. K. AB.

In this fifth book about the intrepid Alice, she faces two problems: she's about to turn 13 and her father is about to turn fifty. Her aunt informs Alice she will be the woman of the house now, and along with this responsibility, Alice must plan for her father's birthday party.

Lynn is more than ever convinced that their neighbor, Mrs. Tuggle, is involved in witchcraft but finds it difficult to convince her family of the old woman's evil.

When Lynn's mother moves into Mrs. Tuggle's house to write, Lynn and her friend, Mouse, become convinced that Mrs. Tuggle is a witch and prepare to face her magic and malice.

The summer before she enters the seventh grade becomes the summer of Alice's first boyfriend, and she discovers that love is about the most mixed-up thing that can possibly happen to you, especially since she has no mother to go to for advice. Reprint.

Eleven-year-old, motherless Alice decides she needs a gorgeous role model who does everything right; and when placed in homely Mrs. Plotkins's class she is greatly disappointed until she discovers it's what people are inside that counts. An ALA Notable Children's Book. Reprint.

Billie Tommie, a ten-year-old Seminole Indian, lives with his family in a chickee on a mangrove island in the Florida Everglades. Billie is the first in his family to attend school. Now he walks in two worlds--the traditonal world of his ancestors and the modern world of teachers, tourists, and schoolmates.Billies grandfather, Abraham, tells him the legends, stories, and rituals that are important to the Seminole people. Abraham says that an honest man who leads a good life will walk the path to the city in the sky when he dies. But Billie wants to learn more about the white man's ways.Caught between two cultures, which path will Billie take?

John, who finds being the oldest child very difficult, keeps his sister out of mischief and his brother out of his hair on a trip to the supermart.

After her first day in junior high, Alice McKinley says, "I can think of at least seven things about seventh grade that stink". But after a week, Alice has decided that maybe junior high isn't so bad. In fact, maybe she can go a whole year being friends with everyone, teachers and students alike. This is before she has her first run-in with Denise "Mack-Truck" Whitlock. Alice, who has survived sixth grade and The Summer of the First Boyfriend, soon discovers that it isn't so easy to be Alice the Likeable. Even her best friends get in the way sometimes. And just when she is sure no one has more problems than she does, she is drawn into the ones her twenty-year-old brother and her widowed father are facing, which seem worse. Thinking a favorite teacher may hold the answer to at least one difficulty, Alice ends up with a bigger mess than ever. She realizes, however, that it is possible to overcome disaster and to find a way out of troubles. Most of all, she discovers, it's good to have a father and a brother who love you and look out for you. In fact, sometimes, having family is almost enough.

The topic of this year's annual fifth grade essay contest is conservation. Andy is determined to walk off with first prize, especially because his rival is his competitive cousin, Jack. Soon Andy is doing research for his essay, "How Beetles, Bugs, and Worms Can Save Money and the Food Supply, Both," which is on ways to prepare and eat insects. Unfortunately, Andy doesn't want to eat any insects himself. How can he tell if his recipes are as tasty as he claims they are?

Alice from "The Agony of Alice" and "Alice in Rapture, Sort Of" returns for another adventure. Now in her second semester of seventh grade, motherless Alice finds herself looking for a female role model. Unsure of who she is or what to do, Alice begins to blindly follow the example of the popular girls in her class. Although she is accepted by this crowd, Alice wonders if they are really the role models she wants.

Maudie, one of a large family growing up in Iowa in the early 1900s, seems to attract nothing but trouble when all she wants is to be noticed for herself; and when a crisis hits the family she finally accomplishes this in the best way possible.

This is the fifth book about Alice who is now 13-years-old. When she takes an overnight train trip with her two best friends, Alice decides she feels most comfortable being '"in-between" rather than acting too grown-up like Pamela or too babyish like Elizabeth.

Jimmy Novak is excited about spring vacation. He and his club, the "Rough, Tough, and Terrible" Thokers, are planning to turn the Novaks garage into a clubhouse for the whole week. But everything changes when Jimmys cousin David comes to stay after his mothers surgery. Jimmy and the Thonkers are brave, and David is scared of everything.Jimmy thinks David will ruin the Thonkers' secret plans. Then something happens on the river--something that helps Jimmy learn the real meaning of courage.

Junior high school student Nick must face the fact that his father is plunging fast into serious mental illness.

Having won Shiloh for himself, Marty realizes that he still cannot trust the dog's reckless and alchoholic former owner, and the boy fears that Judd will open fire on Shiloh come hunting season.

Newbery medal winner Phyllis Reynolds Naylor's amusing tale of faults and forgiveness is perfectly complemented by Rosalind Charney Kaye's charming collage illustrations. Full color.

The second book in the trilogy introduced by "Shiloh", the Newbery Medal-winning classic. Even though Shiloh now belongs to Marty, his worries are far from over. Judd, the dog's original owner, is back to drinking hard and being reckless with his rifle.

While living on his family's ranch in Wyoming where he hopes to someday be a cowboy, Ryan faces conflicts with his older brother who becomes involved in a militia movement.

Sarah longs to find a way to be someone special, and when her friend's Chinese restaurant needs customers, she finds a special way to save it.

August days are hot and the pool is the place to be. But not for Alice who's afraid of deep water--and afraid to admit it. Her friends begin to conquer their fears: Elizabeth overcomes her aversion to kissing; Pamela trades a secure boyfriend for a not-so-sure one. Everybody expects Alice to learn to swim. What's she to do? Others in the series include Alice in April and Alice in Between.

A series of mysterious events and the strange behavior of a group of their schoolmates convince Lynn and her best friend, Mouse, that the destructive power of a witch recently killed in a fire is still very much alive. Reprint.

T.R. and his older brother Danny are more than dismayed when their mother decides to move to Rosemary Acres. Everything is too perfect there and they have strict rules that forbid just about anything a normal kid might want to do. When Danny falls in with Paul, it's up to T.R. to be the watchdog and keep his brother from getting into a whole lot of trouble.

Deeply involved in her tasks and activities at high school, Alice realizes that there is little time left for her boyfriend, Patrick, yet when Patrick suddenly becomes interested in Penny, Alice knows she must end the relationship and start making a life for herself without him in it. Reader's Guide available. Reprint.

Chrissa's father disappeared three years ago and no one will tell her where he is. Thoughts of her father and a desperate need for his approval cause Chrissa's mother to send Chrissa to live with her grandmother in the country. When she finally discovers the truth--that her father is in jail--she realizes that she has the power to be free to be herself.

Having always lived the life of a good girl, Alice is tired of her wholesome reputation and decides now is the time to make changes that are sure to shock those who thought they knew everything there was to know about her. Reprint.

Having left home for three weeks to be a camp counselor, Alice is shocked when she comes back to discover how much has changed, such as her mother running off with a fitness instructor, her sister getting deeply involved with a guy, and her father having issues in his new relationship with Sylvia. Reprint.

As the end of summer approaches, the Malloy girls decide they will really try to get along with the Hatford boys before moving back to Ohio, but after all the practical jokes and competitions of the previous year, the boys just do not trust the girls. Reprint.

After she, her older brother, and their father move from Chicago to Maryland, Alice has trouble fitting into her new third grade class, but with the help of some new friends and her own unique outlook, she survives.

Foster Williams, a thirty-two-year-old Chesapeake Bay bridgeworker, offers to raise a sixteen-year-old refugee but the women of their Maryland town insist he marry her first.

In March of 1941, when a severe blizzard suddenly hits Bismarck, North Dakota, a girl trying to save her stranded father and brother inadvertently helps the man who killed her mother four years before.

As he and his family prepare for a picnic at the beach, little Percy is determined to bring along his stuffed animal friends, even though everyone tells him that there is no room, but when he empties out the cooler to store his furry pals, he must find a way to save the picnic!

Set in the hills of rural West Virginia, this is the story of 11-year-old Marty Preston and the dog he sets out to rescue from its abusive owner. Although Marty knows better than to do battle with the foul-tempered Judd Travers, he is unable to stop himself when he discovers that the gentle but frightened beagle he found roaming in the woods has run away from Judd. Although Marty initially returns the dog, he is unable to do so when the dog escapes from him a second time and returns to Marty's gentle care. Knowing that his parents will send the dog right back, Marty builds a pen for his new pet, whom he names Shiloh, and secretly cares for him--hoping, in the meantime, to raise enough money to buy the dog from Judd. However, caring for Shiloh means lying to his friends and family, a situation that causes Marty great pain. A study of human nature, sacrifice, ethics, and the eternal bond between boy and dog, SHILOH won the 1992 Newbery Medal.

Sixth-grader Marty and his family try to help their rough neighbor, Judd Travers, change his mean ways, even though their West Virginia community continues to expect the worst of him.

A view of the Amish today as seen through the lifestyle of a Lancaster County, Pennsylvania family.

Excited about her sixteenth birthday, finally being able to drive, and kissing her boyfriend without braces, Alice feels like she will be practically an adult in a matter of months, yet when she is forced to attend a class on sexuality at the local church by her father, Alice comes to realize that being an adult isn't actually based on a driver's license. Reprint.

Jennifer Jean likes her big green crossed eyes and does not want them changed, but when she goes to kindergarten in September she is a little bit glad that they were straightened.

When Harry Gill's wife dies, he sinks into grief and anger. He is only in his mid-50s, and is far from ready for widowerhood. In fact, he becomes obsessed with finding another woman. Meanwhile, as Harry struggles with the problems posed by his new life, his three grown children have their own troubles.

During a student exchange program, seventh-graders Ivy June Mosely and Catherine Combs share their lives, Kentucky homes, and communities, and find that although their lifestyles are total opposites, they have a lot in common.

It isn't just one bomb in the bus depot, it's two, and one at the pool and even one in front of the Magruder family's Bessledorf Hotel. In each case it seems possible that Bernie Magruder's older sister, Delores, may be trying to get back at the boyfriend who has left her for another. Bernie doesn't want to believe it--but he knows Delores!

In the latest zany escapade of the Bessledorf Hotel's irrepressible Magruder clan, an infamous pirate makes his way to Middleburg, Indiana, to bury his treasure.

When his mother finally returns, Polo is taken aback by the harsh attitude of the woman he once knew and fears what has become of her, yet as he attempts to convince her to stay and settle in, he remains cautious about introducing her to his friends at the Club of Mysteries. Reprint.

During the summer between eighth and ninth grades, Alice and her friends Pamela and Elizabeth decide to improve themselves through exercise.

Although excited about her father's pending marriage to Sylvia Summers, Alice begins to worry that she is losing her special place in the family as the festivities of the event seem to become the most important thing to everyone around her. Reader's Guide available. Reprint.

After breaking up with her boyfriend, Alice immerses herself in the school play and soon finds that she no longer has time for her friends, Pamela and Elizabeth, and as she tries to understand their growing resentment, she also tries to discover the identity of her secret admirer and learn why her new friend Faith refuses to break up with her abusive boyfriend.

Marco and Polo return for further hair-raising adventures in the Club of Mysteries House cats Marco and Polo have recovered from their harrowing adventures outside in The Grand Escape during which they were successfully inducted into the Club of Mysteries, led by the fierce Texas Jake. But now each of the cats in the club must reprove his allegiance to Texas Jake, who had been mauled by Bertram the Bad at the end of the last book. Despite the growing tension between Texas and Marco, Marco and Polo offer to retrieve something that will help Texas Jake's wounds to heal. Unfortunately the medicinal plant comfrey is to be found only at the town junkyard, smack in the middle of the turf controlled by Steak Knife and his Over-the-Hill Gang. And Steak Knife has a tricky agenda of his own. The Healing of Texas Jake is anthropomorphic fiction at its very best by an author who has proven her versatility and strength in all genres.

In order to get the big bedroom, Bernie needs to get his sister out of the house and so, with the help of his friends, begins the work of finding Mr. Right to set things into motion. Reader's Guide available. Reprint.

Thirteen-year-old Alice sets long- and short-term priorities for her life as she experiences the complexities of young love.

When he sees posters warning the local residents of the Indiana Aztec bats and hears the church bells play an unusual hymn over and over again, Bernie knows that something isnÆt right and so gathers his friends to solve the mystery. Reprint.

The people of Middleburg search for buried treasure around Bessledorf Hill and the Bessledorf Hotel.

A deliciously funny story about four children who find themselves babysitting the world's ugliest chicken, by the well-known Newbery Award-winning author.

Eighth-grader Alice has lots of questions about sex, relationships, prejudice, and change.

Frustrated by the narrowness of his West Virginia mining town, a boy with a talent for woodcarving yearns for a different way of life.

Details the career of one writer from stories composed in grade school through first published pieces to novels written to date.

Discusses characterization, viewpoint, structure, plot, diaglogue suspense, style, foreshadowing, motivation, conflict, and sources of ideas.

When the klutzy Amy Audrey Perkins is as good as gold at Aunt Linda's wedding, her relatives are so surprised that they have an accident.

Knowing that the Hatfield boys are up to their tricks again, the Malloy girls are eager to find out what they are plotting in order to turn the tables on them in a surprising way, so they must find a way to bribe one of the boys to get the information they need. Teacher's Guide available. Reprint.

After the death of her parents, Judith goes to live with her uncle who instructs her to bring nothing green with her upon her arrival, yet Judith disobeys and secretly keeps a green velvet frame in her room causing a resting spirit to stir once again.

Beset by an enemy from within, Dan searches for the gypsies he once knew in York and is led inexplicably into a calamity involving the Black Death in a hostile country among frightened and superstitious people.

Something is wrong at the Bessledorf Hotel as bodies, both dead and alive, are moved in and out of the establishment, so Bernie decides to take the case to find out the real scoop of what is taking place.

A self-help approach to making and getting along with friends, exploring the purpose of friendship, understanding the feelings and behavior of oneself and others, and changing one's behavior.

The Depression causes Ruth's dream of college and a teaching career to be no longer certain, but at the same time it enables her to grow as a person as she encounters others in difficult situations.

Twelve-year-old Eddie decides to go into business for himself with two friends and soon discovers that a business is not a simple thing.

The Malloy girls and the Hatford boys try to outdo each other in a quest to earn money and choose how to participate in the annual Buckman, West Virginia, Strawberry Festival. Reprint.

Brothers Ted and Nory Solomon had always relied on each other, but while attending summer camp they take a new look at their relationship in light of their parents' upcoming divorce.

A final prequel to the Alice series presents fifth-grade Alice as she gets answers to curious questions and comes to terms with what she learns about friendships, babies, her body, and life in general.

Amos Bear finds a welcome supply of cinnamon buns at the house of near-sighted old Sadie, and when he leaves he leaves a warm chair for Sadie to enjoy.

Wally Hatford dreams of long lazy days far away from school and Caroline Malloy. But Wally, the best speller among the Hatford brothers, gets roped into helping them with a summer newspaper project that will earn the twins school credit.
What does that get Wally? When he hears scratching noises coming from Oldakers’ bookstore cellar, Mr. Oldaker trusts him to keep a secret that could turn into a scoop for their newspaper. Wally worries that the secret may be too scary to keep to himself.
What’s worse, the Malloy girls have horned in on the newspaper. If there’s one person Wally won’t spill his secret to, it’s nutty Caroline Malloy. No matter what it is!


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Disturbed by a poorly-planned, approaching civil defense drill and by the circumstances of his mother's death, a high school senior decides to take action.

After being stranded on a deserted island with a gang of bank robbers who they are certain want to kill them, Roxie and the other children must turn to the book of Lord Thistlebottom for much-needed advice for getting out of the dangerous situation they suddenly find themselves in.

Sarah Simpson's family thinks she is extraordinary, but she feels ordinary and is anxious to find a special quality that sets her apart; devising a plan to solve her "problem," she jumps at an opportunity to help the parents of a classmate whose Chinese restaurant isn't doing well, with interesting consequences.... By a Newbery Award-winning author. Reprint.

Sarah Simpson likes helping people solve their problems, so she helps her best friend Peter find a pet that's just right for him and his granny Belle. By the creators of Anyone Can Eat Squid!

After being stranded on a deserted island with a gang of bank robbers who they are certain want to kill them, Roxie and the other children must turn to the book of Lord Thistlebottom for much-needed advice for getting out of the dangerous situation they suddenly find themselves in. Reprint.

Fifteen-year-old Beth Herdon lives in a trailer with her family in the Appalachian region of West Virginia. Determined to have a future that entails more than just housework and childbearing, Beth sees a way out when she develops her skills as a typist. Envisioning a career as a secretary, Beth is torn, however, when her 22-year-old boyfriend asks her to marry him.

When Josh is teased by his brother for holding Beth Malloy's hand in school, he proclaims that he is simply doing it to spy on the girls, but his plan isn't as fool-proof as he thought and he is soon on the receiving end of a shocking surprise. Reprint.

In the second semester of her junior year of high school, Alice gets back together with her old boyfriend Patrick, gets a promotion on the student newspaper, and remains a reliable, trusted friend.

Alone at a remote wilderness campsite, Doug and his older brother, Gordie, have one of their endless fights, and Gordie stomps off. When days pass and Gordie doesn't return, Doug must confront his own fear to rescue his brother, who's trapped on a dangerous ridge. "A solid action story, tense and involving".-- Publishers Weekly.

Willie counts the ducklings--from one to eleven--parading outside behind their mother, while he and Mom eat lunch at the motel restaurant. When Willie counts again he realizes that, one by one, the ducklings are disappearing. When no one will listen to Willie, he takes matters into his own hands to solve the mystery of the disappearing ducks. Full color.

Convinced that she's boring, 13-year-old Alice experiments with a whole new image but ends up being "herself, the same girl readers have loved in eight previous books" ("Kirkus Reviews") by the Newbery Award-winning author of "Shiloh".

During a student exchange program, seventh-graders Ivy June Mosely and Catherine Combs share their lives, Kentucky homes, and communities, and find that although their lifestyles are total opposites, they have a lot in common.

In this effervescent eighth entry in the wildly popular series, Alice isn't really getting married. But she and her boyfriend, Patrick, are thinking about it--for a health class assignment. And as she and her classmates research the nitty gritty details of planning a wedding they discover that being truly grown-up can be much more complicated than they ever imagined.

During a student exchange program, seventh-graders Ivy June Mosely and Catherine Combs share their lives, Kentucky homes, and communities, and find that although their lifestyles are total opposites, they have a lot in common. Simultaneous.

This warm story captures the fun and anticipation of the Christmas season, as well as the feelings of a small child who wants to set things right. Full-color illustrations.

With his dad's help, Kevin overcomes his fear of the "King of the Playground" who has threatened to tie him to the slide, put him in a deep hole, or put him in a cage with bears.